Abstract:Sleep physiology arises from the coordinated dynamics of the central nervous system (CNS) and autonomic nervous system (ANS), as reflected by multimodal polysomnography signals including EEG, EOG, EMG, ECG, and respiration. However, existing sleep foundation models often fuse heterogeneous biosignals in a topology-agnostic manner, overlooking their physiological organization. We introduce Omni-Sleep, a sleep foundation model that uses the CNS/ANS partition as a physiological prior for topology-constrained representation learning. Omni-Sleep learns structured representations through three objectives: intra-system consistency, which captures shared subsystem-level factors within neural and cardio-respiratory signals; inter-system synchronization, which aligns subsystem trajectories to model brain--body dynamics; and latent-space masked temporal modeling, which captures long-horizon sleep dynamics. Pre-trained on over 100,000 hours of multi-center multimodal PSG data, Omni-Sleep is evaluated on sleep staging and multi-disease classification. Across datasets and modality-ablation settings, Omni-Sleep outperforms strong foundation-model baselines, showing improved label efficiency, cross-dataset generalization, and robustness to missing modalities. These results highlight the value of physiological hierarchy for generalizable sleep representation learning. Code is available at https://github.com/AutoBrain-sleep/OmniSleep.
Abstract:Electroencephalography (EEG) supports a variety of brain-computer interface (BCI) tasks ranging from brain-state monitoring to human-LLM interactions. EEG foundation models are emerging, but evaluation remains fragmented due to heterogeneous datasets and nconsistent task protocols. Here, we introduce OmniEEG-Bench, a unified benchmark and downstream task roadmap for EEG foundation models (FMs). It organizes evaluation of EEG FMs into six task families spanning (i) signal reliability, (ii) biometrics and disease, (iii) consciousness and state, (iv) cognition and emotion, (v) naturalistic stimulus decoding, and (vi) motor and interaction, introducing a new generation of tasks not systematically benchmarked in prior EEG FM work. OmniEEG-Bench standardizes model deployment, task definitions, and metrics through a task-card specification, and unifies 54 EEG datasets with consistent evaluation protocols. We benchmark 10 representative EEG foundation models and report a leaderboard that covers diverse evaluation settings. Both pretraining dataset diversity and model size are significantly associated with better average ranks across datasets, revealing scaling-law behavior in EEG foundation models (Figure 1). These results suggest that scaling EEG foundation models requires not only larger architectures but also broader and more diverse pretraining data. The benchmark code is available at https://github.com/ncclab-sustech/omni-eegbench.git.