Four tasks · four generalization shifts

Tracks & data.

Four tracks are available: EEG-to-Image, BCI decoding, Sleep onset, and EMG-to-Pose. You may enter one, several, or all four. Explore them below before registering. Each track has its own data, scientific question, evaluation metric, leaderboard, and prize path. All tracks use the same reproducibility audit.

Explore the tracks.

01

Cross-stimulus

EEG-to-IMG

Leaderboard

Visual decoding is most useful when it recognizes novel content rather than a fixed catalogue learned during training. Given a single EEG epoch recorded during natural-image viewing, identify the viewed image by ranking held-out candidates in a frozen DINOv2 embedding space. Training and test images do not overlap, so the cross-stimulus shift probes whether neural representations transfer beyond memorized concepts. Research-grade and consumer-grade datasets add source and hardware variability while keeping the task anchored to time-locked visual responses.Metric: Top-5 retrieval accuracy against the held-out candidate set, with higher scores indicating better performance.Warm-up evaluation: THINGS-EEG2 test set Start kit and baseline: THINGS-EEG2

02

Cross-session

BCI decoding

Leaderboard

A practical BCI must remain reliable as the same user returns on different days without requiring a new calibration each time. Decode one of three cued mental commands: kinesthetic motor imagery, mental calculation, or word association. The longitudinal corpus follows participants across six sessions and varied Graz and BrainHero contexts. Models train on earlier labeled sessions and predict later sessions. This within-user, cross-session design isolates drift from time of day, electrode replacement, physiology, and mental strategy while preserving subject-specific calibration.Metric: Balanced accuracy averaged across subject, session, and context cells, with higher scores indicating better performance.Warm-up evaluation and start kit: Dreyer 2023 test set Published baseline: Stieger 2021Dataset release: New Graz and BrainHero data for training and warm-up evaluation are coming soon. Until then, Dreyer 2023 is the start-kit and warm-up proxy. Stieger 2021 remains the published baseline reference.

03

Seen + unseen participants

Sleep onset

Leaderboard

Reliable sleep-onset estimates from lightweight home headbands could make longitudinal sleep monitoring less dependent on full laboratory polysomnography. The task is to predict, at each point in a continuous four-channel home EEG recording, the number of seconds remaining until the first N2 epoch. Because recordings are collected in everyday settings, models must remain robust to night-to-night variability, motion artifacts, changes in electrode impedance, and occasional channel dropout. Evaluation uses new recordings from participants represented in training as well as recordings from completely unseen participants, testing robustness to both night-to-night and inter-person variability.Metric: Weighted binned mean absolute error (W-bMAE) in seconds, with greater weight on errors closer to sleep onset. Seen-subject and unseen-subject W-bMAE are macro-averaged for the final ranking. Lower scores indicate better performance.Warm-up evaluation: Sleep-EDF test set Start kit and baseline: Sleep-EDFDataset release: New Muse data for training and warm-up evaluation are coming soon. Until then, Sleep-EDF is the proxy for both.

04

Cross-user

EMG-to-Pose

Leaderboard

Translating wrist muscle activity into hand motion is a core challenge for wearable control systems that must work beyond a calibrated laboratory setup. Predict trajectories of 20 hand-joint angles from 16-channel wrist sEMG recorded during everyday movement. Evaluation includes users and movement stages never seen during training, plus unseen combinations of known users and stages. This tests robustness to anatomy, wristband placement, and kinematic context, and asks whether a daily wearable interface can transfer to a new user without person-specific retraining.Metric: Mean absolute angular error across the predicted joint trajectories, reported in degrees, with lower scores indicating better performance.Warm-up evaluation: EMG2Pose user-stage test set Start kit and baseline: EMG2Pose

Development data · warm-up evaluation · sealed evaluation

The data behind every track.

01 · Training data

Build your model on permitted data.

Train in NeuralBench, with the Benchopt competition kit, or through your own permitted pipeline. Both tools support custom models, while the Benchopt kit reuses NeuralBench's public task and data APIs. For broader strategies, EEGDash provides 700+ additional EEG corpora and NeuralBench provides a foundation-model pretraining tutorial. All competition datasets use BIDS.

02 · Warm-up evaluation data

Test submissions on public data.

During warm-up, Codabench scores your model on the public test partitions of THINGS-EEG2, Dreyer 2023, Sleep-EDF, and EMG2Pose, using the splits documented in the NeuralBench competition reference guides. Because the evaluation data are public, leakage is possible and scores are indicative only.

03 · Sealed evaluation data

Compete on private 2026 data.

The track leaders' private cohorts are uploaded to Codabench only for the sealed phase. Their examples and labels remain hidden, and only sealed scores determine the final ranking.

Track Dataset Competition use Modality Participants Hours Channels Sampling Size
Track 01 THINGS-EEG1 EEG 50 46h 63/128 1000 Hz 44 GB
Track 01 THINGS-EEG2 Start kit · Baseline · Warm-up evaluation EEG 10 87h 63 1000 Hz 59 GB
Track 01 Alljoined-1 EEG 8 - 64 512 Hz 4.4 GB
Track 01 Alljoined-1.6M EEG 20 130h 32 256 Hz 7.7 GB
Track 01 Alljoined evaluation cohort NEW 2026 Sealed evaluation EEG 11 - 32 256 Hz -
Track 02 Stieger 2021 Published baseline EEG 62 615h 60 1000 Hz 399 GB
Track 02 Dreyer 2023 Start kit · Warm-up evaluation EEG 87 127h 27 512 Hz 19 GB
Track 02 Zyma 2019 EEG 36 2.4h 21 500 Hz 0.18 GB
Track 02 Scherer 2015 EEG 9 14h 30 256 Hz 1.1 GB
Track 02 Graz and BrainHero EEG NEW 2026 Warm-up evaluation (soon) · Sealed evaluation EEG 20 80h 47 500 Hz -
Track 03 Sleep-EDF Start kit · Baseline · Warm-up evaluation EEG 78 3,849h 5/7 100 Hz 8.7 GB
Track 03 PhysioNet Challenge 2018 EEG 1,983 15,261h 13 200 Hz 431 GB
Track 03 HMC Sleep Staging EEG 151 1200h 4 256 Hz -
Track 03 Muse Sleep-Onset training set NEW 2026 Training · Warm-up evaluation (soon) EEG TBC - 4 128 Hz -
Track 03 Muse Sleep-Onset evaluation set NEW 2026 Sealed evaluation EEG TBC - 4 128 Hz -
Track 04 EMG2Pose Start kit · Baseline · Warm-up evaluation EMG 193 370h 16 2000 Hz -
Track 04 EMG2Pose evaluation cohort NEW 2026 Sealed evaluation EMG TBC - 16 2000 Hz -

Four tracks, four major data releases for 2026: Alljoined, Inria Bordeaux, Muse, and Meta Reality Labs each contribute dedicated data to test models under realistic generalization shifts.

Track 01 · 2026 hidden evaluation cohort

Alljoined evaluation cohort

This new 11-participant cohort is reserved entirely for hidden evaluation. Its direct training counterpart is the public Alljoined-1.6M corpus, recorded with the same Emotiv hardware and natural-image protocol. Evaluation participants, images, and labels remain unseen during training. Provided by Alljoined.

Track 02 · 2026 training + hidden evaluation dataset

Graz and BrainHero EEG

This self-contained longitudinal dataset provides both training and hidden evaluation data. 20 participants each complete 6 sessions across 3 cued commands. Recordings comprise 47 channels: 43 EEG, 2 EMG, and 2 EOG. All sessions are labeled for ten training participants. For the remaining ten evaluation participants, sessions 1 to 3 provide labeled calibration data and sessions 4 to 6 form the hidden test set. Provided by Inria Bordeaux.

Track 03 · 2026 matched training + hidden evaluation datasets

Muse Sleep-Onset EEG

Two matched datasets use the same four-channel, 128 Hz Muse hardware, home-recording protocol, and first-N2 target. Number of participants TBC across the training and hidden-evaluation cohorts, with multiple recordings per participant. Hidden evaluation combines new recordings from participants represented in training with recordings from completely unseen participants. Provided by Muse.

Track 04 · 2026 hidden evaluation cohort

EMG2Pose evaluation cohort

This new cohort is reserved entirely for hidden evaluation. Its direct training counterpart is the public EMG2Pose dataset, and both follow the same protocol pairing 16-channel wrist sEMG with 20 UmeTrack joint angles. Evaluation covers unseen users, movement stages, and user-stage combinations. Provided by Meta Reality Labs.

Ready to train and submit your model?

Develop in NeuralBench for its neuro-specific model-evaluation environment, in Benchopt for direct integration with the competition Solver, or in your own permitted pipeline. Every route ends with the same Codabench submission contract. For active warm-up and sealed evaluation details, read the Track description on Codabench. For the submission contract and uploads, use Get Started → Submission Guide and My Submissions. Original dataset licenses and competition rules remain in force.