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-subject + 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. The sealed final uses participants and images absent from the public development data, testing cross-subject and cross-stimulus transfer. Warm-up isolates the unseen-image shift on THINGS-EEG2. 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 Sealed evaluation: private 2026 Alljoined cohort Start kit and baseline: THINGS-EEG2

02

Cross-session + cross-participant

BCI decoding

Leaderboard

Decode one of three cued mental commands from EEG: kinesthetic motor imagery, mental subtraction, or word generation. The 2026 cohort follows 20 participants across six sessions using the Graz and BrainHero interfaces. Public training data contain early sessions from ten participants. Sealed evaluation combines later sessions from those participants with recordings from entirely new participants. This tests robustness to session drift and inter-person variability without access to hidden labels.Metric: Balanced accuracy averaged across participant, session, and recording-context cells, with higher scores indicating better performance.Current warm-up and baseline: public PROTEUS three-command task Sealed: later sessions and new participantsDataset: PROTEUS BCI Bordeaux is public on NEMAR and used by the Codabench warm-up.

03

Seen + unseen participants

Sleep onset

Leaderboard

Predict from continuous four-channel home EEG how many seconds remain until the first N2 epoch. During Muse evaluation, five-second windows arrive one at a time in chronological order. Models may use past context within the current recording, and their state is reset before the next recording. Evaluation combines new nights from sleepers represented in training with recordings from entirely unseen sleepers, testing night-to-night and inter-person generalization under motion artifacts, impedance changes, and occasional channel dropout.Metric: Weighted binned mean absolute error (W-bMAE) in seconds, with greater weight on errors closer to sleep onset. Seen-sleeper and unseen-sleeper W-bMAE are macro-averaged for the final ranking. Lower scores indicate better performance.Current warm-up and baseline: public Muse causal-stream task Warm-up score: per-recording W-bMAE mean Sealed: private Muse cohortDataset: Muse Sleep-Onset EEG is public on NEMAR and used by the Codabench warm-up.

04

Cross-user + stage

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: Models return joint angles in radians. Codabench reports their mean absolute angular error in degrees, with lower scores indicating better performance.Warm-up evaluation: EMG2Pose user-stage test set Sealed evaluation: private 2026 Meta Reality Labs cohort 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 public track-specific test partitions. The active split and metric are documented on each Codabench Track description and Scientific FAQ. Because warm-up 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 Closest public match to sealed cohort EEG 20 130h 32 256 Hz 7.7 GB
Track 01 Alljoined evaluation cohort NEW 2026 Sealed evaluation · Same acquisition protocol EEG 11 - 32 256 Hz -
Track 02 Stieger 2021 Alternative public data · Historical reference EEG 62 615h 60 1000 Hz 399 GB
Track 02 Dreyer 2023 Legacy warm-up · Alternative public data 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 PROTEUS BCI Bordeaux NEW 2026 Public training · Warm-up evaluation EEG 10 - 41 500 Hz 1.48 GB
Track 02 PROTEUS BCI Bordeaux evaluation set NEW 2026 Sealed evaluation · Same acquisition protocol EEG Not disclosed Not disclosed Not disclosed Not disclosed Not disclosed
Track 03 Sleep-EDF Legacy warm-up · Historical reference 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 EEG NEW 2026 Public training · Warm-up evaluation EEG 203 157.52h 4 128 Hz 1.08 GB
Track 03 Muse Sleep-Onset evaluation set NEW 2026 Sealed evaluation EEG Not disclosed - 4 128 Hz -
Track 04 EMG2Pose Training counterpart · Start kit · Baseline · Warm-up EMG 193 370h 16 2000 Hz -
Track 04 EMG2Pose evaluation cohort NEW 2026 Sealed evaluation · Same acquisition protocol EMG Not disclosed - 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

PROTEUS BCI Bordeaux

The full acquisition programme follows 20 participants across six sessions using the same three-command Graz and BrainHero protocol. The public NEMAR release provides 112 runs from 14 sessions of 10 participants: two with their first three sessions and eight with their first session. Recordings contain 41 EEG channels at 500 Hz and support public training and warm-up evaluation. A distinct private counterpart is reserved for sealed evaluation and combines later sessions from represented participants with recordings from entirely new participants. Its identities, composition, and acquisition metadata remain undisclosed. Provided by Inria Bordeaux.

Track 03 · 2026 matched training + hidden evaluation datasets

Muse Sleep-Onset EEG

The public NEMAR release provides 540 at-home recordings from 203 participants, totaling approximately 157.52 hours. Each recording contains four Muse EEG channels at 128 Hz and one first-N2 annotation. Sealed evaluation uses a private cohort recorded with the same device family and task protocol, combining new recordings from represented sleepers with entirely unseen sleepers. Exact sealed composition remains private. 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.