ZUNA: Flexible EEG Superresolution with Position-Aware Diffusion Autoencoders
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Abstract (arXiv)
We present textttZUNA, a 380M-parameter masked diffusion autoencoder trained to perform masked channel infilling and superresolution for arbitrary electrode numbers and positions in EEG signals. The textttZUNA architecture tokenizes multichannel EEG into short temporal windows and injects spatiotemporal structure via a 4D rotary positional encoding over (x,y,z,t), enabling inference on arbitrary channel subsets and positions. We train ZUNA on an aggregated and harmonized corpus spanning 208 public datasets containing approximately 2 million channel-hours using a combined reconstruction and heavy channel-dropout objective. We show that textttZUNA substantially improves over ubiquitous spherical-spline interpolation methods, with the gap widening at higher dropout rates. Crucially, compared to other deep learning methods in this space, textttZUNA's performance generalizes across datasets and channel positions allowing it to be applied directly to novel datasets and problems. Despite its generative capabilities, textttZUNA remains computationally practical for deployment. We release Apache-2.0 weights and an MNE-compatible preprocessing/inference stack to encourage reproducible comparisons and downstream use in EEG analysis pipelines.
Key facts. Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Medical imaging and segmentation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 33 of its 78 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 9 Feb 2026.
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