# LightSleepX: A Lightweight, Inception-Based Dual-Modal Network for Sleep Staging

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19062 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.19062/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 8 of its 19 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 22 Jul 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 8 of 8)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Vision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.00567/) (2015)
- [Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.00752/) (2023)
- [MobileNets: Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Vision Applications](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.04861/) (2017)
- [DeepSleepNet: a Model for Automatic Sleep Stage Scoring based on Raw Single-Channel EEG](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.04046/) (2017)
- [SeqSleepNet: End-to-End Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network for Sequence-to-Sequence Automatic Sleep Staging](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.10932/) (2018)
- [SleepEEGNet: Automated Sleep Stage Scoring with Sequence to Sequence Deep Learning Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.02108/) (2019)
- [Efficient Multi-Scale Attention Module with Cross-Spatial Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.13563/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Automatic sleep staging is fundamental to personal health monitoring, yet many existing approaches are ill-suited for real-world applications. Traditional pipelines often rely on hand-crafted features or shallow machine learning models that struggle to generalize, while state-of-the-art deep learning methods, though accurate, are computationally heavy and impractical for resource-constrained environments. This paper introduces LightSleepX, a lightweight framework designed to deliver robust sleep analysis in resource-constrained environments. LightSleepX combines an Inception-style architecture with depthwise separable convolutions and Multi-scale Enhanced Attention for efficient multi-modal EEG/EOG feature extraction, and a Mamba encoder for rule-free long-range temporal modeling. On public benchmark datasets, LightSleepX achieves 85.9% accuracy and a 0.803 macro-F1 score on Sleep-EDF-20, and 81.8% accuracy and a 0.796 macro-F1 score on the cross-subject ISRUC-S3 dataset. With 0.049M parameters and 195.9 MFLOPs, the framework targets practical local deployment where computational cost and privacy are central constraints.