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Updates, announcements, and technical deep dives from the PNPL Competition.

Brain-to-Text Decoding with Only Minutes of Labelled Data Using MEG-XL

MEG-XL adapts to new subjects with less labelled data and offers a strong baseline for the 2026 PNPL competition’s broad track.

2026-09-16· Dulhan Jayalath, Oiwi Parker Jones
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Competition Leaderboard Announcement

A potential source of cross-track leakage in the public broad-track leaderboard has come to our attention. Public leaderboards stay as they are; final rankings will be based on code-reviewed submissions.

2026-09-11· PNPL Organising Team
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Measuring Progress by Asking: What Can Thought-to-Text Interfaces Communicate?

Progress in thought-to-text with speech decoding BCIs is becoming increasingly difficult to compare. How can we standardise scores and measure progress?

2026-09-05· Dulhan Jayalath, Oiwi Parker Jones
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Language-Inspired Approaches to Phoneme Classification

A linguistics-driven strategy for classifying phonetic features from MEG, and mapping back to ARPABET phonemes.

2025-09-22· Teyun Kwon, SungJun Cho, Gereon Elvers, Francesco Mantegna, Oiwi Parker Jones
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Phase 2 (Phoneme Classification) is Now Live!

We are excited to announce that Phase 2 of the LibriBrain Competition is now accepting submissions for the Phoneme Classification task.

2025-08-01· LibriBrain Team
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Brain-Inspired Approaches to Speech Detection

Neuroscience-informed approaches to speech detection for the LibriBrain competition, including STG sensor analysis, spatial and temporal strategies, and architectural recommendations.

2025-07-10· Francesco Mantegna, Gereon Elvers, Oiwi Parker Jones
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The Speech Detection task and the reference model

Exploring the Speech Detection task and the reference model architecture used in the LibriBrain competition, including insights into our 'Start Simple' approach and future research directions.

2025-07-07· Gilad Landau, Gereon Elvers, Miran Özdogan, Oiwi Parker Jones
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Phase 1 (Speech Detection) is Now Live!

We are excited to announce that Phase 1 of the LibriBrain Competition is now accepting submissions for the Speech Detection task.

2025-06-02· LibriBrain Team
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Building a Collaborative Foundation for Non-Invasive Speech BCIs: The 2025 PNPL Competition

Exploring the motivation behind the 2025 PNPL Competition and how we're building towards non-invasive speech brain-computer interfaces through deep MEG datasets and collaborative research.

2025-01-20· Gereon Elvers, Gilad Landau, Dulhan Jayalath, Francesco Mantegna, Oiwi Parker Jones
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