EEGDash Corpus: A Training-Ready Public Corpus for EEG Foundation Models

Kuber Shahi, Bruno Aristimunha, Arnaud Delorme

Foundation models for electroencephalography (EEG) are pretrained on tens of thousands of hours of recordings, and their accuracy grows with that amount. Such data is hard to assemble. The largest sources are clinical archives that cannot be redistributed, and the public sources are spread over several archives, file formats, and licences. We release eegdash-corpus-v0, a training-ready corpus of 77 public EEG datasets, as the gated Hugging Face dataset EEGDash/eegdash-corpus-v0 with the SHA-256 of every file. REVE, the largest published EEG foundation model, names 89 datasets as its pretraining corpus. Twelve cannot be redistributed: four clinical archives that hold 82% of its hours, and eight under no-derivatives licences. The corpus holds the 76 others that REVE's sampling rate allows and one more from REVE's release card: 77 datasets, 14,075 hours from 7,272 subjects, 5.0 million 10-second samples and 6.21 billion tokens per epoch. Every dataset is fetched through EEGDash, converted once with REVE's recipe, and stored in its own buckets of a chunked Zarr store with its licence recorded beside it, so a model can train on the whole store or on any subset of datasets. To test…