Temporal leakage from shuffled neighboring epochs inflates EEG familiarity classification, with peak weighted F1 dropping from 0.9853 (CNN, stratified) to 0.6038 (CNN, Group K-Fold)¶

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Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2029: tool and model accuracy changes quickly

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q2 i? Under stratified K-Fold, models reached up to 0.9853 weighted F1 (CNN), but under trial-independent Group K-Fold the peak dropped to 0.6038 (CNN) with Gradient Boosting at 0.5510, confirming massive temporal leakage from shuffled neighboring epochs. → Isuru Nanayakkara and Thilina Halloluwa 2026

Evidence¶

Isuru Nanayakkara and Thilina Halloluwa 2026¶

Isuru Nanayakkara and Thilina Halloluwa. (2026). Automating Learner Assessment: Benchmarking Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models for EEG-Based Familiarity Prediction. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16541 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.16541

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Benchmarking of fifteen ML/DL models on EEG spectral features from 23 participants, comparing Stratified K-Fold versus Group K-Fold protocols; the article reports the drop "to 0.6038 F1-score (using CNN)" and attributes it to "massive temporal leakage". No effect size is printed for this comparison.

"However, under the rigorous trial-independent Group K-Fold protocol, the peak performance dropped to 0.6038 F1-score (using CNN), with the Gradient Boosting reaching 0.5510. This drop confirms that shuffling neighboring epochs introduces massive temporal leakage."

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