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BrainTaskonomy optimizes fMRI foundation model pretraining and transfer learning

Researchers have developed a novel approach called BrainTaskonomy to optimize the pretraining and transfer learning processes for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) foundation models. This method utilizes a Brain-DiT proxy to estimate learning relationships between different fMRI domains, guiding the pretraining curriculum with a priority-guided approach and timestep scheduling. For downstream tasks, BrainTaskonomy constructs a directed taskonomy to select optimal source tasks and transfer routes using budgeted integer programming. This strategy significantly reduces various error metrics and demonstrates strong performance across multiple tasks, revealing asymmetric and target-dependent transfer patterns. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more efficient and effective foundation models for analyzing brain imaging data, potentially accelerating neuroscience research.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Junfeng Xia, Wenhao Ye, Junxiang Zhang, Jiayu Zuo, Mo Wang, Quanying Liu ·

    BrainTaskonomy: Learning How to Pretrain and What to Transfer in fMRI Foundation Models

    arXiv:2609.10518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: fMRI foundation models increasingly aggregate heterogeneous data across brain states, cohorts, and acquisition settings, yet pretraining domains are commonly treated as a flat mixture and downstream tasks are adapted independently. …