The 2026 PNPL Competition and the LibriBrain100 dataset are documented in the following publications, together with our retrospective on the 2025 edition, whose lessons informed this year’s design. See also the 2025 publications for the original LibriBrain dataset and 2025 competition papers.
LibriBrain100: One Hundred Hours of Broad and Deep MEG Data for Neural Speech Decoding at Scale
Francesco Mantegna, Dulhan Jayalath, Gereon Elvers, Tasha Kim, Benjamin Ballyk, Alex Fung, SungJun Cho, Teyun Kwon, Luisa Kurth, Miran Özdogan, Gilad Landau, Pratik Somaiya, Natalie Voets, Mark Woolrich, Oiwi Parker Jones
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Benchmarking Non-Invasive Speech BCIs: Lessons Learned from the 2025 PNPL Competition
Gereon Elvers, Gilad Landau, Francesco Mantegna, Miran Özdogan, Tasha Kim, Teyun Kwon, SungJun Cho, Benjamin Ballyk, Luisa Kurth, Dulhan Jayalath, Pratik Somaiya, Chetan Gohil, Brendan Shillingford, Greg Farquhar, Minqi Jiang, Caglar Gulcehre, Xabier de Zuazo, Hamza Abdelhedi, Yorguin Mantilla Ramos, Karim Jerbi, Mark Woolrich, Natalie Voets, Oiwi Parker Jones
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (NeurIPS 2025 Competition Track), 2026