---
license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
library_name: braindecode
tags:
  - braindecode
  - EMG2QwertyNet
  - emg
  - ctc
  - keystroke-decoding
  - emg2qwerty
---

# emg2qwerty — generic baseline (TDS-Conv-CTC, 108-subject pretrained)

Pre-remapped braindecode-compatible copy of the upstream
[`generic.ckpt`](https://github.com/facebookresearch/emg2qwerty/blob/main/models/generic.ckpt)
from the emg2qwerty release (Sivakumar et al., NeurIPS 2024 D&B Track).

```python
from braindecode.models import EMG2QwertyNet

model = EMG2QwertyNet.from_pretrained("braindecode/emg2qwerty-generic")
```

## Source

Upstream repository: <https://github.com/facebookresearch/emg2qwerty>
Paper: Sivakumar V, Seely J, Du A, Bittner S, Berenzweig A,
Bolarinwa A, Gramfort A, Mandel M. *emg2qwerty: A Large Dataset
with Baselines for Touch Typing using Surface Electromyography*.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2024.

## Modification from upstream

Upstream `models/generic.ckpt` is a PyTorch-Lightning checkpoint
of `emg2qwerty.lightning.TDSConvCTCModule`, whose inner
`nn.Sequential` exposes the classifier head as item 4
(`model.4.{weight,bias}`).  braindecode's `EMG2QwertyNet`
exposes the same head as a named attribute
(`final_layer.{weight,bias}`).

The remap is a **two-key rename**, applied once and saved here:

| Upstream key       | braindecode key       |
|--------------------|-----------------------|
| `model.4.weight`   | `final_layer.weight`  |
| `model.4.bias`     | `final_layer.bias`    |

All 49 other keys (BatchNorm, MLP, TDS conv blocks) match
verbatim — both modules expose the backbone as
`self.model = nn.Sequential(...)`, so the keys already share the
`model.<index>.` prefix and need no rename.  Weights are
otherwise unchanged from upstream.

Conversion is reproducible from
`neuralbench-repo/scripts/convert_emg2qwerty_checkpoint.py`.

### Verification

BatchNorm running statistics on the first layer match upstream:

| Stat                                    | This checkpoint | Expected |
|-----------------------------------------|-----------------|----------|
| `model.0.batch_norm.running_mean.mean`  | 0.511           | ≈ 0.51   |
| `model.0.batch_norm.running_var.mean`   | 1.146           | ≈ 1.15   |

Forward pass on a 1×32×8000 random input returns shape
`(1, 373, 99)` — the 4 s @ 2 kHz window after the TDS encoder +
CTC head.

## License

**CC BY-NC-SA 4.0** ([Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)),
inherited from the upstream emg2qwerty release.

* **Attribution (BY)** — cite Sivakumar et al. (2024) and link
  this repository when the weights are used or redistributed.
* **NonCommercial (NC)** — not licensed for commercial use.
* **ShareAlike (SA)** — derivatives must be released under the
  same CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

braindecode itself is BSD-3-Clause; that license applies to the
*code*, not to these weights.  The weights are governed solely
by CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

## Intended use

Drop-in pretrained backbone for the
[`emg/qwerty`](https://github.com/facebookresearch/neuroai/tree/main/neuralbench-repo/neuralbench/tasks/emg/qwerty)
CTC keystroke-decoding task in NeuralBench, or any other research
workflow consuming `braindecode.models.EMG2QwertyNet`.

Per the source paper (table 4): zero-shot val/CER ≈ 16 % on a
held-out subject; further fine-tuning typically reduces CER to
≈ 10 % on a personalized split.

## Citation

```bibtex
@inproceedings{sivakumar2024emg2qwerty,
  title     = {emg2qwerty: A Large Dataset with Baselines for
               Touch Typing using Surface Electromyography},
  author    = {Sivakumar, Viswanath and Seely, Jeffrey and Du,
               Alan and Bittner, Sean and Berenzweig, Adam and
               Bolarinwa, Anuoluwapo and Gramfort, Alexandre and
               Mandel, Michael},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
               (NeurIPS), Datasets and Benchmarks Track},
  year      = {2024},
  url       = {https://github.com/facebookresearch/emg2qwerty},
}
```