---
license: mit
tags:
  - neuroscience
  - fMRI
  - brain-decoding
  - text-to-brain
  - audio-to-brain
  - naturalistic-fMRI
  - ROI-prediction
  - cognitive-neuroscience
  - brain-encoding
  - zero-shot
  - whisper
  - Qwen4B
library_name: custom
language:
  - en
datasets:
  - narratives
  - little-prince
  - hcp
  - cneuromod
pipeline_tag: feature-extraction
---

# Amphora NeuroText v4 — Audio & Text → Brain ROI Activation

> **Small MLP brain encoder: predict which brain regions activate in response to any audio or text — no fMRI required at inference time.**

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Trained exclusively on **real naturalistic fMRI data**.

This is a demo, not representative of the full model**.

Predicts activation across **56 canonical brain ROIs** (HCP MMP1.0 parcellation).

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## Headline Result

**Audio model (Whisper v4) beats TRIBE v2** — the Meta AI model that won the Algonauts 2025 competition — **by +4.2%** on a 23-subject cross-subject holdout:

| Model | Held-out R | Notes |
|-------|-----------|-------|
| **NeuroText Whisper v4** | **0.257** | Single shared model, no per-subject fine-tuning |
| TRIBE v2 (Meta AI) | 0.215 | Published; per-subject fine-tuned; video+audio+text |

All 7 brain networks exceeded TRIBE v2 at a fraction of the compute. Biggest leads: Frontal (+0.209), Default Mode (+0.221), Subcortical (+0.234).
These predictions are made on a coarser 56 ROI level, future work will be devoted towards increasing prediction fidelity.

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## Models

| File | Input | Val R | Holdout R | Notes |
|------|-------|-------|-----------|-------|
| `text2roi_whisper_v4.pt` | Audio (Whisper-large-v3, 1280d) | **0.217** | **0.257** | **Recommended for audio. Beats TRIBE v2 (+4.2%)** |
| `text2roi_combined_v4.pt` | Text+Audio (3840d, modality dropout) | 0.192 | — | Text or combined inference; recommended for text |
| `text2roi_qwen3_v8.pt` | Text (Qwen3-Embedding-4B, 2560d) | 0.115 | — | Text-only; cross-dataset generalization improving |

*Val R = mean Pearson R across 56 ROIs on held-out subjects (honest — see below).*
*Holdout R = independent eval on 23 never-seen subjects.*

> **Note on previous models (v2/v3):** Models in this repo before July 2026 reported inflated val_R values (0.239–0.413) due to within-subject train/val splits. Those numbers are not comparable to v4. The v4 models use honest per-subject z-scoring and per-subject holdout splits.

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## Why These Numbers Are Honest

Previous NeuroText versions had inflated val_R from a **within-subject split**: the model saw the same subjects in both train and val, and learned subject-level baseline BOLD activations. Cross-subject, that memorized baseline is useless.

v4 fixes both issues:

1. **Per-subject z-scoring** — each subject's ROI activations are z-scored independently before training, so the model learns stimulus-driven fluctuations rather than who each subject is.
2. **Per-subject holdout split** — 15% of subjects per dataset are excluded from training entirely. Zero subject overlap guaranteed.
3. **Single shared model** — no per-subject adaptation at inference. TRIBE requires fine-tuning on each test subject; Amphora does not.

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## Audio Model — Top ROIs (held-out eval)

| ROI | R | vs TRIBE |
|-----|---|---------|
| ACC | 0.438 | +0.368 |
| STG | 0.422 | +0.302 |
| Thalamus | 0.408 | +0.358 |
| V1 | 0.393 | +0.073 |
| LP_R | 0.380 | +0.290 |
| mPFC_dmn | 0.379 | +0.299 |
| AI | 0.343 | +0.253 |
| HPC_L | 0.337 | +0.247 |
| V2 | 0.336 | +0.036 |
| dACC | 0.330 | +0.250 |

53/56 ROIs R>0.10 · 41/56 R>0.20 · 20/56 R>0.30

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## Quick Start

```python
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
from predict import predict_audio, predict_text, top_rois

REPO = "ffh92r32rm0/Amphora_NeuroText"

# Audio → brain regions (recommended)
ckpt = hf_hub_download(REPO, "text2roi_whisper_v4.pt")
roi_map = predict_audio("clip.wav", ckpt)
print(top_rois(roi_map, n=5))
# → [('ACC', 0.44), ('STG', 0.42), ('Thalamus', 0.41), ...]

# Text → brain regions
ckpt = hf_hub_download(REPO, "text2roi_combined_v4.pt")
roi_map = predict_text("I am terrified of the dark", ckpt)
print(top_rois(roi_map, n=5))
# → [('Amygdala_L', 0.xx), ('AI', 0.xx), ('dACC', 0.xx), ...]
```

### CLI

```bash
# Audio
python predict.py audio clip.wav --model text2roi_whisper_v4.pt --top 10

# Text
python predict.py text "watching a spider crawl toward me" --model text2roi_combined_v4.pt

# Text + Audio
python predict.py combined "narration text" clip.wav
```

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## Training Details

- **Corpus:** 2.73M TRs · 289 GB · 4,480 sessions (CNeuroMod Friends, Narratives, LPP, HCP, language fMRI, Cowen-Keltner)
- **Brain space:** fsaverage5 + subcortical, 28,444 vertices → 56 ROI parcellation (HCP MMP1.0)
- **Architecture:** Linear(in_dim→1024) → GELU → Dropout → LayerNorm → Linear(1024→512) → GELU → Dropout → Linear(512→56)
- **Loss:** Pearson R (+ anchor ranking for qwen3 model)
- **Epochs:** 120 per model
- **Eval metric:** Mean Pearson R across 56 ROIs, identical to Algonauts 2025

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## Requirements

```
torch>=2.0
transformers>=4.40
huggingface_hub>=0.23
numpy>=1.24
librosa>=0.10   # for audio loading
```

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## Citation / Contact

Built by Amphora.

If you use this in research, please cite the HuggingFace repo URL.