The 2025 PNPL competition aims at advancing speech decoding from non-invasive brain data to help paralyzed individuals with speech deficits.
The competition seeks to avoid high-risk surgical interventions and restore communication through machine learning.
It aims to achieve an 'ImageNet moment' in non-invasive neural decoding by uniting the machine learning community.
The LibriBrain dataset, coupled with the pnpl Python library, is provided to assist participants with training and deep learning model integration.
Two fundamental tasks - Speech Detection and Phoneme Classification from brain data - are defined for the competition.
The competition includes standard data splits, evaluation metrics, benchmark models, tutorial code, a discussion board, and a public leaderboard for submissions.
There are two competition tracks: a Standard track focusing on algorithmic innovation, and an Extended track encouraging larger-scale computing for progressing toward a non-invasive brain-computer interface for speech.
The competition is designed to promote accessibility and foster participation within the machine learning community.