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Neural decoding · Decoding

torch_brain

A library for designing and training deep-learning models on neural population data.

  • Active
  • Early
  • Research-focused

What problem does it solve?

Pretraining across sessions, subjects and datasets needs data structures and models built for heterogeneous spiking data.

Who is it for?

Researchers building neural foundation models

At a glance

Primary use
Neural decoding
Licence
Apache-2.0 · permissive
Language
Python
Current release
v0.2.0, published 7 Jul 2026
Development activity
Last commit 2 Oct 2026 · repository created 24 Jun 2024
Maintainers
neuro-galaxy
GitHub stars
98 as of 3 Oct 2026
Standards
NWB

Repository facts are a snapshot read from the GitHub API on 3 Oct 2026; they are reported as found, not scored.

Supported modalities and use

Modalities

Real-time capability

Primarily for offline analysis

Common use cases

  • Multi-session pretraining
  • Population decoding models

How it fits into a BCI stack

  1. Hardware

    2 tools

  2. Acquisition

    3 tools

  3. Streaming

    3 tools

  4. Processing

    6 tools

  5. Decoding

    torch_brain

  6. Applications

    2 tools

  7. Data & standards

    3 tools

Sources

  1. 01

    github.com/neuro-galaxy/torch_brain (opens in a new tab)

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