BridgeRouter: Gain-Aware Instance Routing over Cross-Modal Bridge Portfolios

Authors: Ruoxi Piao , Alicia Lu , Yunzhen Zhang , Mustafa Mısır , Hasan Onur Keleş

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Abstract: Lightweight representation bridges make pretrained, task-adapted EEG foundation models executable on other biosignal modalities without retraining their backbones. However, selecting a single bridge pathway globally assigns every instance to the same transfer route and ignores complementary errors across routes. We therefore formulate multi-bridge transfer as an instance-level algorithm-selection problem and introduce BridgeRouter, a gain-aware router over a portfolio of frozen cross-modal pathways. A validation-selected Single Best Solver (SBS) serves as a protected default route. During training, task labels are used to compute the reduction in negative log-likelihood provided by each alternative route relative to the SBS, and a lightweight MLP predicts these route-specific gains from a target-modality representation extracted by a frozen encoder. At inference, BridgeRouter observes only the target modality, requires neither EEG, task labels, nor predictions from all candidate routes, and executes exactly one bridge pathway: the route with the largest predicted gain when that gain exceeds a validation-calibrated threshold, and the SBS otherwise. We evaluate seven EEG foundation-model bridge pathways for EMG-based freezing-of-gait detection on FOG and ECG-based sleep classification on ISRUC. Across five seeds, BridgeRouter achieves $81.38\pm1.11\%$ balanced accuracy on FOG, improving over the BIOT SBS by $11.49$ percentage points, and $62.92\pm2.17\%$ on ISRUC, improving over the CBraMod SBS by $3.83$ points. Per-instance bridge oracles reach $99.96\%$ and $78.61\%$, respectively, revealing substantial remaining portfolio headroom. These results show that anchor-relative gain prediction can convert complementary cross-modal bridge behavior into deployable instance-level routing improvements while retaining single-route inference.

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