Flattening the Connectome Spectrum: A Spectral Filter for FC Induces a Pretraining Target for fMRI Encoders
Self-supervised pretraining reshaped prediction in language and vision, and brain foundation models (BFMs) inherited its promise. Representations learned from large unlabelled corpora should capture individual functional dynamics and generalise across cohorts. However, kernel ridge regression (KRR) fitted on functional...