Emotion recognition based on electroencephalography (EEG) data has gained rapid development because of its believability and accuracy. However, most existing EEG emotion recognition methods suffer from three issues: 1) underutilization of multi-scale emotion representations, 2) underexploitation of emotion labels and intrinsic geometric structures, and 3) inherent non-stationarity characteristic and individual variability of EEG signals. To this end, we propose an Adaptive Manifold Convolutional Broad Learning System (AM-ConvBLS) to capture the multi-scale distribution aligned emotion patterns in the geometric structure preserved emotion submanifold space. To begin with, a Multi-Scale Representation Learning (MSRL) module is developed to learn diverse multi-scale emotion representations. The Domain Discrepancy Elimination (DDE) module is then developed to further align feature distributions in the source and target domains. To further utilize EEG emotion labels, we devise a Label Manifold Information Exploration (LMIE) module to retain the sample label consistency. In addition, a global feature importance analysis method for AM-ConvBLS based on Shapley Additive Global importancE (SAGE) is designed to investigate the EEG frequency band importance and brain neural activation patterns. Experiments on SEED, SEED-IV, and SEED-V datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our AM-ConvBLS.

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a challenging problem in the design of deep learning due to its nonconvexity. To address this problem, an adaptive scalable NAS method (AS-NAS) is proposed based on the reinforced I-Ching divination evolutionary algorithm (IDEA) and variable-architecture encoding strategy. First, unlike the typical reinforcement learning (RL)-based and evolutionary algorithm (EA)-based NAS methods, a simplified RL algorithm is developed and used as the reinforced operator controller to adaptively select the efficient operators of IDEA. Without the complex actor–critic parts, the reinforced IDEA based on simplified RL can enhance the search efficiency of the original EA with lower computational cost. Second, a variable-architecture encoding strategy is proposed to encode neural architecture as a fixed-length binary string. By simultaneously considering variable layers, channels, and connections between different convolution layers, the deep neural architecture can be scalable. Through the integration with the reinforced IDEA and variable-architecture encoding strategy, the design of the deep neural architecture can be adaptively scalable. Finally, the proposed AS-NAS are integrated with the${L}_{1/2}$regularization to increase the sparsity of the optimized neural architecture. Experiments and comparisons demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.