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Electroencephalogram (EEG) data is used for a variety of purposes, including brain-computer interfaces, disease diagnosis, and determining cognitive states. Yet EEG signals are susceptible to noise from many sources, such as muscle and eye movements, and motion of electrodes and cables. Traditional approaches to this problem involve supervised training to identify signal components corresponding to noise so that they can be removed. However these approaches are artifact specific. In this paper, we present a novel software-hardware system that uses a weak supervisory signal to indicate that some noise is occurring, but not what the source of the noise is or how it is manifested in the EEG signal. The EEG data is decomposed into independent components using ICA, and these components form bags that are labeled and classified by a multi-instance learning algorithm that can identify the noise components …