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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · October 6, 2026
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Surface electromyography (sEMG) provides a wearable, noninvasive interface to neuromuscular activity for movement decoding and human-computer interaction. Population-scale decoding remains difficult because the relationship between sEMG and neuromuscular activity varies across users and sessions, while task-relevant dynamics span channels and multiple timescales. Learning waveform-to-output mappings from task labels leaves the distinction between recording variability and coordinated motor activity implicit. We introduce the Neuromotor Hierarchy Network (NHN), which learns a compact latent neuromotor state from task supervision to represent task-relevant neuromuscular coordination. NHN constructs this latent state through a hierarchy inspired by neuromotor organization.It adapts recording statistics while preserving relative intensity.Its spatiotemporal encoder uses parameter-efficient channel interactions and modulates features with multi-timescale history. The resulting features yield candidate activations of learned motor primitives, which are temporally integrated and continuously weighted to form the state. Theoretical analysis characterizes the efficiency, temporal behavior, and optimization of NHN's core mechanisms. We evaluate the architecture for both continuous hand-pose estimation on emg2pose and touch-typing recognition on emg2qwerty. On emg2pose, NHN reduces user-averaged angular error by 0.52% to 2.84% across all three generalization splits in both Regression and Tracking relative to Hadidi et al.'s best task-specific variants, using 48.42% to 48.51% fewer parameters. On emg2qwerty, NHN reduces beam-search character error rate by 19.40% zero-shot and 30.42% after fine-tuning relative to SplashNet-Upscale, using 65.86% fewer parameters. Physiology-guided inference of a latent neuromotor state supports parameter-efficient sEMG decoding.