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This research introduces a hierarchical wireless foundation model that unifies channel encoding and optimization tasks, addressing the generalization limits of current task-specific deep learning approaches in next-generation networks. By leveraging self-supervised pre-training and geometry-aware cross-attention, the architecture achieves high-fidelity representation with reduced inference latency across diverse system configurations without requiring excessive parameter overhead.
Hierarchical Wireless Foundation Model for Multi-Task Optimization
arXiv:2607.16877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing complexity of next-generation wireless networks has driven the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into wireless communications. However, most existing studies focus on developing task-specific deep learning techniques for single scenarios, which limits their ability to generalize across diverse tasks, channel conditions, and system configurations. To address this generalization bottleneck, we propose a hierarchical wireless foundation model (WFM) for multi-task optimization. The proposed WFM couples an upstream foundation channel encoder (FCE) with a downstream foundation optimization decoder (FOD) via geometry-aware cross-attention. Specifically, the FCE extracts task-agnostic channel representations via self-supervised masked reconstruction while the FOD generates multi-task optimization decisions through differentiable output heads. Moreover, a hybrid supervised-to-unsupervised training strategy is employed to overcome the performance ceiling of purely supervised learning, and the modular architecture of the WFM enables efficient adaptation to unseen communication tasks with minimal parameter overhead. Simulation results show that the proposed WFM learns high-fidelity channel representations and achieves competitive multi-task optimization performance while substantially reducing optimization inference latency relative to numerical baselines. Furthermore, it exhibits robust generalization to unseen propagation environments, varying constraint parameters, and heterogeneous system configurations.
Abstract:The increasing complexity of next-generation wireless networks has driven the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into wireless communications. However, most existing studies focus on developing task-specific deep learning techniques for single scenarios, which limits their ability to generalize across diverse tasks, channel conditions, and system configurations. To address this generalization bottleneck, we propose a hierarchical wireless foundation model (WFM) for multi-task optimization. The proposed WFM couples an upstream foundation channel encoder (FCE) with a downstream foundation optimization decoder (FOD) via geometry-aware cross-attention. Specifically, the FCE extracts task-agnostic channel representations via self-supervised masked reconstruction while the FOD generates multi-task optimization decisions through differentiable output heads. Moreover, a hybrid supervised-to-unsupervised training strategy is employed to overcome the performance ceiling of purely supervised learning, and the modular architecture of the WFM enables efficient adaptation to unseen communication tasks with minimal parameter overhead. Simulation results show that the proposed WFM learns high-fidelity channel representations and achieves competitive multi-task optimization performance while substantially reducing optimization inference latency relative to numerical baselines. Furthermore, it exhibits robust generalization to unseen propagation environments, varying constraint parameters, and heterogeneous system configurations.
Signal Processing (eess.SP); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2607.16877 [eess.SP]
(or arXiv:2607.16877v1 [eess.SP] for this version)
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