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This research introduces WALoMA, a foundation model for 6G physical layers that leverages masked autoencoders and LoRA techniques to perform self-supervised learning on unlabeled channel data. By treating wireless Channel State Information as a universal modality, the framework significantly reduces annotation dependency while outperforming specialized baselines across five critical downstream tasks like beam prediction and channel estimation. The approach demonstrates how parameter-efficient fine-tuning can unify diverse networking functions within a single architecture, addressing key bottlenecks in large-scale 6G deployment.
WALoMA: A Multitask Wireless Foundation Model via Adaptive Low-Rank Masked Autoencoders
arXiv:2607.25763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper proposes a multitask wireless foundation model via adaptive low-rank masked autoencoders (WALoMA), a unified multi-task foundation model for sixth-generation (6G) wireless physical layer architectures, to address the limitations of specialized, task-specific deep learning models and the practical challenge of scarce labeled wireless datasets. By leveraging concepts inspired by foundation models, the proposed framework adopts a masked autoencoder (MAE) paradigm to learn from unlabeled channel data, to significantly reduce reliance on extensive annotations. The model treats wireless channel state information (CSI) as a universal modality and learns transferable representations through self-supervised channel reconstruction. Key architectural novelties include the use of 2D positional encoding (PE) to explicitly preserve the spatial-frequency relationships between antennas and subcarriers, and low-rank adaptation (LoRA) for parameter-efficient fine-tuning. The framework's efficacy is demonstrated across five downstream tasks, achieving individual scores of 96.47\% for LoS/NLoS classification, 80.45\% for beam prediction, 85.78\% for channel interpolation, 99.12\% for channel estimation, and 77.18\% for channel charting. Consequently, numerical results show that the proposed model achieves a composite score of 87.80\%, significantly outperforming the 59.90\% achieved by the large wireless model (LWM) baseline while training an average of only 14.68\% of total parameters, and maintaining strong performance even under extremely limited labeled data conditions.
Abstract:This paper proposes a multitask wireless foundation model via adaptive low-rank masked autoencoders (WALoMA), a unified multi-task foundation model for sixth-generation (6G) wireless physical layer architectures, to address the limitations of specialized, task-specific deep learning models and the practical challenge of scarce labeled wireless datasets. By leveraging concepts inspired by foundation models, the proposed framework adopts a masked autoencoder (MAE) paradigm to learn from unlabeled channel data, to significantly reduce reliance on extensive annotations. The model treats wireless channel state information (CSI) as a universal modality and learns transferable representations through self-supervised channel reconstruction. Key architectural novelties include the use of 2D positional encoding (PE) to explicitly preserve the spatial-frequency relationships between antennas and subcarriers, and low-rank adaptation (LoRA) for parameter-efficient fine-tuning. The framework's efficacy is demonstrated across five downstream tasks, achieving individual scores of 96.47\% for LoS/NLoS classification, 80.45\% for beam prediction, 85.78\% for channel interpolation, 99.12\% for channel estimation, and 77.18\% for channel charting. Consequently, numerical results show that the proposed model achieves a composite score of 87.80\%, significantly outperforming the 59.90\% achieved by the large wireless model (LWM) baseline while training an average of only 14.68\% of total parameters, and maintaining strong performance even under extremely limited labeled data conditions.
Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2607.25763 [cs.NI]
(or arXiv:2607.25763v1 [cs.NI] for this version)
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