arXiv AI

The Universal Language of CSI:Unifying Wireless Sensing Across Devices and Environments

arXiv:2607. 09727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: WiFi sensing based on Channel State Information (CSI) promises ubiquitous, device-free perception, yet current research remains trapped in a Tower of Babel - fragmented into isolated silos where models are tailored to specific hardware dialects, fixed environments, and narrow tasks.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

CIG-MAE: Cross-Modal Information-Guided Masked Autoencoder for Self-Supervised WiFi Sensing

CIG-MAE is a self‑supervised framework for WiFi‑based human action recognition that uses a cross‑modal masked autoencoder to reconstruct both amplitude and phase of Channel State Information. It introduces an adaptive, information‑guided masking strategy that focuses on high‑density time‑frequency regions and employs a Barlow Twins regularizer to align cross‑modal representations without negative samples. Experiments on three public datasets show that CIG‑MAE outperforms state‑of‑the‑art SSL methods and even surpasses a fully supervised baseline, highlighting its data efficiency, robustness, and generalization.

By Gang Liu, Yanling Hao, Yixuan Zou
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Learnware for CSI Feedback: Scene-specific Small Models Can Do Big

The paper proposes a Learnware-based framework for deploying scene‑specific CSI feedback models in 6G systems. A centralized AI data center maintains a catalog of pre‑trained models, each tagged with semantic and statistical specifications. Base stations retrieve the most relevant model using only statistical fingerprints, which reduces data privacy risks, lowers retrieval latency, and cuts fine‑tuning effort, achieving up to 57.7% performance gains over a general model.

By Xiangyi Li, Jiajia Guo, Chao-Kai Wen, Xin Geng, Shi Jin, Zhi-Hua Zhou
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Wireless Foundation Models: State-of-the-Art and Open Challenges

The paper surveys wireless foundation models (WFMs), highlighting their role in learning reusable representations from large-scale wireless data for physical-layer tasks. It systematically reviews WFM design components—pretraining, backbone architectures, and downstream adaptation—and categorizes the literature into five task families: signal recognition and demodulation, channel representation learning, RF sensing and localization, beam management, and spectrum sensing and monitoring, including multi-task models. The analysis reveals that while WFMs show promise, evidence of transferability varies across tasks and evaluation settings, and differences in datasets, modalities, architectures, and distribution shifts hinder clear conclusions about effective design choices.

By Alonso M. Pacheco Huachaca, Juan J. Rodriguez Rodriguez, Ahmed Aboulfotouh, Nelson L. S. da Fonseca, Carlos A. Astudillo, Hatem Abou-Zeid
arXiv AI
Jul 7

STELLA: Efficient Sensor-to-LLM Translation for On-Device Human Activity Recognition

arXiv:2607. 03089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: HAR is increasingly expected to run continuously on edge devices, yet recent LLM-based methods remain hard to deploy: raw sensor prompts are long, cloud inference adds latency and privacy risk, and fine-tuned LLM pipelines turn general-purpose models into task-specific classifiers.

By Nirhoshan Sivaroopan, Albert Zomaya, Kanchana Thilakarathna
arXiv AI
Jul 14

JEPA for AI-Native 6G: Predictive Representations and Open Challenges

arXiv:2607. 09798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sixth-generation (6G) networks are moving toward AI-native operation, where learning modules are embedded across the radio access network (RAN), edge, and core.

By Sheikh Salman Hassan, Irshad A. Meer, Almoatssimbillah Saifaldawla, Yan Kyaw Tun, Mustafa Ozger, Madyan Alsenwi, Nguyen Van Huynh, Woong-Hee Lee, Cedomir Stefanovic, Mathini Sellathurai, Henk Wymeersch, Tharmalingam Ratnarajah
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

6G Native AI and Channel Foundation Models

arXiv:2608. 14591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and wireless communications is widely regarded as a core objective of sixth-generation (6G) systems.

By Shugong Xu, Jun Jiang, Yuan Gao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

A Unified Adaptive Feature Composition Framework for Multi-Task Generalization in Wireless Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 10277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Though wireless foundation models (WFMs) have shown strong potential in learning universal channel representations, their adaptation to various downstream tasks remains constrained by existing paradigms.

By Yuxuan Shi, Tingting Yang, Kangning Ma, Liwen Jing, Yuwei Wang, Mengfan Zheng, Li Sun