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
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: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:2606. 06373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wireless foundation models have emerged as a promising alternative to building separate models for each wireless task.
By Ahmed Mohamed, Ahmed Aboulfotouh, Hatem Abou-Zeid
arXiv:2606.10277v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Mobile systems increasingly rely on heterogeneous learning-enabled wireless functions, for which separate taskspecific models incur redundant train...
By Yuxuan Shi, Tingting Yang, Li Sun, Liwen Jing, Kangning Ma, Yuwei Wang, Mengfan Zheng
arXiv:2608. 14694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models are emerging as a transformative paradigm for AI-native sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks by enabling scalable, transferable, and data-efficient intelligence across diverse communication tasks.
By Naveed Khan, Besan Al Sbeihi, Maryam Alshehhi, Nasir Saeed
arXiv:2509. 11056v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is anticipated to emerge as a pivotal enabler for the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication systems.
By Yuhang Li, Yang Lu, Wei Chen, Bo Ai, Zhiguo Ding
arXiv:2606. 29640v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While wireless foundation models (FMs) are demonstrating strong potential to enable AI-Native 6G networks, their high computational cost remains a critical barrier to deployment.
By Omar Mashaal, Hatem Abou-Zeid
Recent advances in machine learning have enabled training of wireless foundation models, which aim to support tasks such as channel estimation, beam prediction, and localization based on wireless signals. Existing wireless foundation models typically pretrain on channel tensors using masked reconstruction over subcarriers, antennas, or time but ignore the physical characteristics of wireless propagation.
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:2507. 09627v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Next-generation wireless technologies such as 6G aim to meet demanding requirements such as ultra-high data rates, low latency, and enhanced connectivity.
By Muhammad Kamran Saeed, Ashfaq Khokhar, Shakil Ahmed
arXiv:2606. 00120v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper proposes SpikeWFM, a novel hybrid architecture that integrates spiking neural networks (SNNs) with conventional artificial neural network (ANN)-based transformers for wireless foundation models (WFMs).
By Liwen Jing, Yisha Lu, Tingting Yang, Li Sun, Yuxuan Shi, Yuwei Wang, Mengfan Zheng, Leiyang Xu