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:2605.00968v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Wireless foundation models (WFMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for unified channel state information (CSI) acquisition across diverse...
By Chenyu Zhang, Xinchen Lyu, Chenshan Ren, Yanzhao Hou, Xuefei Zhang, Shuhan Liu, Qimei Cui
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:2607. 02567v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) provides a physical-layer credential for Internet of Things devices, but open-set decisions become fragile when a threshold calibrated on a source receiver is applied to a target receiver.
By Fengchong Yao, Jianbing Li, Qing Liu, Kefeng Song, Haitao Li, Song Wang, Feixiang Wang
arXiv:2608. 08439v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Heterogeneous RF sensing differs substantially in feature structure, spatial layout, and temporal scale, making existing models difficult to reuse across devices, environments, and RF modalities.
By Jing Wang, Zhu Wang, Changlong Cheng, Yifan Guo, Yin Zhang
The paper introduces a self‑localizing MIMO beam‑mapping framework that builds a hierarchical wireless memory using sparse channel state information (CSI) without explicit location labels. It employs beam‑domain RSS as compact inputs, a dual‑scale extractor for angular and temporal dependencies, and a hybrid temporal encoder to infer physical anchors that index a structured radio map. The radio‑map embedding enables continuous updates and full‑CSI reconstruction, yielding over 30% better anchor recovery and more than 20% channel‑capacity gains in NLOS beam tracking compared to Kalman‑filter methods.
By Wangqian Chen, Junting Chen, Shuguang Cui
WiNeRF is a neural field framework that learns a spatially continuous, complex-valued wireless channel representation from sparse channel state information collected by commodity WiFi devices. It incorporates system constraints such as antenna geometry, limited spatial resolution, and phase uncertainty through a 3D conical wave sampling model, a multi-resolution implicit scene representation, and a differentiable optimization framework. In diverse indoor environments with non‑line‑of‑sight regions, WiNeRF achieves a median prediction SNR of 5.3 dB, outperforming prior neural baselines by 4.9 dB on average, and produces a task‑agnostic channel representation that can be reused in standard signal‑processing pipelines without hardware or protocol changes.
By Saif Ur Rahman, Rafid Umayer Murshed, Anton Dmitriev, Cagri Tanriover, Rahul C. Shah, Elah\'e Soltanaghai
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:2609.32923v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Wireless digital twins (DTs) rely on 3D environment models to predict radio propagation and support wireless-network decisions, yet these models ar...
By Saad Masrur, Saeed R. Khosravirad, Ismail Guvenc
arXiv:2511. 17007v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Open and intelligent radio access networks (RANs) envisioned for 6G require accurate and reusable wireless channel knowledge for intelligent inference and control.
By Wangqian Chen, Junting Chen, Shuguang Cui
TARGet is an open‑source, topology‑aware machine‑learning framework for modeling RF circuits. It uses S‑parameter representations of sub‑circuits and a fusion architecture that combines Graph Neural Networks with sub‑circuit connectivity‑aware networks, enabling learning across multiple topologies. Experiments show TARGet achieves sub‑1% prediction error, reduces training data needs by up to 35.5×, and improves accuracy by 9.7× over state‑of‑the‑art models, with zero‑shot transfer to unseen sub‑circuit topologies.
By Soroosh Noorzad, Sebastian Bodero, Morteza Fayazi
The paper introduces a physics‑informed autoencoder that separates reflector speed from sensing geometry in WiFi spectrograms, enabling joint recovery of speed, geometry factor, relative amplitude, and ridge width for each Doppler ridge. It builds a compact parametric representation of spectrograms validated on a large human‑activity dataset and employs a synthetic‑to‑real training framework to avoid real‑data collection. Experiments on synthetic and 31 real WiFi scenarios show the method outperforms existing baselines in accurately extracting speed and geometry information.
By Mert Torun, Darius Cuenca, Yasamin Mostofi