arXiv Machine Learning By Guozhen Zhu, Yuqian Hu, Sakila Jayaweera, Weihang Gao, Wei-Hsiang Wang, Jiaxuan Zhang, Beibei Wang, Chenshu Wu, K. J. Ray Liu

AmbientFM: A Foundation Model for Ambient Sensing

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AmbientFM is a foundation model designed for ambient sensing using ubiquitous WiFi signals. It is pre‑trained on 9.2 million unlabeled Channel State Information samples collected over 439 days from 20 commercial devices in real homes, making it the largest real‑world WiFi CSI pre‑training corpus reported to date. The model learns transferable wireless representations through contrastive learning, masked reconstruction, and physics‑informed objectives, and with lightweight adaptation it can transfer to nine downstream tasks, achieving above 0.90 AUROC on all classification benchmarks and supporting dense spatial reconstruction.

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