Large Wireless Model (LWM): A Foundation Model for Wireless Channels

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Main Authors: Alikhani, Sadjad, Charan, Gouranga, Alkhateeb, Ahmed
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Published: 2024
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author Alikhani, Sadjad
Charan, Gouranga
Alkhateeb, Ahmed
author_facet Alikhani, Sadjad
Charan, Gouranga
Alkhateeb, Ahmed
contents This paper presents Large Wireless Model (LWM) -- the world's first foundation model for wireless channels. Designed as a task-agnostic model, LWM generates universal, rich, contextualized channel embeddings (features) that potentially enhance performance across a wide range of downstream tasks in wireless communication and sensing systems. Towards this objective, LWM, which has a transformer-based architecture, was pre-trained in a self-supervised manner on large-scale wireless channel datasets. Our results show consistent improvements in downstream tasks when using the LWM embeddings compared to raw channel representations, especially in scenarios with high-complexity machine learning tasks and limited training datasets. This LWM's ability to learn from large-scale wireless data opens a promising direction for intelligent systems that can efficiently adapt to diverse tasks with limited data, paving the way for addressing key challenges in wireless communication and sensing systems.
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spellingShingle Large Wireless Model (LWM): A Foundation Model for Wireless Channels
Alikhani, Sadjad
Charan, Gouranga
Alkhateeb, Ahmed
Information Theory
Signal Processing
This paper presents Large Wireless Model (LWM) -- the world's first foundation model for wireless channels. Designed as a task-agnostic model, LWM generates universal, rich, contextualized channel embeddings (features) that potentially enhance performance across a wide range of downstream tasks in wireless communication and sensing systems. Towards this objective, LWM, which has a transformer-based architecture, was pre-trained in a self-supervised manner on large-scale wireless channel datasets. Our results show consistent improvements in downstream tasks when using the LWM embeddings compared to raw channel representations, especially in scenarios with high-complexity machine learning tasks and limited training datasets. This LWM's ability to learn from large-scale wireless data opens a promising direction for intelligent systems that can efficiently adapt to diverse tasks with limited data, paving the way for addressing key challenges in wireless communication and sensing systems.
title Large Wireless Model (LWM): A Foundation Model for Wireless Channels
topic Information Theory
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08872