Self-Supervised Radio Pre-training: Toward Foundational Models for Spectrogram Learning

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Main Authors: Aboulfotouh, Ahmed, Eshaghbeigi, Ashkan, Karslidis, Dimitrios, Abou-Zeid, Hatem
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Published: 2024
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author Aboulfotouh, Ahmed
Eshaghbeigi, Ashkan
Karslidis, Dimitrios
Abou-Zeid, Hatem
author_facet Aboulfotouh, Ahmed
Eshaghbeigi, Ashkan
Karslidis, Dimitrios
Abou-Zeid, Hatem
contents Foundational deep learning (DL) models are general models, trained on large, diverse, and unlabelled datasets, typically using self-supervised learning techniques have led to significant advancements especially in natural language processing. These pretrained models can be fine-tuned for related downstream tasks, offering faster development and reduced training costs, while often achieving improved performance. In this work, we introduce Masked Spectrogram Modeling, a novel self-supervised learning approach for pretraining foundational DL models on radio signals. Adopting a Convolutional LSTM architecture for efficient spatio-temporal processing, we pretrain the model with an unlabelled radio dataset collected from over-the-air measurements. Subsequently, the pretrained model is fine-tuned for two downstream tasks: spectrum forecasting and segmentation. Experimental results demonstrate that our methodology achieves competitive performance in both forecasting accuracy and segmentation, validating its effectiveness for developing foundational radio models.
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spellingShingle Self-Supervised Radio Pre-training: Toward Foundational Models for Spectrogram Learning
Aboulfotouh, Ahmed
Eshaghbeigi, Ashkan
Karslidis, Dimitrios
Abou-Zeid, Hatem
Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Networking and Internet Architecture
Foundational deep learning (DL) models are general models, trained on large, diverse, and unlabelled datasets, typically using self-supervised learning techniques have led to significant advancements especially in natural language processing. These pretrained models can be fine-tuned for related downstream tasks, offering faster development and reduced training costs, while often achieving improved performance. In this work, we introduce Masked Spectrogram Modeling, a novel self-supervised learning approach for pretraining foundational DL models on radio signals. Adopting a Convolutional LSTM architecture for efficient spatio-temporal processing, we pretrain the model with an unlabelled radio dataset collected from over-the-air measurements. Subsequently, the pretrained model is fine-tuned for two downstream tasks: spectrum forecasting and segmentation. Experimental results demonstrate that our methodology achieves competitive performance in both forecasting accuracy and segmentation, validating its effectiveness for developing foundational radio models.
title Self-Supervised Radio Pre-training: Toward Foundational Models for Spectrogram Learning
topic Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09849