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Main Authors: Timilsina, Subash, Shrestha, Sagar, Cheng, Lei, Fu, Xiao
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14116
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author Timilsina, Subash
Shrestha, Sagar
Cheng, Lei
Fu, Xiao
author_facet Timilsina, Subash
Shrestha, Sagar
Cheng, Lei
Fu, Xiao
contents Spectrum cartography (SC) focuses on estimating the radio power propagation map of multiple emitters across space and frequency using limited sensor measurements. Recent advances in SC have shown that leveraging learned deep generative models (DGMs) as structural constraints yields state-of-the-art performance. By harnessing the expressive power of neural networks, these structural "priors" capture intricate patterns in radio maps. However, training DGMs requires substantial data, which is not always available, and distribution shifts between training and testing data can further degrade performance. To address these challenges, this work proposes using untrained neural networks (UNNs) for SC. UNNs, commonly applied in vision tasks to represent complex data without training, encode structural information of data in neural architectures. In our approach, a custom-designed UNN represents radio maps under a spatio-spectral domain factorization model, leveraging physical characteristics to reduce sample complexity of SC. Experiments show that the method achieves performance comparable to learned DGM-based SC, without requiring training data.
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spellingShingle Domain-Factored Untrained Deep Prior for Spectrum Cartography
Timilsina, Subash
Shrestha, Sagar
Cheng, Lei
Fu, Xiao
Signal Processing
Spectrum cartography (SC) focuses on estimating the radio power propagation map of multiple emitters across space and frequency using limited sensor measurements. Recent advances in SC have shown that leveraging learned deep generative models (DGMs) as structural constraints yields state-of-the-art performance. By harnessing the expressive power of neural networks, these structural "priors" capture intricate patterns in radio maps. However, training DGMs requires substantial data, which is not always available, and distribution shifts between training and testing data can further degrade performance. To address these challenges, this work proposes using untrained neural networks (UNNs) for SC. UNNs, commonly applied in vision tasks to represent complex data without training, encode structural information of data in neural architectures. In our approach, a custom-designed UNN represents radio maps under a spatio-spectral domain factorization model, leveraging physical characteristics to reduce sample complexity of SC. Experiments show that the method achieves performance comparable to learned DGM-based SC, without requiring training data.
title Domain-Factored Untrained Deep Prior for Spectrum Cartography
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14116