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Hauptverfasser: Qiu, Feng, Fang, Zheng, Zhang, Shuhang, Liu, Kangjun, Zou, Longkun, Liu, Jing, Chen, Ke
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Qiu, Feng
Fang, Zheng
Zhang, Shuhang
Liu, Kangjun
Zou, Longkun
Liu, Jing
Chen, Ke
author_facet Qiu, Feng
Fang, Zheng
Zhang, Shuhang
Liu, Kangjun
Zou, Longkun
Liu, Jing
Chen, Ke
contents Learning-based radio map estimation (RME) plays a critical role in UAV-assisted wireless sensing, enabling tasks such as coverage prediction and network optimization. Most current methods assume an independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.) training and testing setting based on random sampling. However, practical UAV measurements are collected sequentially along feasible trajectories, resulting in highly structured and spatially correlated patterns. This mismatch introduces a sampling distribution shift that increases the intrinsic difficulty of spatial field recovery and compromises the generalization of models trained under i.i.d. assumptions. To mitigate this issue, we propose a trajectory-aware training paradigm based on Stochastic-Triggered Trajectory-Based Sampling (ST-TBS), which preserves trajectory continuity while introducing sampling variability. Moreover, from a statistical perspective, we show that trajectory-based sampling reduces spatial diversity and increases information redundancy compared to random sampling. Extensive experiments on the RadioMapSeer and SpectrumNet datasets demonstrate that models trained with random sampling suffer significant performance degradation under trajectory-based observations, with RMSE increasing from 0.0391 to 0.2632 on SpectrumNet. Conversely, our proposed ST-TBS method effectively reduces the RMSE to 0.0571. These results highlight the necessity of aligning training and deployment sampling distributions for reliable RME.
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spellingShingle Bridging the Sampling Distribution Shift in Radio Map Estimation: A Trajectory-Aware Paradigm
Qiu, Feng
Fang, Zheng
Zhang, Shuhang
Liu, Kangjun
Zou, Longkun
Liu, Jing
Chen, Ke
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Learning-based radio map estimation (RME) plays a critical role in UAV-assisted wireless sensing, enabling tasks such as coverage prediction and network optimization. Most current methods assume an independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.) training and testing setting based on random sampling. However, practical UAV measurements are collected sequentially along feasible trajectories, resulting in highly structured and spatially correlated patterns. This mismatch introduces a sampling distribution shift that increases the intrinsic difficulty of spatial field recovery and compromises the generalization of models trained under i.i.d. assumptions. To mitigate this issue, we propose a trajectory-aware training paradigm based on Stochastic-Triggered Trajectory-Based Sampling (ST-TBS), which preserves trajectory continuity while introducing sampling variability. Moreover, from a statistical perspective, we show that trajectory-based sampling reduces spatial diversity and increases information redundancy compared to random sampling. Extensive experiments on the RadioMapSeer and SpectrumNet datasets demonstrate that models trained with random sampling suffer significant performance degradation under trajectory-based observations, with RMSE increasing from 0.0391 to 0.2632 on SpectrumNet. Conversely, our proposed ST-TBS method effectively reduces the RMSE to 0.0571. These results highlight the necessity of aligning training and deployment sampling distributions for reliable RME.
title Bridging the Sampling Distribution Shift in Radio Map Estimation: A Trajectory-Aware Paradigm
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28234