arrow
Return

Generative Diffusion Models for High Dimensional Channel Estimation

delete2025-07-01
delete0
PRE
AI
X
Xingyu Zhou
L
Le Liang
J
Jing Zhang
P
Peiwen Jiang
Y
Yong Li
石
石瑾 (Shi Jin)
DOI:10.1109/TWC.2025.3549592delete
deleteOriginal
deleteOriginal request for help
deleteShare
deleteSave
Abstract

Abstract

En 中文
Along with the prosperity of generative artificial intelligence (AI), its potential for solving conventional challenges in wireless communications has also surfaced. Inspired by this trend, we investigate the application of the advanced diffusion models (DMs), a representative class of generative AI models, to high dimensional wireless channel estimation. By capturing the structure of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless channels via a deep generative prior encoded by DMs, we develop a novel posterior inference method for channel reconstruction. We further adapt the proposed method to recover channel information from low-resolution quantized measurements. Additionally, to enhance the over-the-air viability, we integrate the DM with the unsupervised Stein’s unbiased risk estimator to enable learning from noisy observations and circumvent the requirements for ground truth channel data that is hardly available in practice. Results reveal that the proposed estimator achieves high-fidelity channel recovery while reducing estimation latency by a factor of 10 compared to state-of-the-art schemes, facilitating real-time implementation. Moreover, our method outperforms existing estimators while reducing the pilot overhead by half, showcasing its scalability to ultra-massive antenna arrays.
Keywords:
MIMO channel estimation
deep learning
diffusion models
generative AI

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications cover
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IF:
10.7
Papers:
1.3W
Citations:
5.3W

Organization

S
Southeast University
Scholars:
2.1W
Papers: 8.6K
Citations: 480
Cited Papers

Cited Papers

High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
err2022-06-01
err0
errOAAI
errRobin Rombach; Andreas Blattmann; Dominik Lorenz; Patrick Esser; Bjorn Ommer
errShare
errSave
Diffusion-Based Generative Prior for Low-Complexity MIMO Channel Estimation
err2024-12-01
err0
errOAAI
errBenedikt Fesl; Michael Baur; Florian Strasser; Michael Joham; Wolfgang Utschick
errShare
errSave
errShare
errSave
Deep Learning based Channel Extrapolation for Large-Scale Antenna Systems: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions
err2021-12-01
err24
errOAAI
errZhang, Shun; Liu, Yushan; Gao, Feifei; Xing, Chengwen; An, Jianping; Dobre, Octavia A.
errShare
errSave
researcher View more