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MIMO Channel Estimation Using Transformer-Based Generative Diffusion Models

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Wanyu Song
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Jun Zhang
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Shuo Yang
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Yong Li
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Yiyang Ni
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石瑾 (Shi Jin)
DOI:10.1109/tvt.2026.3680259delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Recent researches indicate that artificial intelligence (AI) holds significant potential for channel estimation. However, most existing AI-based channel estimators rely on training channel samples, leading to reduced estimation accuracy on out-of-distribution data. To address this problem, we propose a robust channel estimator for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system called Transformer-based diffusion model (TDM), which is trained under an unsupervised process and independent of channel distribution. We perform the Transformer structure to accurately denoise from noisy channel matrix. A posterior sampling is developed at inference time to channel reconstruction. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority and out-of-distribution robustness of the TDM scheme.
Keywords:
MIMO channel estimation
generative AI
diffusion models
attention mechanism

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IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology cover
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
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nanjing university of posts and telecommunications
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academy of network and communications of cetc
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Jiangsu Second Normal University
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488
Papers: 437
Citations: 357
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Southeast University
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