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Heasung Kim

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Foundation-Preserving Adaptation via Generalized Rayleigh-Quotient Optimization

While finetuning effectively adapts foundation models to specialized downstream tasks, it can degrade nontarget capabilities acquired during pretraining. Existing forgetting aware methods typically seek safer updates through specialized initialization or fixed constraints, but do not regulate the adaptation preservation trade-off during training. We propose Foundation Preserving LoRA (FoLoRA), a forgetting aware optimization framework. Guided by a first order preservation condition, FoLoRA defines a forgetting penalty over pretraining-proxy activations and a task utility over downstream task activations. It then scores update directions by task utility per unit forgetting penalty via a generalized Rayleigh quotient. The resulting spectral coordinate system enables direction wise gated Adam updates, attenuating low utility to penalty directions during training. To estimate the forgetting penalty, FoLoRA constructs pretraining proxy calibration data by sampling from the pretrained model rather than relying on a single proxy dataset. Experiments on math, code, and instruction following adaptation show that FoLoRA achieves the strongest preservation adaptation balance over baselines, improving target task performance with best aggregate preservation of non target capabilities.

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DiffLoc: Diffusion Model-Based High-Precision Positioning for 6G Networks

This paper introduces a novel framework for high-accuracy outdoor user equipment (UE) positioning that applies a conditional generative diffusion model directly to high-dimensional massive MIMO channel state information (CSI). Traditional fingerprinting methods struggle to scale to large, dynamic outdoor environments and require dense, impractical data surveys. To overcome these limitations, our approach learns a direct mapping from raw uplink Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) fingerprints to continuous geographic coordinates. We demonstrate that our DiffLoc framework achieves unprecedented sub-centimeter precision, with our best model (DiffLoc-CT) delivering 0.5 cm fusion accuracy and 1-2 cm single base station (BS) accuracy in a realistic, ray-traced Tokyo urban macro-cell environment. This represents an order-of-magnitude improvement over existing methods, including supervised regression approaches (over 10 m error) and grid-based fusion (3 m error). Our consistency training approach reduces inference time from 200 steps to just 2 steps while maintaining exceptional accuracy even for high-speed users (15-25 m/s) and unseen user trajectories, demonstrating the practical feasibility of our framework for real-time 6G applications.

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Residual Diffusion Models for Variable-Rate Joint Source Channel Coding of MIMO CSI

Despite significant advancements in deep learning based CSI compression, some key limitations remain unaddressed. Current approaches predominantly treat CSI compression as a source-coding problem, thereby neglecting transmission errors. Conventional separate source and channel coding suffers from the cliff effect, leading to significant deterioration in reconstruction performance under challenging channel conditions. While existing autoencoder-based compression schemes can be readily extended to support joint source-channel coding, they struggle to capture complex channel distributions and exhibit poor scalability with increasing parameter count. To overcome these inherent limitations of autoencoder-based approaches, we propose Residual-Diffusion Joint Source-Channel Coding (RD- JSCC), a novel framework that integrates a lightweight autoencoder with a residual diffusion module to iteratively refine CSI reconstruction. Our flexible decoding strategy balances computational efficiency and performance by dynamically switching between low-complexity autoencoder decoding and sophisticated diffusion-based refinement based on channel conditions. Comprehensive simulations demonstrate that RD-JSCC significantly outperforms existing autoencoder-based approaches in challenging wireless environments. Furthermore, RD-JSCC offers several practical features, including a low-latency 2-step diffusion during inference, support for multiple compression rates with a single model, robustness to fixed-bit quantization, and adaptability to imperfect channel estimation.

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Efficient Weighted Sampling via Score-based Generative Models

Weighted sampling -- sampling from a probability density function (PDF) proportional to the product of a base PDF and a weight function -- is a fundamental technique with wide-ranging applications in variance reduction, biased sampling, data augmentation, and more. Leveraging the increasing availability of pretrained score-based generative models (SGMs), we propose a training-free weighted sampling framework that approximates the backward diffusion process of the target distribution by augmenting the pretrained base score function with an auxiliary guidance term, in a principled and computationally efficient manner. Our approach builds on two key components: a lightweight approximation of the guidance that avoids costly higher-order derivatives of both the score and weight functions, and an uncertainty-aware scheduler that dynamically adjusts the guidance strength based on a temporal analysis of approximation error. Together, these components enable accurate and stable sampling without relying on particle-based resampling or Hessian evaluations commonly required by existing methods. We validate the effectiveness of our method from synthetic to large-scale settings such as Stable Diffusion XL, where our framework achieves $1.2\times$ to $4.7\times$ speedups while consistently matching or outperforming state-of-the-art baselines in task performance. These results position our method as a scalable and inference-efficient solution for task-adaptive, time-sensitive sampling in generative applications.

cs.LG

Generative Diffusion Model-based Compression of MIMO CSI

While neural lossy compression techniques have markedly advanced the efficiency of Channel State Information (CSI) compression and reconstruction for feedback in MIMO communications, efficient algorithms for more challenging and practical tasks-such as CSI compression for future channel prediction and reconstruction with relevant side information-remain underexplored, often resulting in suboptimal performance when existing methods are extended to these scenarios. To that end, we propose a novel framework for compression with side information, featuring an encoding process with fixed-rate compression using a trainable codebook for codeword quantization, and a decoding procedure modeled as a backward diffusion process conditioned on both the codeword and the side information. Experimental results show that our method significantly outperforms existing CSI compression algorithms, often yielding over twofold performance improvement by achieving comparable distortion at less than half the data rate of competing methods in certain scenarios. These findings underscore the potential of diffusion-based compression for practical deployment in communication systems.

cs.IT

Learning RL-Policies for Joint Beamforming Without Exploration: A Batch Constrained Off-Policy Approach

In this work, we consider the problem of network parameter optimization for rate maximization. We frame this as a joint optimization problem of power control, beam forming, and interference cancellation. We consider the setting where multiple Base Stations (BSs) communicate with multiple user equipment (UEs). Because of the exponential computational complexity of brute force search, we instead solve this nonconvex optimization problem using deep reinforcement learning (RL) techniques. Modern communication systems are notorious for their difficulty in exactly modeling their behavior. This limits us in using RL-based algorithms as interaction with the environment is needed for the agent to explore and learn efficiently. Further, it is ill-advised to deploy the algorithm in the real world for exploration and learning because of the high cost of failure. In contrast to the previous RL-based solutions proposed, such as deep-Q network (DQN) based control, we suggest an offline model-based approach. We specifically consider discrete batch-constrained deep Q-learning (BCQ) and show that performance similar to DQN can be achieved with only a fraction of the data without exploring. This maximizes sample efficiency and minimizes risk in deploying a new algorithm to commercial networks. We provide the entire project resource, including code and data, at the following link: https://github.com/Heasung-Kim/ safe-rl-deployment-for-5g.

cs.LG

A Deep Learning Approach for Automotive Radar Interference Mitigation

In automotive systems, a radar is a key component of autonomous driving. Using transmit and reflected radar signal by a target, we can capture the target range and velocity. However, when interference signals exist, noise floor increases and it severely affects the detectability of target objects. For these reasons, previous studies have been proposed to cancel interference or reconstruct original signals. However, the conventional signal processing methods for canceling the interference or reconstructing the transmit signals are difficult tasks, and also have many restrictions. In this work, we propose a novel approach to mitigate interference using deep learning. The proposed method provides high performance in various interference conditions and has low processing time. Moreover, we show that our proposed method achieves better performance compared to existing signal processing methods.

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