Wireless Foundation Models: State-of-the-Art and Open Challenges
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arXiv:2609.04707v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wireless foundation models (WFMs) have emerged as a promising approach for learning reusable representations from large-scale wireless data and adapting them to downstream tasks. However, the rapidly growing literature remains fragmented across modalities, pretraining objectives, architectures, adaptation strategies, and evaluation protocols, making it difficult to assess progress toward broadly transferable models. This survey provides a systematic analysis of WFMs for physical-layer applications. We first introduce the main WFM design compone
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- arXiv:2609.04707v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wireless foundation models (WFMs) have emerged as a promising approach for learning reusable representations from large-scale wireless data and adapting them to downstream tasks.
- However, the rapidly growing literature remains fragmented across modalities, pretraining objectives, architectures, adaptation strategies, and evaluation protocols, making it difficult to assess progress toward broadly transferable models.
- This survey provides a systematic analysis of WFMs for physical-layer applications.
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