Evolving Inspectable O-RAN Slicing xApps with LLMs
Quick summary
arXiv:2609.27337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open RAN (O-RAN) slicing xApps must adapt resource allocations to changing channel conditions and traffic demands while meeting service-level agreements (SLAs). Deep reinforcement learning can produce adaptive policies, but their allocation rules remain encoded in neural-network parameters. Our goal is to retain this adaptability while making the controller's decision logic directly inspectable and editable by operators. We use a large language model (LLM) to evolve slicing controllers as compact Python programs whose decision logic remains rea
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.27337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open RAN (O-RAN) slicing xApps must adapt resource allocations to changing channel conditions and traffic demands while meeting service-level agreements (SLAs).
- Deep reinforcement learning can produce adaptive policies, but their allocation rules remain encoded in neural-network parameters.
- Our goal is to retain this adaptability while making the controller's decision logic directly inspectable and editable by operators.
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