PilotWiMAE: Pilot-Native Representation Learning for Wireless Channels

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arXiv:2605.22856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Channel foundation models assume access to fully observed channels, an assumption that fails in deployment. We introduce PilotWiMAE, a self-supervised framework whose encoder ingests noisy pilot observations directly and whose attention factorizes along the axis separating temporal from joint space-frequency processing, an inductive bias inspired by the physics of the problem. Pilot input shrinks the observation space by up to two orders of magni

Published 25 May 2026

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Title: PilotWiMAE: Pilot-Native Representation Learning for Wireless Channels

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arXiv:2605.22856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Channel foundation models assume access to fully observed channels, an assumption that fails in deployment. We introduce PilotWiMAE, a self-supervised framework whose encoder ingests noisy pilot observations directly and whose attention factorizes along the axis separating temporal from joint space-frequency processing, an inductive bias inspired by the physics of the problem. Pilot input shrinks the observation space by up to two orders of magni
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