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Record W4416650074 · doi:10.1109/tcomm.2025.3637109

Enhancing Massive MIMO Symbol Detection in Unknown Noise Environments: A Generative Modeling Approach

2025· article· W4416650074 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Communications · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicWireless Signal Modulation Classification
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNoise (video)DetectorGaussian noisePrior probabilityMIMOBenchmark (surveying)Probability density functionDetection theorySymbol (formal)

Abstract

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This paper presents a novel symbol detection method for massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (m-MIMO) systems, addressing the challenges posed by unknown additive noise distributions. While the optimal MIMO detector under uniform priors is the Maximum Likelihood (ML) detector, its implementation depends on accurate knowledge of the noise distribution which is often inaccessible. Furthermore, for some types of additive noise, such as impulsive noise, the probability density function (PDF) does not admit a closed-form expression, making ML detection infeasible. In our approach, we exploit the favorable propagation properties of m-MIMO systems to obtain a reliable initial estimate of the transmitted symbol vector using a simple zero-forcing (ZF) detector. We then generate a limited number of random points from the input symbol constellation in a restricted neighborhood around the ZF estimate. These points are subsequently used to obtain samples from the unknown noise distribution, which are mapped to a latent space typically (but not necessarily) characterized by a Gaussian distribution, where approximate ML detection can be performed. We benchmark our proposed detector, called Zero-Forcing based Latent Space Symbol Detector (ZF-LSSD) against existing methods across various m-MIMO configurations and noise scenarios. Numerical simulations show that our detector consistently outperforms these methods in diverse additive noise environments.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.954
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0030.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.273
Teacher spread0.233 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it