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Large Language Models for Telecom: Forthcoming Impact on the Industry

arXiv 2308.06013 ↗First posted 11 Aug 2023cs.IT cs.AI cs.LGcited by 44

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Abstract (arXiv)

Large Language Models (LLMs), AI-driven models that can achieve general-purpose language understanding and generation, have emerged as a transformative force, revolutionizing fields well beyond Natural Language Processing (NLP) and garnering unprecedented attention. As LLM technology continues to progress, the telecom industry is facing the prospect of its impact on its landscape. To elucidate these implications, we delve into the inner workings of LLMs, providing insights into their current capabilities and limitations. We also examine the use cases that can be readily implemented in the telecom industry, streamlining tasks, such as anomalies resolutions and technical specifications comprehension, which currently hinder operational efficiency and demand significant manpower and expertise. Furthermore, we uncover essential research directions that deal with the distinctive challenges of utilizing the LLMs within the telecom domain. Addressing them represents a significant stride towards fully harnessing the potential of LLMs and unlocking their capabilities to the fullest extent within the telecom domain.

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  1. 2023TeleQnA: A Benchmark Dataset to Assess Large Language Models Telecommunications Knowledgecited by 63
  2. 2024WirelessLLM: Empowering Large Language Models Towards Wireless Intelligencecited by 44
  3. 2024TSpec-LLM: An Open-source Dataset for LLM Understanding of 3GPP Specificationscited by 27
  4. 2024Telco-RAG: Navigating the Challenges of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models for Telecommunicationscited by 26
  5. 2024Tele-LLMs: A Series of Specialized Large Language Models for Telecommunicationscited by 25
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  4. 2025A Survey of Inductive Reasoning for Large Language Modelscited by 8
  5. 2024Hermes: A Large Language Model Framework on the Journey to Autonomous Networkscited by 6
  6. 2025TeleTables: A Benchmark for Large Language Models in Telecom Table Interpretationcited by 6
  7. 2025Chat3GPP: An Open-Source Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for 3GPP Documentscited by 5
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  9. 2025TelecomTS: A Multi-Modal Observability Dataset for Time Series and Language Analysiscited by 5
  10. 2024Qualitative Insights Tool (QualIT): LLM Enhanced Topic Modelingcited by 4
  11. 2024Toward Intelligent and Secure Cloud: Large Language Model Empowered Proactive Defensecited by 4
  12. 2024Telco-DPR: A Hybrid Dataset for Evaluating Retrieval Models of 3GPP Technical Specificationscited by 3
  13. 2024TelcoLM: collecting data, adapting, and benchmarking language models for the telecommunication domaincited by 3
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  18. 2025Energy-Aware LLMs: A step towards sustainable AI for downstream applicationscited by 1
  19. 2025TeleEval-OS: Performance evaluations of large language models for operations schedulingcited by 1
  20. 2025Lightweight Task-Oriented Semantic Communication Empowered by Large-Scale AI Modelscited by 1
  21. 2025Evaluating Open-Source Large Language Models for Technical Telecom Question Answeringcited by 1
  22. 2026Towards Resilient and Autonomous Networks: A BlueSky Vision on AI-Native 6Gcited by 1
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  25. 2024WirelessAgent: Large Language Model Agents for Intelligent Wireless Networkscited by 0
  26. 2025Knowledge Distillation of Domain-adapted LLMs for Question-Answering in Telecomcited by 0
  27. 2025MM-Telco: Benchmarks and Multimodal Large Language Models for Telecom Applicationscited by 0
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  29. 2026LLM-assisted gNB Parameter Configuration for Radio Access Networkcited by 0
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