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RF-Diffusion: Radio Signal Generation via Time-Frequency Diffusion

arXiv 2404.09140 ↗First posted 14 Apr 2024cs.LG cs.IT eess.SPcited by 41

On the map: Diffusion models → Diffusion for compression and wireless

Abstract (arXiv)

Along with AIGC shines in CV and NLP, its potential in the wireless domain has also emerged in recent years. Yet, existing RF-oriented generative solutions are ill-suited for generating high-quality, time-series RF data due to limited representation capabilities. In this work, inspired by the stellar achievements of the diffusion model in CV and NLP, we adapt it to the RF domain and propose RF-Diffusion. To accommodate the unique characteristics of RF signals, we first introduce a novel Time-Frequency Diffusion theory to enhance the original diffusion model, enabling it to tap into the information within the time, frequency, and complex-valued domains of RF signals. On this basis, we propose a Hierarchical Diffusion Transformer to translate the theory into a practical generative DNN through elaborated design spanning network architecture, functional block, and complex-valued operator, making RF-Diffusion a versatile solution to generate diverse, high-quality, and time-series RF data. Performance comparison with three prevalent generative models demonstrates the RF-Diffusion's superior performance in synthesizing Wi-Fi and FMCW signals. We also showcase the versatility of RF-Diffusion in boosting Wi-Fi sensing systems and performing channel estimation in 5G networks.

Key facts. Cited by 41 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Diffusion for compression and wireless, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 36 of its 81 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 14 Apr 2024.

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  1. 2024A Survey on Diffusion Models for Time Series and Spatio-Temporal Datacited by 66
  2. 2025Towards Agentic AI Networking in 6G: A Generative Foundation Model-as-Agent Approachcited by 19
  3. 2024Diffusion Models as Network Optimizers: Explorations and Analysiscited by 13
  4. 2025Generative Diffusion Models for Wireless Networks: Fundamental, Architecture, and State-of-the-Artcited by 13
  5. 2024RFBoost: Understanding and Boosting Deep WiFi Sensing via Physical Data Augmentationcited by 9
  6. 2024Radar and Camera Fusion for Object Detection and Tracking: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 9
  7. 2025RadarLLM: Empowering Large Language Models to Understand Human Motion from Millimeter-Wave Point Cloud Sequencecited by 7
  8. 2024Constrained Posterior Sampling: Time Series Generation with Hard Constraintscited by 6
  9. 2025Diffusion Models for Future Networks and Communications: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 6
  10. 2024Generative AI for Data Augmentation in Wireless Networks: Analysis, Applications, and Case Studycited by 4
  11. 2025Data Can Speak for Itself: Quality-guided Utilization of Wireless Synthetic Datacited by 4
  12. 2025Neural Reflectance Fields for Radio-Frequency Ray Tracingcited by 3
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  1. 2025Generative Diffusion Receivers: Achieving Pilot-Efficient MIMO-OFDM Communicationscited by 3
  2. 2025EMind: A Foundation Model for Multi-task Electromagnetic Signals Understandingcited by 3
  3. 2025Radio Propagation Modelling: To Differentiate or To Deep Learn, That Is The Questioncited by 3
  4. 2025Noise-Robust Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification Using Denoise Diffusion Modelcited by 2
  5. 2025A Comprehensive Survey on Network Traffic Synthesis: From Statistical Models to Deep Learningcited by 2
  6. 2025Scalable RF Simulation in Generative 4D Worldscited by 2
  7. 2025mmExpert: Integrating Large Language Models for Comprehensive mmWave Data Synthesis and Understandingcited by 2
  8. 2025WaveletDiff: Multilevel Wavelet Diffusion For Time Series Generationcited by 2
  9. 2025RISE: Single Static Radar-based Indoor Scene Understandingcited by 2
  10. 2024SANDWICH: Towards an Offline, Differentiable, Fully-Trainable Wireless Neural Ray-Tracing Surrogatecited by 1
  11. 2025Towards White-Box Deep Wireless Sensingcited by 1
  12. 2025Non-Identical Diffusion Models in MIMO-OFDM Channel Generationcited by 1
  13. 2025Generative AI Meets Wireless Sensing: Towards Wireless Foundation Modelcited by 1
  14. 2025REXO: Indoor Multi-View Radar Object Detection via 3D Bounding Box Diffusioncited by 1
  15. 2025mmWEAVER: Environment-Specific mmWave Signal Synthesis from a Photo and Activity Descriptioncited by 1
  16. 2026Beyond Physical Labels: Redefining Domains for Robust WiFi-based Gesture Recognitioncited by 1
  17. 2026WiCompass: Oracle-driven Data Scaling for mmWave Human Pose Estimationcited by 1
  18. 2026RadarTwin: Scene-Specific mmWave Radar Simulation and Learning for Mobile Indoor Perceptioncited by 1
  19. 2025Multi-View Wireless Sensing via Conditional Generative Learning: Framework and Model Designcited by 0
  20. 2025LSDM: LLM-Enhanced Spatio-temporal Diffusion Model for Service-Level Mobile Traffic Predictioncited by 0
  21. 2025Diffusion^2: Turning 3D Environments into Radio Frequency Heatmapscited by 0
  22. 2025Conditional Diffusion Model-Enabled Scenario-Specific Neural Receivers for Superimposed Pilot Schemescited by 0
  23. 2025Radiance-Field Guided Pretraining: Scaling Localization Models with Unlabeled Wireless Signalscited by 0
  24. 2026AviationLMM: A Large Multimodal Foundation Model for Civil Aviationcited by 0
  25. 2026Sim2Radar: Toward Bridging the Radar Sim-to-Real Gap with VLM-Guided Scene Reconstructioncited by 0
  26. 2026Discrete-Space Generative AI Pipeline for Semantic Transmission of Signalscited by 0
  27. 2026RF-LEGO: Modularized Signal Processing-Deep Learning Co-Design for RF Sensing via Deep Unrollingcited by 0
  28. 2026Cross-Modal Generation: From Commodity WiFi to High-Fidelity mmWave and RFID Sensingcited by 0
  29. 2026RF-HOI: Recognize Human-Object Interaction with Radio Frequency Signalscited by 0

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