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RadioFlow: Efficient Radio Map Construction Framework with Flow Matching

arXiv 2510.09314 ↗First posted 10 Oct 2025cs.CVcited by 1

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Accurate and real-time radio map (RM) generation is crucial for next-generation wireless systems, yet diffusion-based approaches often suffer from large model sizes, slow iterative denoising, and high inference latency, which hinder practical deployment. To overcome these limitations, we propose RadioFlow, a novel flow-matching-based generative framework that achieves high-fidelity RM generation through single-step efficient sampling. Unlike conventional diffusion models, RadioFlow learns continuous transport trajectories between noise and data, enabling both training and inference to be significantly accelerated while preserving reconstruction accuracy. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that RadioFlow achieves state-of-the-art performance with up to 8× fewer parameters and over 4× faster inference compared to the leading diffusion-based baseline (RadioDiff). This advancement provides a promising pathway toward scalable, energy-efficient, and real-time electromagnetic digital twins for future 6G networks. We release the code at hrefhttps://github.com/Hxxxz0/RadioFlowGitHub.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Diffusion for compression and wireless, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 16 of its 37 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 10 Oct 2025.

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  1. 2024RadioDiff: An Effective Generative Diffusion Model for Sampling-Free Dynamic Radio Map Construction16 Aug

Other references · 15

  1. 2022Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidancecited by 5,847
  2. 2022Flow Matching for Generative Modelingcited by 5,702
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  4. 2022Diffusion Models in Vision: A Surveycited by 1,015
  5. 2023Improving and generalizing flow-based generative models with minibatch optimal transportcited by 879
  6. 2022A Survey on Generative Diffusion Modelcited by 240
  7. 2019RadioUNet: Fast Radio Map Estimation with Convolutional Neural Networkscited by 127
  8. 2022RME-GAN: A Learning Framework for Radio Map Estimation based on Conditional Generative Adversarial Networkcited by 50
  9. 2022Radio Map Estimation: A Data-Driven Approach to Spectrum Cartographycited by 31
  10. 2022Dataset of Pathloss and ToA Radio Maps With Localization Applicationcited by 27
  11. 2021Stability of Entropic Optimal Transport and Schr"odinger Bridgescited by 26
  12. 2023Building the Bridge of Schr"odinger: A Continuous Entropic Optimal Transport Benchmarkcited by 19
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  1. 2021RadioNet: Transformer based Radio Map Prediction Model For Dense Urban Environmentscited by 15
  2. 2022LocUNet: Fast Urban Positioning Using Radio Maps and Deep Learningcited by 8
  3. 2016Radio Transformer Networks: Attention Models for Learning to Synchronize in Wireless Systemscited by 3

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  1. 2026RadioDiff-Flux: Efficient Radio Map Construction via Generative Denoise Diffusion Model Trajectory Midpoint Reuse
  2. 2026RadioDiff-FS: Physics-Informed Manifold Alignment in Few-Shot Diffusion Models for High-Fidelity Radio Map Construction
  3. 2026RMPrior: Bridging Propagation Priors and Diffusion Refinement for Efficient Radio Map Construction
  4. 2026RadioTrace: Transmitter-Aware Diffusion for Radio Map Estimation without Deployment-Time Fine-Tuning
  5. 2026RadioDiff-v2: Generative Angular Radio Maps for Multi-Beam Selection and Localization
  6. 2026Channel Knowledge Map Construction via Guided Flow Matching
  7. 2025RadioDiff-3D: A 3D×3D Radio Map Dataset and Generative Diffusion Based Benchmark for 6G Environment-Aware Communication
  8. 2026Diffusion Models for Radio Map Estimation: Theoretical Performance Analysis and Sampling Rate Guideline