RadioDiff-FS: Physics-Informed Manifold Alignment in Few-Shot Diffusion Models for High-Fidelity Radio Map Construction
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Abstract (arXiv)
Radio maps (RMs) provide spatially continuous propagation characterizations essential for 6G network planning, but high-fidelity RM construction remains challenging. Rigorous electromagnetic solvers incur prohibitive computational latency, while data-driven models demand massive labeled datasets and generalize poorly from simplified simulations to complex multipath environments. This paper proposes RadioDiff-FS, a few-shot diffusion framework that adapts a pretrained main-path generator to multipath-rich target domains with only a small number of high-fidelity samples. The adaptation is grounded in a theoretical decomposition of the multipath RM into a dominant main-path component and a directionally sparse residual. This decomposition shows that the cross-domain shift corresponds to a bounded and geometrically structured feature translation rather than an arbitrary distribution change. A direction-consistency loss (DCL) is then introduced to constrain diffusion score updates along physically plausible propagation directions, thereby suppressing phase-inconsistent artifacts that arise in the low-data regime. Experiments show that RadioDiff-FS reduces NMSE by 59.5% on static RMs and by 74.0% on dynamic RMs relative to the vanilla diffusion baseline, achieving an SSIM of 0.9752 and a PSNR of 36.37 dB under severely limited supervision. Even in a one-shot setting with a single target-domain sample per scene, RadioDiff-FS outperforms all fully supervised baselines, confirming that the directional constraint provides an effective inductive bias under extreme data scarcity. Code is available at https://github.com/UNIC-Lab/RadioDiff-FS.
Key facts. Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Diffusion for compression and wireless, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 19 of its 41 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 19 Mar 2026.
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