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arxiv: 2605.12578 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-12 · 📡 eess.SP · cs.IT· cs.LG· math.IT

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Recurrent Transformer-Based Near- and Far-Field THz Wideband Channel Estimation for UM-MIMO

Dmitry Artemasov (1) , Alexander Shmatok (1) , Kirill Andreev (1) , Alexey Frolov (1) , Manjesh K. Hanawal (2) , Nikola Zlatanov (3) ((1) Center for Next Generation Wireless , IoT , Skolkovo Institute of Science , Technology , Moscow , Russia , (2) Department of IEOR , Indian Institute of Technology Bombay , India , (3) Faculty of Computer , Engineering Sciences , Innopolis University , Innopolis , Russia)

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A single recurrent transformer block trained once delivers 5 dB and 7.5 dB NMSE gains over prior methods for narrowband and wideband hybrid near-far field THz UM-MIMO channel estimation.

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Future wireless systems at terahertz frequencies use enormous antenna arrays to send data very fast. With such large arrays, some users are close enough that the radio waves behave differently than for distant users, creating a mix of near-field and far-field conditions. Estimating the exact wireless channel is difficult because the system has only a few digital processors for processing signals. The authors apply a neural network called a transformer that normally processes sequences in parallel blocks. They add memory so the same block can be reused repeatedly on the incoming signal, carrying forward information from previous steps. The network is trained on many simulated scenarios with different user distances, numbers of signal paths, and wide frequency bands so it works across varied conditions. Tests on simulated data show lower estimation error than earlier techniques by 5 decibels in narrowband cases and 7.5 decibels in wideband cases.

Core claim

We demonstrate that a single transformer block equipped with state memory can be trained once and then iteratively applied for hybrid-field channel estimation, achieving performance gains of approximately 5 dB and 7.5 dB in NMSE over state-of-the-art solutions in narrowband and wideband scenarios.

Load-bearing premise

The simulated wireless channels used for training and evaluation accurately capture the physical near- and far-field propagation effects, scatterer distributions, and wideband behavior in real THz UM-MIMO deployments.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.12578 by (2) Department of IEOR, (3) Faculty of Computer, Alexander Shmatok (1), Alexey Frolov (1), Dmitry Artemasov (1), Engineering Sciences, India, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Innopolis, Innopolis University, IoT, Kirill Andreev (1), Manjesh K. Hanawal (2), Moscow, Nikola Zlatanov (3) ((1) Center for Next Generation Wireless, Russia, Russia), Skolkovo Institute of Science, Technology.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Partially connected hybrid beamforming structure: each AE in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: AoSA schematic representation. ing AEs within a given SA is denoted by da, also see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Illustration of the block recurrent transformer cell [30]. The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: For clarity of the notations, the recurrent structure of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Proposed BRT-based hybrid-field channel estimation model. Unrolled [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: NMSE performance of the hybrid-field channel estimation methods. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Probability mass function of the number of near-field paths in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: NMSE performance across channels with various scatterer distribu [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: NMSE performance across channels with varying number of propa [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Difference in NMSE performance across channels with varying [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: NMSE performance of the wideband hybrid-field channel estimation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Effect of the number of recurrent iterations [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_15.png] view at source ↗
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The integration of terahertz communications and ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output (UM-MIMO) systems in 6G networks is motivated by their ability to enable unprecedented data rates, mitigate spectrum congestion, and enhance overall network performance. However, the enlarged antenna apertures and higher carrier frequencies in these systems increase the Rayleigh distance, causing users to span both the near-field and conventional far-field regions. Accurate spatial precoding thus requires exact channel estimation at the base station - a task made more challenging by the hybrid coexistence of near- and far-field effects and the limited number of digital chains available in hybrid beamforming architectures. In this paper, we propose a block recurrent transformer model to address this challenge. We demonstrate that a single transformer block equipped with state memory can be trained once and then iteratively applied for hybrid-field channel estimation. Furthermore, we train the model such that it generalizes to wireless channels with varying scatterer distances, different numbers of propagation paths, and wideband operation. Simulation results show that the proposed method achieves performance gains of approximately 5 dB and 7.5 dB in normalized mean squared error (NMSE) over state-of-the-art solutions in narrowband and wideband scenarios, respectively.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a block-recurrent transformer architecture for hybrid near- and far-field THz channel estimation in UM-MIMO systems under hybrid beamforming. A single transformer block equipped with state memory is trained once and then applied iteratively; the model is claimed to generalize across varying scatterer distances, path counts, and wideband operation, delivering approximately 5 dB NMSE improvement in narrowband and 7.5 dB in wideband scenarios relative to existing methods.

Significance. If the simulation-based gains are shown to be robust, the work would offer a practical, low-complexity deep-learning solution for a key 6G bottleneck: accurate channel estimation when users lie inside the enlarged Rayleigh distance at THz frequencies. The recurrent single-block design and claimed generalization properties could reduce training overhead compared with per-scenario retraining.

major comments (2)
  1. [Simulation Results] The central performance claims rest on simulated channels whose fidelity to joint near-/far-field spherical-wave propagation, frequency-dependent path loss, and scatterer geometry at THz frequencies is not validated. No sensitivity analysis to Rayleigh-distance mismatch, bandwidth variation, or comparison against measured THz UM-MIMO traces is reported, leaving open the possibility that the 5 dB / 7.5 dB NMSE gains are artifacts of the generative model rather than evidence of the architecture.
  2. [Abstract and Section on Proposed Method] The manuscript supplies no information on the number of Monte Carlo trials, statistical significance testing, training loss, dataset generation procedure, or ablation studies that isolate the contribution of the recurrent state memory. Without these details it is impossible to determine whether the reported gains are reproducible or affected by post-hoc tuning.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Method] Notation for the state-memory update and the hybrid-field channel model could be clarified with an explicit equation reference in the method section.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive review. The comments highlight important aspects of reproducibility and validation that we will address in the revision. Below we respond point-by-point to the major comments.

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  1. Referee: [Simulation Results] The central performance claims rest on simulated channels whose fidelity to joint near-/far-field spherical-wave propagation, frequency-dependent path loss, and scatterer geometry at THz frequencies is not validated. No sensitivity analysis to Rayleigh-distance mismatch, bandwidth variation, or comparison against measured THz UM-MIMO traces is reported, leaving open the possibility that the 5 dB / 7.5 dB NMSE gains are artifacts of the generative model rather than evidence of the architecture.

    Authors: We agree that stronger validation of the simulation model would increase confidence in the reported gains. The channel realizations follow the standard spherical-wave near-field model for users within the Rayleigh distance combined with far-field plane-wave components, together with frequency-dependent molecular absorption and path loss drawn from established THz propagation literature. In the revised manuscript we will add an explicit subsection describing the generative procedure and include sensitivity analyses that vary the Rayleigh-distance threshold and bandwidth. Direct comparison to measured THz UM-MIMO traces is not feasible within the present simulation study; we will state this limitation clearly and identify it as an important direction for future experimental validation. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Abstract and Section on Proposed Method] The manuscript supplies no information on the number of Monte Carlo trials, statistical significance testing, training loss, dataset generation procedure, or ablation studies that isolate the contribution of the recurrent state memory. Without these details it is impossible to determine whether the reported gains are reproducible or affected by post-hoc tuning.

    Authors: We acknowledge that these implementation and statistical details were omitted. The revised version will expand the simulation and training sections to report: (i) 1000 independent Monte Carlo channel realizations per SNR point, (ii) paired t-tests confirming statistical significance of the NMSE improvements, (iii) training and validation loss curves, (iv) the full dataset generation procedure (ranges for scatterer distances, path counts, carrier frequencies, and bandwidth), and (v) ablation experiments that remove the recurrent state memory while keeping all other components fixed. These additions will allow readers to assess reproducibility and the specific benefit of the recurrent design. revision: yes

standing simulated objections not resolved
  • Direct experimental comparison against measured THz UM-MIMO channel traces, as the current work is entirely simulation-based.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: model trained and evaluated on independent simulated data

full rationale

The paper trains a recurrent transformer block on simulated THz UM-MIMO channel realizations and evaluates it on held-out test scenarios with varying scatterer distances and path counts. No equations reduce the output to a fitted parameter by construction, no self-citations serve as load-bearing uniqueness theorems, and the central claim (iterative application of a single trained block) follows directly from standard supervised learning without self-referential definitions or renaming of known results. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the validity of the simulation environment and the generalization properties of the trained neural network; the only free parameters are the learned weights of the transformer, which are fitted to simulated data.

free parameters (1)
  • transformer model weights
    Neural network parameters learned during training on simulated channel realizations; their specific values are not reported.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Simulated channel models with varying scatterer distances and path counts accurately represent real THz near- and far-field propagation
    All training, generalization claims, and performance comparisons rely on synthetic data generated under this assumption.

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