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arxiv: 2606.20574 · v1 · pith:R64VAE44 · submitted 2026-05-01 · cs.NI · cs.AI

LLM-assisted gNB Parameter Configuration for Radio Access Network

Yao-Cong Dong , Maria Amparo Canaveras Galdon , Ari Uskudar , Kuntal Chowdhury , Edwin K. P. Chong , Ray-Guang Cheng This is my paper

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classification cs.NI cs.AI
keywords LLMgNBRANparameter configurationmisconfiguration correctionsynthetic datafine-tuningretrieval-augmented generation
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Fine-tuning an LLM on synthetic data corrects gNB misconfigurations at 92.7 percent accuracy on testbed.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper develops an LLM-assisted framework to automatically correct gNB parameter misconfigurations in radio access networks. It starts with a workable configuration and gNB technical references, then uses a commercial LLM to generate modified configurations and structured reasoning traces from error logs, creating synthetic training data that maps network states to corrective actions. The resulting fine-tuned LLM generates valid configurations from logs at inference time. Validation on an OpenAirInterface gNB testbed with 480 unseen misconfiguration scenarios shows accuracy rising from 13.8 percent in zero-shot to 85.4 percent after fine-tuning and 92.7 percent with retrieval-augmented generation added. A sympathetic reader cares because manual analysis of complex logs does not scale with network size, so automation could reduce downtime and operator effort in RANs.

Core claim

The paper establishes that a synthetic data generation pipeline following the configuration-log-correction workflow produces training examples sufficient to fine-tune an LLM that maps gNB error logs to deployable parameter configurations, reaching 85.4 percent correction accuracy on 480 unseen scenarios in an OAI testbed, with RAG raising the figure to 92.7 percent.

What carries the argument

The synthetic data generation pipeline that uses a commercial LLM to derive structured reasoning traces from gNB error logs and map network states to corrective actions.

If this is right

  • The framework enables automated recovery from gNB misconfigurations without manual intervention.
  • It supports scalable and autonomous RAN operation.
  • Fine-tuning substantially outperforms zero-shot prompting on this task.
  • Adding retrieval-augmented generation provides further accuracy gains beyond fine-tuning alone.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same synthetic-data approach could be applied to misconfiguration diagnosis for other RAN components such as the core network.
  • Collecting a small number of real misconfiguration logs over time could be used to iteratively refine the training distribution.
  • Integration with existing network monitoring systems would allow the model to trigger corrections in near real time.

Load-bearing premise

The synthetic data generated by the commercial LLM faithfully represents the distribution of real misconfigurations and their corrective actions that would be encountered in operational RANs.

What would settle it

Running the fine-tuned model on misconfigurations collected directly from a live commercial RAN deployment and measuring whether correction accuracy remains above 80 percent would test whether the synthetic distribution matches reality.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.20574 by Ari Uskudar, Edwin K. P. Chong, Kuntal Chowdhury, Maria Amparo Canaveras Galdon, Ray-Guang Cheng, Yao-Cong Dong.

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Figure 2. Figure 2: Functional block diagram of the proposed LLM-assisted framework [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 1. Figure 1: System model of the O-RAN management and control architecture. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: SFT training loss for QwQ-32B under both data conditions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison of exact-match accuracy and accuracy (score [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

gNB parameter misconfigurations are a common cause of system failures in radio access networks (RANs), and their diagnosis and correction rely on manual analysis of complex network logs that does not scale well. This paper proposes a large language model (LLM)-assisted framework for automatic gNB parameter configuration. The framework adopts a synthetic data generation pipeline following a configuration, log, correction workflow. Starting from a workable configuration and the gNB technical references, the pipeline uses a commercial LLM to generate modified configurations and derive structured reasoning traces from gNB error logs. The synthetic training data maps network states to corrective actions and is used to fine-tune an LLM for configuration correction. During inference, the fine-tuned LLM generates valid and deployable gNB parameter configurations from gNB error logs. The framework is validated on an OpenAirInterface (OAI) gNB testbed with 480 unseen misconfiguration scenarios, where fine-tuning improves correction accuracy from 13.8% (zero-shot baseline) to 85.4%, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) further improves accuracy to 92.7%. The results demonstrate that the framework may enable automated recovery from misconfigurations without manual intervention and supports scalable and autonomous RAN operation.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes an LLM-assisted framework for automatic gNB parameter configuration correction in radio access networks. It introduces a synthetic data generation pipeline that uses a commercial LLM to produce training examples via a configuration-log-correction workflow derived from technical references, fine-tunes an LLM on this data to map error logs to corrective actions, and evaluates the approach on an OpenAirInterface gNB testbed using 480 unseen misconfiguration scenarios. The central empirical claims are accuracy gains from 13.8% (zero-shot) to 85.4% (fine-tuned) and 92.7% (with RAG).

Significance. If the results hold under scrutiny of the synthetic data assumption, the work could contribute to scalable autonomous RAN operations by reducing manual diagnosis of misconfigurations. The physical testbed validation provides a concrete empirical anchor that is stronger than purely simulated evaluations.

major comments (3)
  1. [synthetic data generation pipeline] Synthetic data generation pipeline: The headline accuracy claims on the 480 testbed scenarios rest on the unverified premise that LLM-generated synthetic misconfigurations and reasoning traces have the same joint distribution over error logs, parameter interactions, and corrective actions as real OAI gNB deployments. No statistical comparison (KL divergence on log feature histograms, parameter range coverage, or expert review of traces) is reported; if the synthetic set under-represents rare interactions, the reported generalization is explained by distribution match rather than robust inference.
  2. [evaluation on OAI testbed] Evaluation section: The 85.4% and 92.7% accuracy figures on the 480 scenarios are presented without error bars, confidence intervals, or statistical significance tests relative to the 13.8% baseline. This omission makes it impossible to determine whether the observed gains are reliable or sensitive to scenario selection.
  3. [evaluation on OAI testbed] Scenario selection: The manuscript does not describe the procedure used to generate or select the 480 unseen misconfiguration scenarios for the testbed experiments (e.g., whether they were drawn from a documented distribution of real faults or constructed to match synthetic patterns). This detail is load-bearing for the claim that the fine-tuned model generalizes beyond the training distribution.
minor comments (2)
  1. The abstract and results text should explicitly state the base LLM used for both synthetic data generation and fine-tuning, as well as any hyperparameter choices for the fine-tuning stage.
  2. Figure captions for any performance plots should include the exact number of scenarios per condition and whether the reported accuracies are macro- or micro-averaged.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and indicate planned revisions to improve the manuscript.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: Synthetic data generation pipeline: The headline accuracy claims on the 480 testbed scenarios rest on the unverified premise that LLM-generated synthetic misconfigurations and reasoning traces have the same joint distribution over error logs, parameter interactions, and corrective actions as real OAI gNB deployments. No statistical comparison (KL divergence on log feature histograms, parameter range coverage, or expert review of traces) is reported; if the synthetic set under-represents rare interactions, the reported generalization is explained by distribution match rather than robust inference.

    Authors: We agree that a direct statistical comparison to real distributions would strengthen the claims. The synthetic pipeline is constructed from gNB technical references via the configuration-log-correction workflow to capture realistic parameter interactions. Comprehensive real-world misconfiguration logs are not publicly available due to operator privacy constraints, precluding KL divergence or similar metrics against operational data. In revision we will add quantitative coverage analysis of parameter ranges in the synthetic set, include expert review of a sampled subset of reasoning traces, and expand the limitations section to discuss the synthetic data assumption explicitly. revision: partial

  2. Referee: Evaluation section: The 85.4% and 92.7% accuracy figures on the 480 scenarios are presented without error bars, confidence intervals, or statistical significance tests relative to the 13.8% baseline. This omission makes it impossible to determine whether the observed gains are reliable or sensitive to scenario selection.

    Authors: We accept this criticism. The revised manuscript will report 95% bootstrap confidence intervals for all accuracy figures and include McNemar's test (or equivalent) to establish statistical significance of the gains over the zero-shot baseline. revision: yes

  3. Referee: Scenario selection: The manuscript does not describe the procedure used to generate or select the 480 unseen misconfiguration scenarios for the testbed experiments (e.g., whether they were drawn from a documented distribution of real faults or constructed to match synthetic patterns). This detail is load-bearing for the claim that the fine-tuned model generalizes beyond the training distribution.

    Authors: The 480 scenarios were generated by applying a documented set of misconfiguration patterns (distinct from those used in training) drawn from the same technical references. We will add a dedicated subsection detailing the pattern list, the systematic variation method, and the verification that each scenario is unseen during fine-tuning. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; headline results are direct empirical measurements on external hardware testbed.

full rationale

The paper reports correction accuracy (85.4% after fine-tuning, 92.7% with RAG) measured on 480 unseen misconfiguration scenarios executed on a physical OpenAirInterface gNB testbed. These metrics are obtained by feeding real error logs to the model and comparing generated configurations against ground-truth corrections; they do not reduce to any fitted parameter, self-referential equation, or quantity defined in terms of the synthetic training pipeline. No self-citation load-bearing steps, uniqueness theorems, ansatz smuggling, or renaming of known results appear in the derivation chain. The synthetic data is used solely for training and the testbed evaluation remains an independent external benchmark.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the domain assumption that commercial LLMs can generate high-quality synthetic configuration-log-correction triples that generalize to real testbed behavior; no free parameters or invented entities are explicitly introduced beyond the choice of LLM and fine-tuning procedure.

free parameters (1)
  • Commercial LLM for synthetic data generation
    The specific model used to create the training examples is a free choice whose outputs determine the quality of the fine-tuning data.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Commercial LLMs can produce structured reasoning traces and valid corrective actions from gNB error logs and technical references
    Invoked directly in the synthetic data generation pipeline.

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