用可编程超表面实现无线端到端神经网络推理,显著降低信号噪声要求。
Over-the-Air Edge Inference via End-to-End Metasurfaces-Integrated Artificial Neural Networks
- 将超表面融入神经网络,利用无线信道实现计算
- 测试时信噪比仅需比训练低50分贝仍保持近优性能
- 适合无信道信息的边缘推理场景,部署更简单
在边缘推理(EI)范式中,深度神经网络(DNN)被分割在收发设备间,通过无线传输目标特征完成计算任务,传统上无线信道被视为噪声源。本文受可重构智能表面(RIS)和堆叠智能超表面(SIM)技术启发,利用其对无线信号的可控反射或衍射能力,将智能无线环境优化为一种空中计算机制,类比于DNN层操作。提出元表面集成神经网络(MINN)框架,涵盖建模、基于衰落信道的变体反向传播训练及部署方法。整体端到端架构兼容RIS/SIM设备,支持传输前可调配置或训练后固定配置,同时考虑信道感知与非感知收发器。数值评估表明,在传统通信或无超表面系统无法工作的链路预算下,元表面能有效实现图像分类。结果显示,该MINN框架可显著简化边缘推理需求,在测试时无需收发器信道知识,仍能实现近最优性能,且测试信噪比比训练时低50分贝。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In the Edge Inference (EI) paradigm, where a Deep Neural Network (DNN) is split across the transceivers to wirelessly communicate goal-defined features in solving a computational task, the wireless medium has been commonly treated as a source of noise. In this paper, motivated by the emerging technologies of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) and Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIM) that offer programmable propagation of wireless signals, either through controllable reflections or diffractions, we optimize the RIS/SIM-enabled smart wireless environment as a means of over-the-air computing, resembling the operations of DNN layers. We propose a framework of Metasurfaces-Integrated Neural Networks (MINNs) for EI, presenting its modeling, training through a backpropagation variation for fading channels, and deployment aspects. The overall end-to-end DNN architecture is general enough to admit RIS and SIM devices, through controllable reconfiguration before each transmission or fixed configurations after training, while both channel-aware and channel-agnostic transceivers are considered. Our numerical evaluation showcases metasurfaces to be instrumental in performing image classification under link budgets that impede conventional communications or metasurface-free systems. It is demonstrated that our MINN framework can significantly simplify EI requirements, achieving near-optimal performance with $50~$dB lower testing signal-to-noise ratio compared to training, even without transceiver channel knowledge.
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