利用通信沉默中的隐含信息,提升远程状态估计精度
The Silence that Speaks: Neural Estimation via Communication Gaps
- 设计可学习的通信调度与估计算法协同框架
- 在多个基准上实现比传统方法更低的估计误差
- 适合需要高效通信的自主系统与网络化控制场景
精确的远程状态估计是许多自治与网络化动态系统的基础,其中多个决策代理通过共享的带宽受限信道交互。通信约束带来了何时通信的决策难题,导致估计精度与通信资源使用之间的根本权衡。传统估计算法(如卡尔曼滤波)将无通信视为‘缺失’信息,但沉默本身可能携带系统状态的隐含信息。本文提出CALM(Communication-Aware Learning and Monitoring)——一种基于学习的联合通信调度与估计算法框架,不仅学习何时通信,还能从通信沉默期中推断有效信息。我们在多个基准任务上进行对比实验,结果表明CALM能够解码估计算法与调度器之间的隐含协作,从‘沉默’中提取信息,显著提升估计精度。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate remote state estimation is a fundamental component of many autonomous and networked dynamical systems, where multiple decision-making agents interact and communicate over shared, bandwidth-constrained channels. These communication constraints introduce an additional layer of complexity, namely, the decision of when to communicate. This results in a fundamental trade-off between estimation accuracy and communication resource usage. Traditional extensions of classical estimation algorithms (e.g., the Kalman filter) treat the absence of communication as 'missing' information. However, silence itself can carry implicit information about the system's state, which, if properly interpreted, can enhance the estimation quality even in the absence of explicit communication. Leveraging this implicit structure, however, poses significant analytical challenges, even in relatively simple systems. In this paper, we propose CALM (Communication-Aware Learning and Monitoring), a novel learning-based framework that jointly addresses the dual challenges of communication scheduling and estimator design. Our approach entails learning not only when to communicate but also how to infer useful information from periods of communication silence. We perform comparative case studies on multiple benchmarks to demonstrate that CALM is able to decode the implicit coordination between the estimator and the scheduler to extract information from the instances of 'silence' and enhance the estimation accuracy.
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