arXiv:2602.07881cs.ITcs.AI2026-02

提出可自适应调整长度的深度反馈编码,显著提升高码率性能。

Deep Variable-Length Feedback Codes

  • 基于反馈动态调整传输长度,采用分组与Transformer架构实现精细速率适配。
  • 在相同误码率下减少20%-55%信道使用次数,高码率下误码地板降低数量级。
  • 模型自发学习到类似经典编码的两阶段策略,具可解释性与信息论对齐性。

深度学习推动了基于反馈的信道编码进展,但现有方案仍受制于固定码长、高码率下性能下降及无法充分发挥反馈潜力。本文提出深度可变长度反馈编码(DeepVLF),通过学习反馈动态调整传输长度。设计两种互补架构:由接收端驱动终止的DeepVLF-R,以及由发送端控制终止的DeepVLF-T。两者均采用比特分组与基于Transformer的编码器-解码器网络,实现对反馈的细粒度速率适应。在AWGN与5G-NR衰落信道上的评估表明,DeepVLF显著优于现有先进学习型反馈编码:在相同块误码率下,信道使用次数减少20%-55%,并在高码率场景中将误码地板降低数量级。编码动态分析显示,模型自主学习到类经典Schalkwijk-Kailath编码的两阶段策略——初始信息传递阶段与后续噪声消除优化阶段。该涌现行为凸显了所学编码的可解释性与信息论一致性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Deep learning has enabled significant advances in feedback-based channel coding, yet existing learned schemes remain fundamentally limited: they employ fixed block lengths, suffer degraded performance at high rates, and cannot fully exploit the adaptive potential of feedback. This paper introduces Deep Variable-Length Feedback (DeepVLF) coding, a flexible coding framework that dynamically adjusts transmission length via learned feedback. We propose two complementary architectures: DeepVLF-R, where termination is receiver-driven, and DeepVLF-T, where the transmitter controls termination. Both architectures leverage bit-group partitioning and transformer-based encoder-decoder networks to enable fine-grained rate adaptation in response to feedback. Evaluations over AWGN and 5G-NR fading channels demonstrate that DeepVLF substantially outperforms state-of-the-art learned feedback codes. It achieves the same block error rate with 20%-55% fewer channel uses and lowers error floors by orders of magnitude, particularly in high-rate regimes. Encoding dynamics analysis further reveals that the models autonomously learn a two-phase strategy analogous to classical Schalkwijk-Kailath coding: an initial information-carrying phase followed by a noise-cancellation refinement phase. This emergent behavior underscores the interpretability and information-theoretic alignment of the learned codes.

深度学习信道编码反馈机制可变长度

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