用自监督学习提升6G网络智能,减少标签依赖并适应动态环境。
JEPA for AI-Native 6G: Predictive Representations and Open Challenges

- 通过预测潜在空间中的未来表示,实现无监督学习
- 在波束管理任务中提升标签效率与部署鲁棒性
- 适合研究6G智能、自监督学习的工程师和学者
第六代(6G)网络正向AI原生架构演进,学习模块嵌入无线接入网(RAN)、边缘和核心。这一转变要求在标签有限、数据异构、观测不全、信道非平稳及延迟敏感的条件下进行学习。联合嵌入预测架构(JEPA)是一种有前景的自监督范式,它通过预测潜在空间中缺失或未来的表示,而非重建原始信号或使用对比负样本。本文提供面向无线场景的JEPA教程:定义训练机制,阐述信道状态信息(CSI)、波束测量、关键性能指标(KPI)、拓扑图和感知观测的分词与掩码方法,并将学习到的编码器定位为RAN、O-RAN、边缘和核心功能的预测表征层,配合任务特定头或控制器输出最终决策。通过波束管理案例研究发现,引入面向无线场景的辅助未来波束能量目标,在自监督预训练中可显著提升标签效率与跨部署条件下的鲁棒性。最后,指出多时间尺度预测、动作条件建模、分布式训练、可信性、高效部署、基准测试与标准化等开放挑战。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Sixth-generation (6G) networks are moving toward AI-native operation, where learning modules are embedded across the radio access network (RAN), edge, and core. This transition requires learning from limited labels, heterogeneous wireless and network data, partial observations, non-stationary propagation, and latency-constrained control loops. Joint-embedding predictive architecture (JEPA) is a promising self-supervised paradigm for this setting because it predicts missing or future representations in latent space instead of reconstructing raw measurements or using contrastive negative samples. This article presents a wireless-oriented tutorial on JEPA for 6G intelligence. We define the JEPA training mechanism, describe how CSI, beam measurements, KPIs, topology graphs, and sensing observations can be tokenized and masked, and position the learned encoder as a predictive representation layer for RAN, O-RAN, edge, and core functions, with task-specific heads or controllers producing final decisions. Then we present an illustrative, beam-management case study suggesting that a wireless-aware target, specifically an auxiliary future beam-energy target during self-supervised pretraining, can improve label efficiency and robustness across shifted deployment conditions relative to a supervised source domain. Finally, we outline open challenges in multi-timescale prediction, action-conditioned modeling, distributed training, trustworthiness, efficient deployment, benchmarking, and standardization.
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