Wireless Dataset Similarity: Measuring Distances in Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01023v1
• Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 01:15:27 GMT
• Title: Wireless Dataset Similarity: Measuring Distances in Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning
• Authors: João Morais, Sadjad Alikhani, Akshay Malhotra, Shahab Hamidi-Rad, Ahmed Alkhateeb,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces a task- and model-aware framework for measuring similarity between wireless datasets.<n>It enables applications such as dataset selection/augmentation, simulation-to-real (sim2real) comparison, and informing decisions on model training/adaptation to new deployments.
• Score: 15.036550722400085
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper introduces a task- and model-aware framework for measuring similarity between wireless datasets, enabling applications such as dataset selection/augmentation, simulation-to-real (sim2real) comparison, task-specific synthetic data generation, and informing decisions on model training/adaptation to new deployments. We evaluate candidate dataset distance metrics by how well they predict cross-dataset transferability: if two datasets have a small distance, a model trained on one should perform well on the other. We apply the framework on an unsupervised task, channel state information (CSI) compression, using autoencoders. Using metrics based on UMAP embeddings, combined with Wasserstein and Euclidean distances, we achieve Pearson correlations exceeding 0.85 between dataset distances and train-on-one/test-on-another task performance. We also apply the framework to a supervised beam prediction in the downlink using convolutional neural networks. For this task, we derive a label-aware distance by integrating supervised UMAP and penalties for dataset imbalance. Across both tasks, the resulting distances outperform traditional baselines and consistently exhibit stronger correlations with model transferability, supporting task-relevant comparisons between wireless datasets.

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