Vision-Language-Model-Guided Differentiable Ray Tracing for Fast and Accurate Multi-Material RF Parameter Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18242v1
• Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:54:53 GMT
• Title: Vision-Language-Model-Guided Differentiable Ray Tracing for Fast and Accurate Multi-Material RF Parameter Estimation
• Authors: Zerui Kang, Yishen Lim, Zhouyou Gu, Seung-Woo Ko, Tony Q. S. Quek, Jihong Park,
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a vision-language-model (VLM) guided framework that accelerates and stabilizes multi-material parameter estimation.<n> Experiments in NVIDIA Sionna on indoor scenes show 2-4$times$ faster convergence and 10-100$times$ lower final parameter error.
• Score: 45.40179208702883
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Accurate radio-frequency (RF) material parameters are essential for electromagnetic digital twins in 6G systems, yet gradient-based inverse ray tracing (RT) remains sensitive to initialization and costly under limited measurements. This paper proposes a vision-language-model (VLM) guided framework that accelerates and stabilizes multi-material parameter estimation in a differentiable RT (DRT) engine. A VLM parses scene images to infer material categories and maps them to quantitative priors via an ITU-R material table, yielding informed conductivity initializations. The VLM further selects informative transmitter/receiver placements that promote diverse, material-discriminative paths. Starting from these priors, the DRT performs gradient-based refinement using measured received signal strengths. Experiments in NVIDIA Sionna on indoor scenes show 2-4$\times$ faster convergence and 10-100$\times$ lower final parameter error compared with uniform or random initialization and random placement baselines, achieving sub-0.1\% mean relative error with only a few receivers. Complexity analyses indicate per-iteration time scales near-linearly with the number of materials and measurement setups, while VLM-guided placement reduces the measurements required for accurate recovery. Ablations over RT depth and ray counts confirm further accuracy gains without significant per-iteration overhead. Results demonstrate that semantic priors from VLMs effectively guide physics-based optimization for fast and reliable RF material estimation.

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