Cross-Attention Transformer for Joint Multi-Receiver Uplink Neural Decoding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04728v1
• Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:34:48 GMT
• Title: Cross-Attention Transformer for Joint Multi-Receiver Uplink Neural Decoding
• Authors: Xavier Tardy, Grégoire Lefebvre, Apostolos Kountouris, Haïfa Fares, Amor Nafkha,
• Abstract summary: We propose a cross-attention Transformer for joint decoding of OFDM signals.<n>A shared per-receiver encoder learns time-frequency structure within each received grid.<n>A token-wise cross-attention module fuses the receivers to produce soft log-likelihood ratios for a standard channel decoder.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We propose a cross-attention Transformer for joint decoding of uplink OFDM signals received by multiple coordinated access points. A shared per-receiver encoder learns time-frequency structure within each received grid, and a token-wise cross-attention module fuses the receivers to produce soft log-likelihood ratios for a standard channel decoder, without requiring explicit per-receiver channel estimates. Trained with a bit-metric objective, the model adapts its fusion to per-receiver reliability, tolerates missing or degraded links, and remains robust when pilots are sparse. Across realistic Wi-Fi channels, it consistently outperforms classical pipelines and strong convolutional baselines, frequently matching (and in some cases surpassing) a powerful baseline that assumes perfect channel knowledge per access point. Despite its expressiveness, the architecture is compact, has low computational cost (low GFLOPs), and achieves low latency on GPUs, making it a practical building block for next-generation Wi-Fi receivers.

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