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most citedLeveraging Variational Autoencoders for Parameterized MMSE Estimation

24 citations · 42 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.IT2025

Precoder Design in Multi-User FDD Systems with VQ-VAE and GNN

Srikar Allaparapu, Michael Baur, Benedikt Böck +2

Robust precoding is efficiently feasible in frequency division duplex (FDD) systems by incorporating the learnt statistics of the propagation environment through a generative model…

eess.SP2025

Sparse Bayesian Generative Modeling for Joint Parameter and Channel Estimation

Benedikt Böck, Franz Weißer, Michael Baur +1

Leveraging the inherent connection between sensing systems and wireless communications can improve their overall performance and is the core objective of joint communications and s…

eess.SP2024

Addressing Pilot Contamination in Channel Estimation with Variational Autoencoders

Amar Kasibovic, Benedikt Fesl, Michael Baur +1

Pilot contamination (PC) is a well-known problem that affects massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. When frequency and pilots are reused between different cells, P…

cs.IT2024

Feedback Design with VQ-VAE for Robust Precoding in Multi-User FDD Systems

Nurettin Turan, Michael Baur, Jianqing Li +1

In this letter, we propose a vector quantized-variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE)-based feedback scheme for robust precoder design in multi-user frequency division duplex (FDD) system…

cs.IT2024

Evaluation Metrics and Methods for Generative Models in the Wireless PHY Layer

Michael Baur, Nurettin Turan, Simon Wallner +1

Generative models are typically evaluated by direct inspection of their generated samples, e.g., by visual inspection in the case of images. Further evaluation metrics like the Fré…

eess.SP2024

A Statistical Characterization of Wireless Channels Conditioned on Side Information

Benedikt Böck, Michael Baur, Nurettin Turan +2

Statistical prior channel knowledge, such as the wide-sense-stationary-uncorrelated-scattering (WSSUS) property, and additional side information both can be used to enhance physica…

eess.SP2024

Diffusion-based Generative Prior for Low-Complexity MIMO Channel Estimation

Benedikt Fesl, Michael Baur, Florian Strasser +2

This work proposes a novel channel estimator based on diffusion models (DMs), one of the currently top-rated generative models. Contrary to related works utilizing generative prior…

cs.LG2024

On the Asymptotic Mean Square Error Optimality of Diffusion Models

Benedikt Fesl, Benedikt Böck, Florian Strasser +3

Diffusion models (DMs) as generative priors have recently shown great potential for denoising tasks but lack theoretical understanding with respect to their mean square error (MSE)…

eess.SP2023★ 8 cited

Variational Autoencoder for Channel Estimation: Real-World Measurement Insights

Michael Baur, Benedikt Böck, Nurettin Turan +1

This work utilizes a variational autoencoder for channel estimation and evaluates it on real-world measurements. The estimator is trained solely on noisy channel observations and p…

eess.SP2023★ 1 cited

Gohberg-Semencul Estimation of Toeplitz Structured Covariance Matrices and Their Inverses

Benedikt Böck, Dominik Semmler, Benedikt Fesl +2

When only few data samples are accessible, utilizing structural prior knowledge is essential for estimating covariance matrices and their inverses. One prominent example is knowing…

eess.SP2023★ 9 cited

Channel Estimation in Underdetermined Systems Utilizing Variational Autoencoders

Michael Baur, Nurettin Turan, Benedikt Fesl +1

In this work, we propose to utilize a variational autoencoder (VAE) for channel estimation (CE) in underdetermined (UD) systems. The basis of the method forms a recently proposed c…

eess.SP2023★ 24 cited

Leveraging Variational Autoencoders for Parameterized MMSE Estimation

Michael Baur, Benedikt Fesl, Wolfgang Utschick

In this manuscript, we propose to use a variational autoencoder-based framework for parameterizing a conditional linear minimum mean squared error estimator. The variational autoen…