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arxiv: 2605.00849 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-20 · 📡 eess.SP · cs.LG· cs.SY· eess.SY

Deep Learning for Multi-Antenna Modulation Recognition of Radio Signals

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keywords multi-antenna modulation recognitiondeep learningIQ signalsconvolutional neural networkdata augmentationfew-shot learningautomatic modulation classificationspatial diversity
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The pith

Concatenating raw IQ signals from multiple antennas and feeding them into a convolutional neural network improves modulation recognition accuracy and cuts computational cost compared to voting or averaging per antenna.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper proposes an MAMR-IQ method that concatenates the raw in-phase and quadrature signals received across multiple antennas before passing the combined input to a convolutional neural network. Simulations demonstrate that this joint processing yields higher recognition accuracy and lower complexity than two prior deep-learning approaches that classify each antenna separately and then combine results via direct voting or weighted averaging. The authors further introduce a data-augmentation step that exchanges IQ sequences between any pair of antennas to create additional training samples, raising accuracy when only limited labeled data are available. A reader would care because multi-antenna receivers are already common in communications, yet automatic modulation recognition still relies on methods that under-use the available spatial diversity.

Core claim

The MAMR-IQ method concatenates the raw received in-phase and quadrature signals of multiple antennas and feeds them into a convolutional neural network; this approach outperforms two existing deep learning-based MAMR methods based on direct voting and weight average in both recognition accuracy and computational complexity. A data-augmentation technique that exchanges IQ sequences received by any two antennas further improves accuracy in few-shot scenarios.

What carries the argument

The MAMR-IQ concatenation of raw multi-antenna IQ vectors before CNN input, which directly exploits spatial diversity without separate per-antenna classification and fusion steps.

If this is right

  • Recognition accuracy rises because the CNN can learn joint spatial features across antennas rather than fusing independent decisions.
  • Computational complexity drops because a single network processes the combined input instead of running multiple classifiers followed by voting or averaging.
  • Few-shot performance improves when antenna-pair IQ exchanges generate additional training samples without requiring new channel measurements.
  • The method scales to larger antenna arrays by simply extending the input tensor width while keeping the same network architecture.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The lower complexity could allow modulation recognition to run on edge devices attached to multi-antenna arrays without dedicated high-power processors.
  • The same concatenation principle might transfer to related tasks such as multi-antenna signal detection or direction-of-arrival estimation.
  • If the augmentation works by increasing effective sample diversity, similar pairwise exchanges could be tested on other array geometries such as circular or planar arrays.

Load-bearing premise

Simulation results obtained by concatenating raw IQ inputs under idealized channel models will translate directly to real-world multi-antenna receivers without extra impairments or hardware effects.

What would settle it

A controlled over-the-air experiment with physical multi-antenna hardware that measures recognition accuracy under the same modulation set and signal-to-noise ratios used in the simulations.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.00849 by Jiepeng Chen, Qi Xuan, Shilian Zheng, Tao Chen, Xiaoniu Yang, Zhangbin Pei.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The process of modulation recognition of multi antenna receiving system based on Deep Learning. where real(·) and imag(·) represent extracting the real part and imaginary part of the signal received by the i-th antenna, Ii(n) and Qi(n) are the in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) components of the signal yi(n). After￾wards, the IQ components of the received signals are spliced to obtain Y as Y =        … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The structure of residual. [54], which improve the performance of the model through the stacking of neural networks. However, when the depth increases to a certain extent, the net￾work has a degradation problem, i.e., the performance reaches saturation and even the accuracy decreases. In order to avoid the degradation of deep network, a new network structure ResNet has been proposed. ResNet introduces the … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Structure of the constructed ResNet56, “avg￾pool” stands for average pooling layer. The repetition times of Residual block1, Residual block2 and Residual block3 are 9. We design a ResNet network structure based on the above residual blocks for MAMR in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: The process of data augmentation by exchanging IQ sequences of each antenna, n = 0, 1, . . . , N −1, N represents the length of the signal. Yi,j represents the data obtained by exchanging the IQ sequence of the i-th antenna and the j-th antenna. IQi (n) represents the I-channel and Q-channel components received by the i-th antenna. The two sequences can be exchanged to obtain the augmented sample Yi,j as Y… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Recognition accuracy of different methods. formance gain of MAMR-IQ method over MAMR￾DV method and MAMR-WA method increases as the number of antennas grows. Specifically, when the number of antennas is 2, MAMR-IQ method outper￾forms the other methods by 4%. However, when the number of antennas is 16, MAMR-IQ method exhibits a surprisingly high performance gain of 13.6%. Over￾all, MAMR-IQ method we proposed… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: The confusion matrices of different methods. WA methods. 4.2.3 Performance in Random Antenna Setting In real-world scenarios, we may encounter the situ￾ation of variant antenna array settings. To account for this, we use the dataset with random phase offset among the received signals of different antenna ele￾ments. The number of antennas in this experiment is 2 and the accuracy under different SNR is shown… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Recognition accuracy in random antenna setting [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Recognition accuracy under different exchange times. 4.3.1 Time Complexity Time complexity of MAMR-IQ method refers to the complexity of the ResNet56 network computation in the inference stage, whereas MAMR-DV method’s complexity includes both the neural network com￾putation and the direct voting process. Meanwhile, MAMR-WA method’s complexity comprises the neu￾ral network computation and the weight averag… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: The confusion matrices of augmentation method at sample ratio = 0.01. size, Tin and Tout are the numbers of input channels and output channels of the convolution kernel. 4.3.2 Space Complexity The space complexity S is independent of the input size, but is related to the neural network model. There￾fore, the space complexity mainly includes two parts. The first part W is the total number of weight parame￾t… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Multi-antenna receiving systems have become a prevalent technical solution in communication systems. Meanwhile, deep learning has achieved significant progress in automatic modulation recognition tasks in single-antenna systems. However, the application of deep learning in multi-antenna modulation recognition (MAMR) tasks is still limited. In this paper, we propose an MAMR method namely MAMR-IQ to fully explore the diversity gain of a multi-antenna receiving system, which concatenates the raw received in-phase and quadrature (IQ) signals of multiple antennas and feeds them into a convolutional neural network. Simulation results show that the proposed MAMR-IQ method outperforms two existing deep learning-based MAMR methods which are based on direct voting (DV) and weight average (WA) in terms of both recognition accuracy and computational complexity. To address the problem of limited training data in few-shot scenarios, we further propose a data augmentation method that involves exchanging IQ sequences received by any two antennas to generate augmented samples. Simulation results show that with the proposed augmentation method, the recognition accuracy can be further improved.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes MAMR-IQ, a method that concatenates raw multi-antenna IQ samples and feeds them directly into a CNN for automatic modulation recognition. It claims this outperforms two prior DL-based MAMR baselines (direct voting and weighted averaging) in both classification accuracy and computational complexity. A simple IQ-exchange augmentation is introduced to improve few-shot performance, with simulation results showing further accuracy gains.

Significance. If the reported simulation gains hold under reproducible conditions, the work demonstrates that joint CNN processing of concatenated multi-antenna IQ can extract spatial diversity more effectively than post-processing ensembles, offering a low-complexity alternative for MAMR. The augmentation technique provides a lightweight way to address training-data scarcity without requiring new channel models or hardware.

major comments (3)
  1. Experimental Setup section: no details are supplied on the number of antennas, modulation formats, SNR ranges, dataset sizes, channel models (e.g., AWGN vs. fading), or training/validation splits. These parameters are load-bearing for the central claim that MAMR-IQ outperforms DV and WA, as the reported accuracy and complexity advantages cannot be assessed or reproduced without them.
  2. Results section (accuracy and complexity comparisons): the paper states superior performance but provides neither error bars, statistical significance tests, nor the exact CNN architectures and hyperparameters used for the DV and WA baselines. Without these, it is impossible to determine whether the gains arise from the concatenation approach or from differences in model capacity or training.
  3. Few-shot augmentation experiments: quantitative results on the number of augmented samples generated per original example, the specific shot levels tested, and the resulting accuracy deltas are missing. This information is required to evaluate whether the IQ-exchange method meaningfully mitigates data scarcity or merely inflates the training set size.
minor comments (2)
  1. The abstract and introduction use the acronym MAMR without an initial definition; add “multi-antenna modulation recognition (MAMR)” on first use.
  2. Figure captions for the performance curves should explicitly state the number of Monte Carlo trials and the exact SNR grid used.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which highlight important aspects for improving the clarity and reproducibility of our work. We have prepared point-by-point responses below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate the requested details.

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  1. Referee: Experimental Setup section: no details are supplied on the number of antennas, modulation formats, SNR ranges, dataset sizes, channel models (e.g., AWGN vs. fading), or training/validation splits. These parameters are load-bearing for the central claim that MAMR-IQ outperforms DV and WA, as the reported accuracy and complexity advantages cannot be assessed or reproduced without them.

    Authors: We agree that these experimental parameters are essential for assessing and reproducing the results. The original manuscript did not provide a complete description of the simulation setup. In the revised version, we will expand the Experimental Setup section to explicitly state the number of antennas, the modulation formats considered, the SNR ranges, the dataset sizes, the channel models (AWGN and fading), and the training/validation/test splits. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Results section (accuracy and complexity comparisons): the paper states superior performance but provides neither error bars, statistical significance tests, nor the exact CNN architectures and hyperparameters used for the DV and WA baselines. Without these, it is impossible to determine whether the gains arise from the concatenation approach or from differences in model capacity or training.

    Authors: We acknowledge the need for greater transparency and statistical rigor in the comparisons. The manuscript used the same underlying CNN for all methods to enable fair evaluation, but did not report error bars, significance tests, or full hyperparameter details for the baselines. In the revision, we will add error bars to the performance plots, include statistical significance tests, and provide the exact CNN architectures and training hyperparameters employed for MAMR-IQ, DV, and WA. revision: yes

  3. Referee: Few-shot augmentation experiments: quantitative results on the number of augmented samples generated per original example, the specific shot levels tested, and the resulting accuracy deltas are missing. This information is required to evaluate whether the IQ-exchange method meaningfully mitigates data scarcity or merely inflates the training set size.

    Authors: We agree that more precise quantitative information is required to properly evaluate the augmentation technique. The original manuscript described the IQ-exchange approach at a high level but omitted the specific counts and deltas. In the revised manuscript, we will report the number of augmented samples generated per original example, the shot levels tested, and the resulting accuracy improvements to demonstrate the method's effectiveness in few-shot scenarios. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper is an empirical ML study proposing MAMR-IQ (raw multi-antenna IQ concatenation into CNN) and comparing it via simulation to external baselines DV and WA. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the argument. Performance claims rest on reported simulation accuracy and complexity metrics against independent methods, with the augmentation technique also evaluated empirically. The derivation chain is self-contained and does not reduce to its own inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Paper rests on standard assumptions that CNNs can extract features from concatenated IQ tensors and that simulated channels represent real performance; no free parameters or invented entities are named in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Convolutional neural networks can effectively learn modulation features from raw multi-antenna IQ samples
    Implicit in the choice of CNN architecture for the concatenated input

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