{"title":"MSNCIL: A Domain-Agnostic Class-Incremental Learning Method Tailored for Automatic Modulation Recognition","authors":"Zhiwen Deng;Chunbo Luo;Zixi Tang;Yang Luo","doi":"10.1109/LCOMM.2025.3565561","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of new modulation types in 6G challenges the adaptability of deep learning-based automatic modulation recognition (DL-AMR) models. This letter presents multi-state neuron class-incremental learning (MSNCIL), the first domain-agnostic class-incremental learning (CIL) method for AMR. Leveraging the sparsity of wireless signal features, MSNCIL dynamically partitions a DL-AMR model into specialized sub-models, each dedicated to different modulation types. In each session, neurons are selected based on activation values, trained, frozen, and assigned state values. During inference, the session ID of a test sample is identified, which directs the corresponding neurons for recognition. Extensive experiments confirm MSNCIL’s effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":13197,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Communications Letters","volume":"29 6","pages":"1456-1460"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Communications Letters","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10980115/","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"TELECOMMUNICATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The emergence of new modulation types in 6G challenges the adaptability of deep learning-based automatic modulation recognition (DL-AMR) models. This letter presents multi-state neuron class-incremental learning (MSNCIL), the first domain-agnostic class-incremental learning (CIL) method for AMR. Leveraging the sparsity of wireless signal features, MSNCIL dynamically partitions a DL-AMR model into specialized sub-models, each dedicated to different modulation types. In each session, neurons are selected based on activation values, trained, frozen, and assigned state values. During inference, the session ID of a test sample is identified, which directs the corresponding neurons for recognition. Extensive experiments confirm MSNCIL’s effectiveness.
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The IEEE Communications Letters publishes short papers in a rapid publication cycle on advances in the state-of-the-art of communication over different media and channels including wire, underground, waveguide, optical fiber, and storage channels. Both theoretical contributions (including new techniques, concepts, and analyses) and practical contributions (including system experiments and prototypes, and new applications) are encouraged. This journal focuses on the physical layer and the link layer of communication systems.