eess.SYMar 19, 2026

RadioDiff-FS: Physics-Informed Manifold Alignment in Few-Shot Diffusion Models for High-Fidelity Radio Map Construction

Authors: Xiucheng Wang, Zixuan Guo, Nan Cheng

Organizations: State Key Laboratory of ISN and School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China · School of Physics, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China

Abstract

Radio maps (RMs) provide spatially continuous propagation characterizations essential for 6G network planning, but high-fidelity RM construction remains challenging. Rigorous electromagnetic solvers incur prohibitive computational latency, while data-driven models demand massive labeled datasets and generalize poorly from simplified simulations to complex multipath environments. This paper proposes RadioDiff-FS, a few-shot diffusion framework that adapts a pretrained main-path generator to multipath-rich target domains with only a small number of high-fidelity samples. The adaptation is grounded in a theoretical decomposition of the multipath RM into a dominant main-path component and a directionally sparse residual. This decomposition shows that the cross-domain shift corresponds to a bounded and geometrically structured feature translation rather than an arbitrary distribution change. A direction-consistency loss (DCL) is then introduced to constrain diffusion score updates along physically plausible propagation directions, thereby suppressing phase-inconsistent artifacts that arise in the low-data regime. Experiments show that RadioDiff-FS reduces NMSE by 59.5% on static RMs and by 74.0% on dynamic RMs relative to the vanilla diffusion baseline, achieving an SSIM of 0.9752 and a PSNR of 36.37 dB under severely limited supervision. Even in a one-shot setting with a single target-domain sample per scene, RadioDiff-FS outperforms all fully supervised baselines, confirming that the directional constraint provides an effective inductive bias under extreme data scarcity. Code is available at https://github.com/UNIC-Lab/RadioDiff-FS.

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