Wireless Power Control Based on Large Language Models
This addresses computational bottlenecks in wireless networks for improved efficiency, though it is incremental as it adapts existing LLMs.
The paper tackles the power control problem in wireless networks by using pre-trained large language models (LLMs) as relational reasoning backbones, achieving state-of-the-art spectral efficiency with a 50% reduction in model depth for lower inference cost.
This paper investigates the power control problem in wireless networks by repurposing pre-trained large language models (LLMs) as relational reasoning backbones. In hyper-connected interference environments, traditional optimization methods face high computational cost, while standard message passing neural networks suffer from aggregation bottlenecks that can obscure critical high-interference structures. In response, we propose PC-LLM, a physics-informed framework that augments a pre-trained Transformer with an interference-aware attention bias. The proposed bias tuning mechanism injects the physical channel gain matrix directly into the self-attention logits, enabling explicit fusion of wireless topology with pre-trained relational priors without retraining the backbone from scratch. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PC-LLM consistently outperforms both traditional optimization methods and state-of-the-art graph neural network baselines, while exhibiting exceptional zero-shot generalization to unseen environments. We further observe a structural-semantic decoupling phenomenon: Topology-relevant relational reasoning is concentrated in shallow layers, whereas deeper layers encode task-irrelevant semantic noise. Motivated by this finding, we develop a lightweight adaptation strategy that reduces model depth by 50\%, significantly lowering inference cost while preserving state-of-the-art spectral efficiency.