2020 IEEE International Symposium
on Information Theory
21-26 June 2020 • Los Angeles, California, USA
| Paper ID | L.8.4 | ||
| Paper Title | Data-Driven Factor Graphs for Deep Symbol Detection | ||
| Authors | Nir Shlezinger, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel; Nariman Farsad, Stanford, United States; Yonina Eldar, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel; Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford, United States | ||
| Session | L.8: Learning and Message-Passing | ||
| Presentation | Lecture | ||
| Track | Statistics and Learning Theory | ||
| Manuscript | Click here to download the manuscript | ||
| Virtual Presentation | Click here to watch in the Virtual Symposium | ||
| Abstract | Many important schemes in signal processing and communications, ranging from the BCJR algorithm to the Kalman filter, are instances of factor graph methods. This family of algorithms is based on recursive message passing-based computations carried out over graphical models, representing a factorization of the underlying statistics. In order to implement these algorithms, one must have accurate knowledge of the statistical model of the underlying signals. In this work we implement factor graph methods in a data-driven manner when the statistics are unknown. In particular, we propose using machine learning (ML) tools to learn the factor graph, instead of the overall system task, which in turn is used for inference by message passing over the learned graph. We apply the proposed approach to learn the factor graph representing a finite-memory channel, demonstrating the resulting ability to implement BCJR detection in a data-driven fashion. We demonstrate that the proposed system, referred to as BCJRNet, learns to implement the BCJR algorithm from a small training set, and that the resulting receiver exhibits improved robustness to inaccurate training compared to the conventional channel-model-based receiver operating under the same level of uncertainty. Our results indicate that by utilizing ML tools to learn factor graphs from labeled data, one can implement a broad range of model-based algorithms, which traditionally require full knowledge of the underlying statistics, in a data-driven fashion. | ||
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