KANsformer for Scalable Beamforming
Xinke Xie, Yang Lu, Chong‐Yung Chi, Wei Ren Chen, Bo Ai, Dusit Tao Niyato · IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology · 2025
This paper proposes an unsupervised deep-learning (DL) approach by integrating Transformer and Kolmogorov–Arnold networks (KAN) termed KANsformer to realize scalable beamforming for mobile communication systems. Specifically, we consider a classic multiple-input single-output energy efficiency maximization problem subject to the total power budget. The proposed KANsformer first extracts hidden features via a multi-head self-attention mechanism and then reads out the desired beamforming design via KAN. Numerical results are provided to evaluate the KANsformer in terms of generalization performance, transfer learning and ablation experiment. Overall, the KANsformer outperforms the existing benchmark DL approaches, and is adaptable to the variation in the number of mobile users with real-time and near-optimal inference.