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Learning to Unfold Fractional Programming for Multi-Cell MU-MIMO Beamforming with Graph Neural Networks

Signal Processing 2026-01-13 v1

Abstract

In the multi-cell multiuser multi-input multi-output (MU-MIMO) systems, fractional programming (FP) has demonstrated considerable effectiveness in optimizing beamforming vectors, yet it suffers from high computational complexity. Recent improvements demonstrate reduced complexity by avoiding large-dimension matrix inversions (i.e., FastFP) and faster convergence by learning to unfold the FastFP algorithm (i.e., DeepFP).

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@article{arxiv.2601.07630,
  title  = {Learning to Unfold Fractional Programming for Multi-Cell MU-MIMO Beamforming with Graph Neural Networks},
  author = {Zihan Jiao and Xinping Yi and Shi Jin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.07630},
  year   = {2026}
}