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AI LLM March 19, 2026

BeamAgent: LLM-Aided MIMO Beamforming with Decoupled Intent Parsing and Alternating Optimization for Joint Site Selection and Precoding

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Xiucheng Wang, Yue Zhang, Nan Cheng

Abstract

Integrating large language models (LLMs) into wireless communication optimization is a promising yet challenging direction. Existing approaches either use LLMs as black-box solvers or code generators, tightly coupling them with numerical computation. However, LLMs lack the precision required for physical-layer optimization, and the scarcity of wireless training data makes domain-specific fine-tuning impractical. We propose BeamAgent, an LLM-aided MIMO beamforming framework that explicitly decouples semantic intent parsing from numerical optimization. The LLM serves solely as a semantic translator that converts natural language descriptions into structured spatial constraints. A dedicated gradient-based optimizer then jointly solves the discrete base station site selection and continuous precoding design through an alternating optimization algorithm. A scene-aware prompt enables grounded spatial reasoning without fine-tuning, and a multi-round interaction mechanism with dual-layer intent classification ensures robust constraint verification. A penalty-based loss function enforces dark-zone power constraints while releasing optimization degrees of freedom for bright-zone gain maximization. Experiments on a ray-tracing-based urban MIMO scenario show that BeamAgent achieves a bright-zone power of 84.0\,dB, outperforming exhaustive zero-forcing by 7.1 dB under the same dark-zone constraint. The end-to-end system reaches within 3.3 dB of the expert upper bound, with the full optimization completing in under 2 s on a laptop.

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arXiv ID: 2603.18855
Provider: ARXIV
Primary Category: cs.IT
Published: 2026-03-19
Fetched: 2026-03-20 06:02

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