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Foundation Models for Wireless Localization: Pretraining, Adaptation, and Utilization
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Accurate wireless localization is a key enabler for 6G networks, yet remains challenging under diverse and rapidly changing propagation conditions. Model-based methods degrade when multipath channels are non-resolvable and model mismatches occur, while supervised deep learning demands large labeled datasets and generalizes poorly to new deployments. Inspired by foundation models (FMs) in language and vision, this article presents a unified framework for FM-based wireless localization that learns transferable channel representations from large-scale unlabeled channel state information and adapts to new environments with minimal or even no supervision. We review the fundamentals of FMs, compare the FM paradigm with existing localization approaches, and introduce a three-stage framework spanning large-scale pretraining, localization-oriented fine-tuning, and context-augmented inference, together with the location-aware applications it enables. Ray-tracing-based case studies show improved positioning accuracy and cross-environment generalization. Finally, we present an outlook on key research directions toward AI-native networks for wireless localization.
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