GLCR: Global-Local Collaborative Routing for Multi-Task Electromagnetic Signal Processing

Fang Lu, Yao Lu, Zhuangzhi Chen, Sicheng Zhang, Shanqing Yu +3

Deep neural networks for electromagnetic signal processing are typically developed as single-task experts with fixed inputs and objectives, limiting cross-task transferability. Electromagnetic foundation models offer broader task coverage but incur substantial pretraining and inference costs. To balance accuracy and efficiency, we adopt model routing to dynamically dispatch unknown signals to matched experts within a heterogeneous pool. We construct HeteroSignal-7, a multi-task routing benchmark with 140,000 samples from seven datasets covering six task types, paired with seven classification and waveform-recovery experts and a unified evaluation protocol. We then propose GLCR, a two-stage routing method combining global dispatch with local discrimination of similar tasks. First, a lightweight one-dimensional convolutional neural network (CNN) with an additive-margin head predicts one of seven routing classes. Second, a gradient-boosted-tree specialist uses four physical statistics to re-evaluate samples whose top two candidates match a confusion pair automatically identified from validation errors. The pipeline is trained across the full signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) range and…