feat(MERIDIAN): CSI masked-autoencoder pre-training — ADR-027 re-scope + iter-1 scaffold (#68)

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Re-scopes MERIDIAN (ADR-027 / #68) toward the 2026-Q2 SOTA conclusion — cross-room generalisation is a data-breadth problem — and lands the first implementation iteration. Draft: iterating via /loop until the prototype is complete (see Roadmap below).

What's here (iteration 1)

1. docs/research/sota/2026-Q2-agentic-ai-and-edge-for-ruview.md — the survey that motivates this: agentic-AI breakthroughs + RF/WiFi-sensing SOTA, mapped to RuView ADRs. (Also published as a gist.)
2. ADR-027 §2.0 re-scope — the primary MERIDIAN path is now: (1) pre-train a CIG-MAE-style dual-stream amplitude+phase masked autoencoder on heterogeneous CSI; (2) fine-tune the existing §2.1–§2.6 heads (17-kpt/DensePose, AETHER, domain-adversarial, geometry-conditioned) on top; (3) per-room source-free domain adaptation behind coherence_gate.rs::Recalibrate (separate ADR). §2.1+ is retained, re-framed as the fine-tune-stage head. References: arXiv:2511.18792 (data > capacity), 2512.04723 (CIG-MAE), 2605.01369 (MU-SHOT-Fi), 2506.12052, ACM TOSN 10.1145/3715130.
3. wifi-densepose-train::csi_mae — the masking pipeline:
   • MaeConfig (+validate), MaskStrategy {Random, InfoGuided}
   • TokenLayout — flattens a [T,tx,rx,sub] CSI window to [N=T·tx·rx, sub] tokens (the layout model.rs::ModalityTranslator already consumes)
   • mask_csi_window — deterministic visible/masked partition + amp & phase reconstruction targets; reproducible via a tiny inline SplitMix64 PRNG (no new dep); clamps so both partitions are non-empty
   • reassemble_tokens — round-trips visible + predicted tokens back to a full grid (for reconstruction eval/viz)
   • csi_mae::model — gated behind tch-backend; v0 stub for now (interface fixed, networks land in iter 2)
   • 8 new unit tests; cargo test -p wifi-densepose-train --no-default-features → 118 lib tests pass (the tch-gated submodule is not exercised by the default workspace job — compile-checking it needs LibTorch).

Diff: 4 files, +888.

Roadmap (the /loop will work through this until complete)

• iter 2 — the tch encoder/decoder (dual-stream → shared latent → narrow decoder over all positions with learned mask tokens → reconstruct amp+phase), reconstruction_loss, pretrain_step, a pretrain-mae binary on SyntheticCsiDataset/MmFiDataset; information-guided masking; a gated "loss decreases over N steps on synthetic data" smoke test.
• iter 3+ — pool & ingest heterogeneous CSI; a real pre-train run (GPU — scripts/gcloud-train.sh / cognitum); wire the §2.x heads on top; cross-domain eval (ADR-027 §4.6); ship the encoder as an RVF segment (§4.7).
• mark PR ready when iter 2 is in and green.

Notes

• Per-room source-free adaptation (MERIDIAN stage 3) is intentionally out of scope here — its own ADR/PR.
• Branch made off main (post fix: ESP32 CSI 0pps (#521), aggregator sibling magics (#517), version.txt (#505) + fix-marker CI guard #526/ci: fix "Update vendor submodules" workflow (git identity + drop --merge) #528), not the feat/ruvllm-sparse-attention-edge (Integrate ruvllm_sparse_attention for on-ESP32-S3 temporal modeling + AETHER temporal head #513) branch.

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Iteration 2 complete — marking ready for review (the loop continues for iteration 3: heterogeneous-CSI ingest plan + GPU pre-train wiring stubs + per-sample masking / transformer blocks + fine-tuning the §2.x heads on the pre-trained encoder + cross-domain eval).

Added since the draft:

• iter 2a — MaskStrategy::InfoGuided: CIG-MAE-style masking, weighting token selection by per-token information (variance of amplitude + variance of phase), exact weighted-without-replacement (Efraimidis–Spirakis), deterministic in seed. +3 tests.
• iter 2b — csi_mae::model behind tch-backend: CsiMae (dual-stream amp+phase per-token embed → fuse → residual-MLP encoder over visible tokens → flatten-to-latent bottleneck → learned per-position query + broadcast latent → residual-MLP decoder → dec_amp_head/dec_ph_head → index_select masked positions); reconstruction_loss (MSE amp + w·MSE phase); MaeBatch::from_windows (partition from window 0, reused across the batch — n_tokens is fixed); pretrain_step; src/bin/pretrain_mae.rs (synthetic-data driver); a #[cfg(feature="tch-backend")] smoke test (loss halves when overfitting one batch). v0 limits documented: fixed n_tokens, batch-shared masking, MSE on unwrapped phase.

cargo test -p wifi-densepose-train --no-default-features → 121 lib tests pass (the model module + the bin are feature-gated; the dev box has no LibTorch, so the tch-backend path is CI-verified). PR diff now 6 files, +1441.

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Prototype complete — loop stopped.

Final state of feat/meridian-csi-mae-prototype (6 files, +1643 vs main):

• iter 1 — csi_mae masking pipeline (MaeConfig/validate, MaskStrategy, TokenLayout, deterministic mask_csi_window/reassemble_tokens, dependency-free PRNG) + ADR-027 §2.0 re-scope + the 2026-Q2 SOTA survey.
• iter 2a — MaskStrategy::InfoGuided (CIG-MAE-style, variance-weighted token selection, Efraimidis–Spirakis, deterministic in seed).
• iter 2b — csi_mae::model (tch-backend): CsiMae (dual-stream amp+phase encoder over visible tokens → latent → decoder with learned per-position query → reconstruct masked amp+phase), reconstruction_loss, MaeBatch::from_windows, pretrain_step, bin/pretrain-mae, a gated "loss halves when overfitting one batch" smoke test. v0 limits documented (fixed n_tokens, batch-shared masking, MSE on unwrapped phase).
• iter 3 — scripts/pretrain-mae-gcloud.sh (GCloud GPU driver, mirrors gcloud-train.sh; one TODO = heterogeneous-corpus plumbing), ADR-027 §2.0 "Iteration 3 plan" (ingest spec, GPU run, lifting the v0 limits, fine-tune handoff via --init-encoder, cross-domain eval, RVF segment), wifi-densepose-train/README.md section.

cargo test -p wifi-densepose-train --no-default-features → 121 lib tests pass (the tch-backend model module + bin are feature-gated and CI-verified — no LibTorch on the dev box).

Out of scope for the prototype (= iter 3 execution): the heterogeneous-CSI ingest implementation, the actual GPU pre-train run, per-sample masking + transformer blocks, and fine-tuning the §2.x heads on the pre-trained encoder. All planned in ADR-027 §2.0.

Ready for review.

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