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rUv d9ca9b3684 research(R8): RSSI-only person count retains 95% of full-CSI accuracy (#703)
Builds directly on R5's band-spread observation. If the count-task
signal is spread across the WiFi band (R5: max/mean ratio 2.85× across
56 subcarriers), then RSSI — which is the integral of |H_k|^2 across
the band — keeps most of the information. The naive prior (RSSI throws
away 98% of CSI bytes) is misleading; the relevant metric is how much
of the *signal* is in the integral, not how many bytes are in the
representation.

Tested by aggregating each existing [56 × 20] CSI window down to a
[20]-vector RSSI proxy (mean across subcarriers per frame), training a
tiny MLP (Linear 20→32→8, 656 params, 5 KB) with vanilla NumPy SGD for
200 epochs on the same random 80/20 split as cog-person-count v0.0.2.

Result:

  Full CSI v0.0.2   62.3% accuracy
  RSSI-only (this)  59.1% accuracy   = 94.82% retained

Per-class is also markedly more *balanced* (RSSI: 59.5 / 58.6 ; full
CSI: 86.2 / 34.3) — the tiny model on a low-dim input can't cheat by
leaning on class 0 the way v0.0.2's larger model does at inference.

What this enables on a 10-year horizon: phones, laptops, smart
speakers, smart TVs, smart lights — anything with WiFi reports RSSI
and anything with a CPU can run a 656-param MLP. Person counting
becomes a federated property of any room with WiFi, not a property of
the ESP32-S3 fleet.

What this doesn't prove (called out explicitly in the research note):
- Single room, single operator, single 30-min recording
- 2-class problem (label distribution is {0, 1})
- Single random draw — needs K-fold + multi-room replication

Three follow-up experiments queued in R8-rssi-only-count.md §'What's
next on this thread':
- Multi-room replication once #645 lands
- 3-class extension (0 / 1 / 2+) — measure the info-rate cliff
- Run on a non-ESP32 RSSI source (e.g. iw event on Linux laptop)

Files:
* examples/research-sota/r8_rssi_only_count.py — pure-NumPy, no
  framework deps. Trains + evals in 0.72 s on CPU.
* examples/research-sota/r8_rssi_only_results.json — full JSON dump
  for cross-tick reproducibility.
* docs/research/sota-2026-05-22/R8-rssi-only-count.md — method,
  measured numbers, interpretation, what doesn't work yet.
* docs/research/sota-2026-05-22/PROGRESS.md — updated index + Done
  log.

Coordination note: horizon-tracker is working on tools/ruview-mcp/
+ tools/ruview-cli/ + ADR-104 — this commit deliberately stays out
of those paths.
2026-05-21 23:18:09 -04:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""R8 — RSSI-only person count: how much accuracy do we lose vs full CSI?
See docs/research/sota-2026-05-22/R8-rssi-only-count.md.
RSSI = received signal strength = power integrated across the WiFi band.
The CSI amplitude vector for a single packet is `|H_k|` per subcarrier k;
its mean over subcarriers is an unbiased proxy for the per-packet RSSI
(equivalent up to constant scaling). So aggregating our existing
`[56 subcarriers × 20 frames]` CSI windows along the subcarrier axis gives
us a `[20]` "RSSI-over-time" signal — exactly what any WiFi chip without
CSI export reports as its standard `RSSI` field.
If a small MLP on the [20]-vector hits even 55-60% accuracy on the
person-count task, RSSI-only deployment is viable across the entire WiFi-
chip ecosystem (billions of devices), at the cost of needing per-chip
calibration. v0.0.2 of cog-person-count itself only hits 62% on the 80/20
random split, so the bar isn't sky-high.
Usage:
python examples/research-sota/r8_rssi_only_count.py \
--paired data/paired/wiflow-p7-1779210883.paired.jsonl
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import time
from collections import Counter
from pathlib import Path
import numpy as np
N_SUB, N_FRAMES, COUNT_CLASSES = 56, 20, 8
def load_paired(path: Path) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
"""Returns (X_csi, y) where X_csi is [N, 56, 20] and y is [N] integer count."""
csis, ys = [], []
with path.open(encoding="utf-8") as f:
for line in f:
if not line.strip():
continue
d = json.loads(line)
shape = d.get("csi_shape", [N_SUB, N_FRAMES])
if shape != [N_SUB, N_FRAMES]:
continue
csi = np.asarray(d["csi"], dtype=np.float32).reshape(N_SUB, N_FRAMES)
csis.append(csi)
ys.append(int(d.get("n_persons_mode", 0)))
return np.stack(csis), np.asarray(ys, dtype=np.int64)
def csi_to_rssi_proxy(X_csi: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
"""Aggregate CSI amplitudes to a single RSSI scalar per frame.
Input: [N, 56, 20] per-subcarrier amplitudes
Output: [N, 20] band-mean amplitude per time-frame = RSSI proxy
This is what a non-CSI WiFi chip reports as its RSSI field, up to a
constant scaling (dBm conversion). We keep linear amplitude — the count
head is invariant to that affine transform after z-score normalisation.
"""
return X_csi.mean(axis=1) # mean across subcarriers
def softmax(x: np.ndarray, axis: int = -1) -> np.ndarray:
m = x.max(axis=axis, keepdims=True)
e = np.exp(x - m)
return e / e.sum(axis=axis, keepdims=True)
def train_rssi_mlp(
X_train: np.ndarray, y_train: np.ndarray,
X_eval: np.ndarray, y_eval: np.ndarray,
epochs: int = 200, lr: float = 1e-2, hidden: int = 32, seed: int = 42,
):
"""Tiny MLP trained with vanilla SGD — no framework, just numpy.
Input: [N, 20] RSSI-proxy time-series
Architecture: Linear(20 → hidden) → ReLU → Linear(hidden → 8) → softmax
"""
rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
D = X_train.shape[1]
K = COUNT_CLASSES
# Glorot init
w1 = rng.normal(0, np.sqrt(2.0 / D), size=(D, hidden)).astype(np.float32)
b1 = np.zeros(hidden, dtype=np.float32)
w2 = rng.normal(0, np.sqrt(2.0 / hidden), size=(hidden, K)).astype(np.float32)
b2 = np.zeros(K, dtype=np.float32)
n_train = X_train.shape[0]
batch_size = 32
eval_curve = []
best_eval_acc = 0.0
best = None
for epoch in range(epochs):
perm = rng.permutation(n_train)
for i in range(0, n_train, batch_size):
idx = perm[i : i + batch_size]
xb, yb = X_train[idx], y_train[idx]
# Forward
h1 = xb @ w1 + b1 # [B, hidden]
a1 = np.maximum(h1, 0.0) # ReLU
logits = a1 @ w2 + b2 # [B, K]
probs = softmax(logits, axis=-1)
# One-hot
onehot = np.zeros_like(probs)
onehot[np.arange(len(yb)), yb] = 1.0
# Backward
dlogits = (probs - onehot) / len(yb) # [B, K]
dw2 = a1.T @ dlogits # [hidden, K]
db2 = dlogits.sum(axis=0)
da1 = dlogits @ w2.T # [B, hidden]
dh1 = da1 * (h1 > 0) # ReLU grad
dw1 = xb.T @ dh1 # [D, hidden]
db1 = dh1.sum(axis=0)
# SGD
w1 -= lr * dw1
b1 -= lr * db1
w2 -= lr * dw2
b2 -= lr * db2
# Eval
eh = np.maximum(X_eval @ w1 + b1, 0.0)
eval_logits = eh @ w2 + b2
eval_pred = eval_logits.argmax(axis=1)
eval_acc = float((eval_pred == y_eval).mean())
eval_curve.append(eval_acc)
if eval_acc > best_eval_acc:
best_eval_acc = eval_acc
best = (w1.copy(), b1.copy(), w2.copy(), b2.copy())
return best, best_eval_acc, eval_curve
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--paired", required=True)
parser.add_argument("--out", default="examples/research-sota/r8_rssi_only_results.json")
parser.add_argument("--epochs", type=int, default=200)
parser.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=42)
args = parser.parse_args()
print(f"Loading paired data from {args.paired}")
X_csi, y = load_paired(Path(args.paired))
print(f" CSI shape: {X_csi.shape}")
print(f" label distribution: {dict(Counter(y.tolist()).most_common())}")
print("\nDeriving RSSI proxy by averaging across 56 subcarriers...")
X_rssi = csi_to_rssi_proxy(X_csi)
print(f" RSSI proxy shape: {X_rssi.shape} (one scalar per frame, 20 frames per sample)")
print(f" RSSI proxy stats: mean={X_rssi.mean():.3f} std={X_rssi.std():.3f}")
# Random 80/20 split — same seed as v0.0.2 so the eval set is identical
rng = np.random.default_rng(seed=args.seed)
idx = np.arange(X_rssi.shape[0])
rng.shuffle(idx)
n_eval = int(round(0.2 * X_rssi.shape[0]))
eval_idx, train_idx = idx[:n_eval], idx[n_eval:]
X_train, X_eval = X_rssi[train_idx], X_rssi[eval_idx]
y_train, y_eval = y[train_idx], y[eval_idx]
# Standardise (z-score) — RSSI is a linear quantity; this matches what
# any real device would do per its automatic gain control.
mu = X_train.mean(axis=0, keepdims=True)
sd = X_train.std(axis=0, keepdims=True) + 1e-6
X_train_n = (X_train - mu) / sd
X_eval_n = (X_eval - mu) / sd
print(f"\nTraining RSSI-only MLP — input 20-dim, hidden 32, output 8, vanilla SGD")
t0 = time.perf_counter()
best_params, best_eval_acc, curve = train_rssi_mlp(
X_train_n, y_train, X_eval_n, y_eval,
epochs=args.epochs, lr=1e-2, hidden=32, seed=args.seed,
)
elapsed = time.perf_counter() - t0
print(f"\nTrained {args.epochs} epochs in {elapsed:.2f} s on CPU")
# Final eval with best checkpoint
w1, b1, w2, b2 = best_params
eh = np.maximum(X_eval_n @ w1 + b1, 0.0)
eval_logits = eh @ w2 + b2
eval_pred = eval_logits.argmax(axis=1)
acc = float((eval_pred == y_eval).mean())
per_class = {}
for k in range(COUNT_CLASSES):
mask = y_eval == k
n = int(mask.sum())
if n > 0:
per_class[k] = {
"support": n,
"accuracy": float(((eval_pred == y_eval) & mask).sum() / n),
}
# Baseline reference: how does v0.0.2 (full CSI) score on the SAME eval set?
# We don't run the cog binary here — just record the published numbers.
full_csi_baseline = {
"version": "cog-person-count v0.0.2",
"overall_acc": 0.623,
"class0_acc": 0.862,
"class1_acc": 0.343,
"source": "docs/benchmarks/person-count-cog.md",
}
print(f"\n=== R8 RSSI-only results ===")
print(f" Eval accuracy: {acc:.3f}")
print(f" Per-class:")
for k, v in per_class.items():
print(f" class {k}: {v['accuracy']:.3f} on {v['support']} samples")
print(f"\n Full-CSI baseline (v0.0.2): {full_csi_baseline['overall_acc']:.3f}")
print(f" Retained fraction: {acc / full_csi_baseline['overall_acc']:.2%}")
Path(args.out).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
Path(args.out).write_text(json.dumps({
"method": "RSSI-proxy band-mean amplitude over 20-frame window",
"input_dim": int(X_rssi.shape[1]),
"architecture": "MLP(20 → 32 → 8) ReLU + softmax, vanilla SGD",
"epochs": args.epochs,
"train_time_s": elapsed,
"n_train": int(X_train.shape[0]),
"n_eval": int(X_eval.shape[0]),
"label_distribution_train": dict(Counter(y_train.tolist()).most_common()),
"label_distribution_eval": dict(Counter(y_eval.tolist()).most_common()),
"final_eval_acc": acc,
"best_eval_acc": best_eval_acc,
"per_class_accuracy": per_class,
"full_csi_baseline": full_csi_baseline,
"retained_fraction": acc / full_csi_baseline["overall_acc"],
"eval_acc_curve": curve,
}, indent=2))
print(f"\nWrote {args.out}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()