Guide

Technical documentation for the ICE-ICL architecture — from the diagnostic observations that motivated the design through to the implementation details of each phase.

• Why Redesign the ICL Backbone?
  • The Starting Point: nanotabicl
  • The MIMO Analogy
  • Three Structural Problems
  • Convergence of the Diagnosis
  • Experimental Lineage
• Architecture
  • Pipeline Overview
  • Shared Frontend
  • Arm A — Baseline (NanoTabICLv2)
  • Arm B — ISI Elimination via Cross-Attention
  • Arms C and D — ICE and ICED
  • Parameter Count
  • Implementation
• Design Decisions
  • Why BiSSM for Channel Estimation?
  • Why 64-dimensional Bottleneck?
  • Why Adaptive τ Over log(n)?
  • Why Cross-Attention for Decoding?
  • Why Soft Pseudo-Labels in Decision Feedback?
  • Why a Gated Blend?
  • Why Share Weights Between Passes?