ICML2026

Robust Signal Enhancement via Fractional Detail Views and Knowledge Guided Multi-view Fusion

Zikun Jin, Yuhua Qian, Xinyan Liang, Jiaqian Zhang, Haijun Geng

Abstract

Robust signal enhancement at low SNR is fundamentally challenging because noise becomes strongly entangled with the signal and corrupts local time–frequency (TF) evidence. In this regime, fixed resolution short time Fourier transform (STFT) enhancement with purely data driven convolutional biases can become overconfident in unreliable TF regions, causing unstable suppression or residual artifacts. We propose FracKGMF, which couples Fractional Distance Decay Convolution (FracConv) with Knowledge Guided Multi-view Fusion (KGMF) for expressive TF modeling and reliability aware decisions under heavy corruption. FracConv introduces a lightweight fractional distance decay family that reshapes local interactions into long tailed receptive patterns, enabling aggregation of weak but globally consistent cues when per-bin observations are ambiguous. KGMF uses a wiener inspired reliability prior to calibrate multi-view fusion and reduce excessive suppression in uncertain regions. Experiments on speech and EM benchmarks show consistent improvements over state-of-the-art baselines, with particularly large gains under extremely low SNR, including a 33 dB average improvement on EM signals at -20 dB.