Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may determine that a user equipment (UE) is to use a differential reporting mode based at least in part on a channel state information (CSI) report from the UE. The base station may transmit to the UE, signaling to cause the UE to use the differential reporting mode based at least in part on determining that the UE is to use the differential reporting mode. Numerous other aspects are provided.