Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a configuration for processing a data block into an unencoded uplink signal. The UE may determine pre-equalization parameters corresponding to the unencoded uplink signal based on the indication of the configuration. The UE may apply analog modulation and the pre-equalization parameters to the data block to form the unencoded uplink signal and transmit the unencoded uplink signal on overlapping time-frequency resources with one or more other UEs according to an over the air computation operation. The UE may determine a plurality of channel inversion coefficients based on the indication of the configuration for processing the data block into the unencoded uplink signal, measuring one or more reference signals, receiving an indication of an inversion granularity, receiving an inversion coefficient power threshold, or any combination thereof.