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Multi-task learning (MTL) is an important subject in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Its applications to computer vision, signal processing, and speech recognition are ubiquitous. Although this subject has attracted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Weizhu Qian , Bowei Chen , Yichao Zhang , Guanghui Wen , Franck Gechter

This paper presents an adaptive framework for edge inference based on a dynamically configurable transformer-powered deep joint source channel coding (DJSCC) architecture. Motivated by a practical scenario where a resource constrained edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Alessio Devoto , Jary Pomponi , Mattia Merluzzi , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Simone Scardapane

As a paradigm shift towards pervasive intelligence, semantic communication (SemCom) has shown great potentials to improve communication efficiency and provide user-centric services by delivering task-oriented semantic meanings. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Hao Wei , Wen Wang , Wanli Ni , Wenjun Xu , Yongming Huang , Dusit Niyato , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication has been identified as a core technology for the sixth generation (6G) of wireless networks. Recently, task-oriented semantic communications have been proposed for low-latency inference with limited bandwidth.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yanhu Wang , Shuaishuai Guo , Yiqin Deng , Haixia Zhang , Yuguang Fang

Semantic communications for multi-modal data can transmit task-relevant information efficiently over noisy and bandwidth-limited channels. However, a key challenge is to simultaneously compress inter-modal redundancy and improve semantic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Jingwen Fu , Ming Xiao , Zhonghao Lyu , Mikael Skoglund , Celimuge Wu

Information Bottleneck (IB) is a widely used framework that enables the extraction of information related to a target random variable from a source random variable. In the objective function, IB controls the trade-off between data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Sota Kudo , Naoaki Ono , Shigehiko Kanaya , Ming Huang

We propose a communication-efficient collaborative inference framework in the domain of edge inference, focusing on the efficient use of vision transformer (ViT) models. The partitioning strategy of conventional collaborative inference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Jiwoong Im , Nayoung Kwon , Taewoo Park , Jiheon Woo , Jaeho Lee , Yongjune Kim

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with the Internet of Things (IoT) enables task-oriented communication for multi-edge cooperative inference system, where edge devices transmit extracted features of local sensory data to an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Dongwon Kim , Jiwan Seo , Joonhyuk Kang

With the proliferation of edge computing, efficient AI inference on edge devices has become essential for intelligent applications such as autonomous vehicles and VR/AR. In this context, we address the problem of efficient remote object…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Xiangyu Gao , Yaping Sun , Dongyu Wei , Xiaodong Xu , Hao Chen , Hao Yin , Shuguang Cui

By extracting task-relevant information while maximally compressing the input, the information bottleneck (IB) principle has provided a guideline for learning effective and robust representations of the target inference. However, extending…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yuhan Wang , Youlong Wu , Shuai Ma , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Joint source and channel coding (JSCC) for image transmission has attracted increasing attention due to its robustness and high efficiency. However, the existing deep JSCC research mainly focuses on minimizing the distortion between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Lunan Sun , Yang Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Caili Guo , Walid Saad , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the problem of the limited-bandwidth communication for multi-agent reinforcement learning, where agents cooperate with the assistance of a communication protocol and a scheduler. The protocol and scheduler jointly determine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Rundong Wang , Xu He , Runsheng Yu , Wei Qiu , Bo An , Zinovi Rabinovich

Task-oriented semantic communication enhances transmission efficiency by conveying semantic information rather than exact messages. Deep learning (DL)-based semantic communication can effectively cultivate the essential semantic knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Run Gu , Wei Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Dusit Niyato , Aylin Yener

When presented with a data stream of two statistically dependent variables, predicting the future of one of the variables (the target stream) can benefit from information about both its history and the history of the other variable (the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Damjan Kalajdzievski , Ximeng Mao , Pascal Fortier-Poisson , Guillaume Lajoie , Blake Richards

This paper studies a new multi-device edge artificial-intelligent (AI) system, which jointly exploits the AI model split inference and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) to enable low-latency intelligent services at the network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Dingzhu Wen , Peixi Liu , Guangxu Zhu , Yuanming Shi , Jie Xu , Yonina C. Eldar , Shuguang Cui

We propose a novel information bottleneck (IB) method named Drop-Bottleneck, which discretely drops features that are irrelevant to the target variable. Drop-Bottleneck not only enjoys a simple and tractable compression objective but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Jaekyeom Kim , Minjung Kim , Dongyeon Woo , Gunhee Kim

In the realm of neural network models, the perpetual challenge remains in retaining task-relevant information while effectively discarding redundant data during propagation. In this paper, we introduce IB-AdCSCNet, a deep learning model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 He Zou , Meng'en Qin , Yu Song , Xiaohui Yang

Split learning is a privacy-preserving distributed learning paradigm in which an ML model (e.g., a neural network) is split into two parts (i.e., an encoder and a decoder). The encoder shares so-called latent representation, rather than raw…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Omar Alhussein , Moshi Wei , Arashmid Akhavain

Multi-agent reinforcement learning systems deployed in real-world robotics applications face severe communication constraints that significantly impact coordination effectiveness. We present a framework that combines information bottleneck…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ahmad Farooq , Kamran Iqbal

Information bottleneck is an information-theoretic principle of representation learning that aims to learn a maximally compressed representation that preserves as much information about labels as possible. Under this principle, two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yuyan Ni , Yanyan Lan , Ao Liu , Zhiming Ma