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This paper presents Hyper-VIB, a hypernetwork-enhanced information bottleneck (IB) approach designed to enable efficient task-oriented communications in 6G collaborative intelligent systems. Leveraging IB theory, our approach enables an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jingchen Peng , Chaowen Deng , Yili Deng , Boxiang Ren , Lu Yang

Semantic communication is emerging as a key enabler for distributed edge intelligence due to its capability to convey task-relevant meaning. However, achieving communication-efficient training and robust inference over wireless links…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Hang Zhao , Hongru Li , Dongfang Xu , Shenghui Song , Khaled B. Letaief

In this article, we present a novel framework, named distributed task-oriented communication networks (DTCN), based on recent advances in multimodal semantic transmission and edge intelligence. In DTCN, the multimodal knowledge of semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Jie Guo , Hao Chen , Bin Song , Yuhao Chi , Chau Yuen , Fei Richard Yu , Geoffrey Ye Li , Dusit Niyato

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has empowered mobile devices (MDs) in supporting artificial intelligence (AI) applications through collaborative efforts with proximal MEC servers. Unfortunately, despite the great promise of device-edge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Wenhao Zhuang , Yuyi Mao

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

Given the fast growth of intelligent devices, it is expected that a large number of high-stake artificial intelligence (AI) applications, e.g., drones, autonomous cars, tactile robots, will be deployed at the edge of wireless networks in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Kai Yang , Yong Zhou , Zhanpeng Yang , Yuanming Shi

Whenever communication takes place to fulfil a goal, an effective way to encode the source data to be transmitted is to use an encoding rule that allows the receiver to meet the requirements of the goal. A formal way to identify the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-24 Francesco Pezone , Sergio Barbarossa , Paolo Di Lorenzo

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

The success of deep neural networks (DNNs) is heavily dependent on computational resources. While DNNs are often employed on cloud servers, there is a growing need to operate DNNs on edge devices. Edge devices are typically limited in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 May Malka , Erez Farhan , Hai Morgenstern , Nir Shlezinger

With the advent of emerging IoT applications such as autonomous driving, digital-twin and metaverse etc. featuring massive data sensing, analyzing and inference as well critical latency in beyond 5G (B5G) networks, edge artificial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Hong Xing , Guangxu Zhu , Dongzhu Liu , Haifeng Wen , Kaibin Huang , Kaishun Wu

In the Internet of Things (IoT) networks, edge learning for data-driven tasks provides intelligent applications and services. As the network size becomes large, different users may generate distinct datasets. Thus, to suit multiple edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Haihui Xie , Minghua Xia , Peiran Wu , Shuai Wang , H. Vincent Poor

This paper addresses the problem of end-to-end (E2E) design of learning and communication in a task-oriented semantic communication system. In particular, we consider a multi-device cooperative edge inference system over a wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Chang Cai , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

This paper proposes a communication-efficient, event-triggered inference framework for cooperative edge AI systems comprising multiple user devices and edge servers. Building upon dual-threshold early-exit strategies for rare-event…

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Mobile edge devices (e.g., AR/VR headsets) typically need to complete timely inference tasks while operating with limited on-board computing and energy resources. In this paper, we investigate the problem of collaborative inference in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fatemeh Zahra Safaeipour , Jacob Chakareski , Morteza Hashemi

Collaborative edge sensing systems, particularly in collaborative perception systems in autonomous driving, can significantly enhance tracking accuracy and reduce blind spots with multi-view sensing capabilities. However, their limited…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zhengru Fang , Senkang Hu , Liyan Yang , Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Yuguang Fang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) unifies wireless communication and sensing by sharing spectrum and hardware, which often incurs trade-offs between two functions due to limited resources. However, this paper shifts focus to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Mingjie Yang , Guangming Liang , Dongzhu Liu , Lei Zhang , Kaibin Huang

Representation learning is a widely adopted framework for learning in data-scarce environments, aiming to extract common features from related tasks. While centralized approaches have been extensively studied, decentralized methods remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Donghwa Kang , Shana Moothedath

Task-oriented communication focuses on extracting and transmitting only the information relevant to specific tasks, effectively minimizing communication overhead. Most existing methods prioritize reducing this overhead during inference,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Hongru Li , Hang Zhao , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Real-time intelligence applications in Internet of Things (IoT) environment depend on timely data communication. However, it is challenging to transmit and analyse massive data of various modalities. Recently proposed task-oriented…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shiqi Wang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

Collaborative inference systems are one of the emerging solutions for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) at the wireless network edge. Their main idea is to divide a DNN into two parts, where the first is shallow enough to be reliably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk