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In this paper, we address the networking and communications problems of creating a digital copy in the Metaverse digital twin. Specifically, a virtual service provider (VSP) which is responsible for creating and rendering the Metaverse, is…

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In this letter, we envision a new metaverse communication paradigm for virtual avatar faces, and develop the semantic face compression with compact 3D facial descriptors. The fundamental principle is that the communication of virtual avatar…

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Motivated by applications such as college admission and insurance rate determination, we propose an evaluation problem where the inputs are controlled by strategic individuals who can modify their features at a cost. A learner can only…

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