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Deep learning (DL) has shown great potential in revolutionizing the traditional communications system. Many applications in communications have adopted DL techniques due to their powerful representation ability. However, the learning-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Chenguang Liu , Yuxin Zhou , Yunfei Chen , Shuang-Hua Yang

This paper studies task-oriented, otherwise known as goal-oriented, communications, in a setting where a transmitter communicates with multiple receivers, each with its own task to complete on a dataset, e.g., images, available at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

Deep learning (DL) based semantic communication methods have been explored for the efficient transmission of images, text, and speech in recent years. In contrast to traditional wireless communication methods that focus on the transmission…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Tianxiao Han , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Shibo He , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper introduces a deep learning approach to dynamic spectrum access, leveraging the synergy of multi-modal image and spectrum data for the identification of potential transmitters. We consider an edge device equipped with a camera…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

The traditional communications transmit all the source data represented by bits, regardless of the content of source and the semantic information required by the receiver. However, in some applications, the receiver only needs part of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

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

Semantic communication focuses on transmitting task-relevant semantic information, aiming for intent-oriented communication. While existing systems improve efficiency by extracting key semantics, they still fail to deeply understand and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Peigen Ye , Jingpu Duan , Hongyang Du , Yulan Guo

Recently, deep learned enabled end-to-end (E2E) communication systems have been developed to merge all physical layer blocks in the traditional communication systems, which make joint transceiver optimization possible. Powered by deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li , Biing-Hwang Juang

Semantic communications utilize the transceiver computing resources to alleviate scarce transmission resources, such as bandwidth and energy. Although the conventional deep learning (DL) based designs may achieve certain transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Shuai Ma , Weining Qiao , Youlong Wu , Hang Li , Guangming Shi , Dahua Gao , Yuanming Shi , Shiyin Li , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Semantic communications are expected to enable the more effective delivery of meaning rather than a precise transfer of symbols. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep neural network-based architecture for image transmission and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Hanju Yoo , Taehun Jung , Linglong Dai , Songkuk Kim , Chan-Byoung Chae

Multi-node communication, which refers to the interaction among multiple devices, has attracted lots of attention in many Internet-of-Things (IoT) scenarios. However, its huge amounts of data flows and inflexibility for task extension have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Bingyan Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wenjun Zhang

Semantic communication is focused on optimizing the exchange of information by transmitting only the most relevant data required to convey the intended message to the receiver and achieve the desired communication goal. For example, if we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Fatemeh Zahra Safaeipour , Morteza Hashemi

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are capable of precisely extracting high-level semantic information from multi-modal data, enabling multi-task understanding and generation. This capability facilitates more efficient and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Feibo Jiang , Siwei Tu , Li Dong , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan

Semantic communication, notable for ensuring quality of service by jointly optimizing source and channel coding, effectively extracts data semantics, reduces transmission length, and mitigates channel noise. However, most studies overlook…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Loc X. Nguyen , Kitae Kim , Ye Lin Tun , Sheikh Salman Hassan , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Semantic communication enhances transmission efficiency by conveying semantic information rather than raw input symbol sequences. Task-oriented semantic communication is a variant that tries to retains only task-specific information, thus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Xuesong Wang , Mo Li , Xingyan Shi , Zhaoqian Liu , Shenghao Yang

Many visual scenes contain text that carries crucial information, and it is thus essential to understand text in images for downstream reasoning tasks. For example, a deep water label on a warning sign warns people about the danger in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Ronghang Hu , Amanpreet Singh , Trevor Darrell , Marcus Rohrbach

Task-oriented semantic communication is an emerging technology that transmits only the relevant semantics of a message instead of the whole message to achieve a specific task. It reduces latency, compresses the data, and is more robust in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Eslam Eldeeb , Mohammad Shehab , Hirley Alves

The transformer structure employed in large language models (LLMs), as a specialized category of deep neural networks (DNNs) featuring attention mechanisms, stands out for their ability to identify and highlight the most relevant aspects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Matin Mortaheb , Erciyes Karakaya , Mohammad A. Amir Khojastepour , Sennur Ulukus

The rapid development of deep learning (DL) and widespread applications of Internet-of-Things (IoT) have made the devices smarter than before, and enabled them to perform more intelligent tasks. However, it is challenging for any IoT device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin

6G networks promise revolutionary immersive communication experiences including augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and holographic communications. These applications demand high-dimensional multimodal data transmission and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yusong Zhang , Yuxuan Sun , Lei Guo , Wei Chen , Bo Ai , Deniz Gunduz