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Semantic communication, emerging as a promising paradigm for data transmission, offers an innovative departure from the constraints of Shannon theory, heralding significant advancements in future communication technologies. Despite the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jinho Choi , Jihong Park , Eleonora Grassucci , Danilo Comminiello

In this paper, a pragmatic semantic communication framework that enables effective goal-oriented information sharing between two-intelligent agents is proposed. In particular, semantics is defined as the causal state that encapsulates the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Walid Saad

Semantic communication is an emerging paradigm that focuses on understanding and delivering semantics, or meaning of messages. Most existing semantic communication solutions define semantic meaning as the meaning of object labels recognized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Jingming Liang , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , Mehdi Bennis

As our world grows increasingly connected and new technologies arise, global demands for data traffic continue to rise exponentially. Limited by the fundamental results of information theory, to meet these demands we are forced to either…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Dylan Wheeler , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

The neural architectures of language models are becoming increasingly complex, especially that of Transformers, based on the attention mechanism. Although their application to numerous natural language processing tasks has proven to be very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Pablo Gamallo

Semantic communication is regarded as the breakthrough beyond the Shannon paradigm, which transmits only semantic information to significantly improve communication efficiency. This article introduces a framework for generalized semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Zhijin Qin , Feifei Gao , Bo Lin , Xiaoming Tao , Guangyi Liu , Chengkang Pan

We propose semantic communication over wireless channels for various modalities, e.g., text and images, in a task-oriented communications setup where the task is classification. We present two approaches based on memory and learning. Both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Emrecan Kutay , Aylin Yener

Semantic communication (SC) is recognized as a promising approach for enabling reliable communication with minimal data transfer while maintaining seamless connectivity for a group of wireless users. Unlocking the advantages of SC for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Nitisha Singh , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

This paper explores the concept of information importance in multi-modal task-oriented semantic communication systems, emphasizing the need for high accuracy and efficiency to fulfill task-specific objectives. At the transmitter, generative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Yi Ma , Chunmei Xu , Zhenyu Liu , Siqi Zhang , Rahim Tafazolli

Semantic parsing is the task of translating natural language utterances into machine-readable meaning representations. Currently, most semantic parsing methods are not able to utilize contextual information (e.g. dialogue and comments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Zhuang Li , Lizhen Qu , Gholamreza Haffari

Semantic communication has become a popular research area due its high spectrum efficiency and error-correction performance. Some studies use deep learning to extract semantic features, which usually form end-to-end semantic communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

This work presents a novel semantic transmission framework in wireless networks, leveraging the joint processing technique. Our framework enables multiple cooperating base stations to efficiently transmit semantic information to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Xumin Pu , Tiantian Lei , Wanli Wen , Qianbin Chen

Transfer learning aims at building robust prediction models by transferring knowledge gained from one problem to another. In the semantic Web, learning tasks are enhanced with semantic representations. We exploit their semantics to augment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Freddy Lecue , Jiaoyan Chen , Jeff Z. Pan , Huajun Chen

When artificial agents are jointly trained to perform collaborative tasks using a communication channel, they develop opaque goal-oriented communication protocols. Good task performance is often considered sufficient evidence that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Rotem Ben Zion , Boaz Carmeli , Orr Paradise , Yonatan Belinkov

Semantic communications, aiming at ensuring the successful delivery of the meaning of information, are expected to be one of the potential techniques for the next generation communications. However, the knowledge forming and synchronizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yuan Zheng , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Miao Pan , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising technology for enhancing communication efficiency. However, most existing research emphasizes single-task reconstruction, neglecting model adaptability and generalization across multi-task…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Weiwen Yuan , Jinke Ren , Chongjie Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Jun Wei , Dong In Kim , Shuguang Cui

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation networks, yet several fundamental challenges remain unresolved. Building on the probabilistic model of semantic communication and leveraging the concept of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Javad Gholipour , Rafael F. Schaefer , Gerhard P. Fettweis

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm which draws inspiration from human communication focusing on the delivery of the meaning of a message to the intended users. It has attracted significant interest recently due to its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , H. Vincent Poor

Semantic communications is considered as a promising technology to increase the efficiency of next-generation communication systems, particularly targeting human-machine and machine-type communications. In contrast to the source-agnostic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jialong Xu , Tze-Yang Tung , Bo Ai , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Deniz Gunduz

Semantic communications focus on the transmission of semantic features. In this letter, we consider a task-oriented multi-user semantic communication system for multimodal data transmission. Particularly, partial users transmit images while…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li