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Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation networks. However, its typical end-to-end joint source--channel coding (JSCC) architecture also raises serious privacy concerns. To guide future secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen , Xuemin Shen

As semantic communication (SemCom) attracts growing attention as a novel communication paradigm, ensuring the security of transmitted semantic information over open wireless channels has become a critical issue. However, traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang , Shuo Shao , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen , Xuemin , Shen

Semantic communication, enabled by deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC), is widely expected to inherit the vulnerability of deep learning to adversarial perturbations. This paper challenges this prevailing belief and reveals a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Runxin Zhang , Yulin Shao , Hongyu An , Zhijin Qin , Kaibin Huang

We present a framework to learn privacy-preserving encodings of images that inhibit inference of chosen private attributes, while allowing recovery of other desirable information. Rather than simply inhibiting a given fixed pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Francesco Pittaluga , Sanjeev J. Koppal , Ayan Chakrabarti

Semantic communication (SemCom) is regarded as a promising and revolutionary technology in 6G, aiming to transcend the constraints of ``Shannon's trap" by filtering out redundant information and extracting the core of effective data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Rui Meng , Song Gao , Dayu Fan , Haixiao Gao , Yining Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Bizhu Wang , Suyu Lv , Zhidi Zhang , Mengying Sun , Shujun Han , Chen Dong , Xiaofeng Tao , Ping Zhang

Secure communication is essential in covert and safety-critical settings where verbal interactions may expose user intent or operational context. Wearable gesture-based communication enables low-effort, nonverbal interaction, but existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tasnia Ashrafi Heya , Sayed Erfan Arefin

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm that focuses on recognizing and delivering the desired meaning of messages to the destination users. Most existing works in this area focus on delivering explicit semantics, labels or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Zhimin Lu , Yong Xiao , Zijian Sun , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , Xianfu Chen , Mehdi Bennis , H. Vincent Poor

Semantic communication has emerged as a pillar for the next generation of communication systems due to its capabilities in alleviating data redundancy. Most semantic communication systems are built upon advanced deep learning models whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Loc X. Nguyen , Huy Q. Le , Ye Lin Tun , Pyae Sone Aung , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Semantic communication (SemCom) improves transmission efficiency by focusing on task-relevant information. However, transmitting semantic-rich data over insecure channels introduces privacy risks. This paper proposes a novel SemCom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Weixuan Chen , Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Dusit Niyato

Scientific collaborations benefit from collaborative learning of distributed sources, but remain difficult to achieve when data are sensitive. In recent years, privacy preserving techniques have been widely studied to analyze distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Guanhong Miao , A. Adam Ding , Samuel S. Wu

Learning-task oriented semantic communication is pivotal in optimizing transmission efficiency by extracting and conveying essential semantics tailored to specific tasks, such as image reconstruction and classification. Nevertheless, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Lingyi Wang , Wei Wu , Fuhui Zhou , Zhijin Qin , Qihui Wu

The increasing adoption of Cloud-based Large Language Models (CLLMs) has raised significant concerns regarding data privacy during user interactions. While existing approaches primarily focus on encrypting sensitive information, they often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Dong Chen , Tong Yang , Feipeng Zhai , Pengpeng Ouyang , Qidong Liu , Yafei Li , Chong Fu , Mingliang Xu

Semantic communication (SemCom), as a typical paradigm of deep integration between artificial intelligence (AI) and communication technology, significantly improves communication efficiency and resource utilization efficiency. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Zhidi Zhang , Rui Meng , Song Gao , Haixiao Gao , Xiaodong Xu

Semantic communication is of crucial importance for the next-generation wireless communication networks. The existing works have developed semantic communication frameworks based on deep learning. However, systems powered by deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuan Zhou , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

In the area of natural language processing, deep learning models are recently known to be vulnerable to various types of adversarial perturbations, but relatively few works are done on the defense side. Especially, there exists few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Xiaosen Wang , Hao Jin , Yichen Yang , Kun He

Steganography refers to the art of concealing secret messages within multiple media carriers so that an eavesdropper is unable to detect the presence and content of the hidden messages. In this paper, we firstly propose a novel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Zheng Li , Ge Han , Yunqing Wei , Shanqing Guo

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

Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are widely adopted due to their efficiency and portability; however, their decoding algorithms still face multiple challenges, including inadequate generalization,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Tianwang Jia , Xiaoqing Chen , Dongrui Wu

We consider a semantic communication system for speech signals, named DeepSC-S. Motivated by the breakthroughs in deep learning (DL), we make an effort to recover the transmitted speech signals in the semantic communication systems, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

This paper highlights vulnerabilities of deep learning-driven semantic communications to backdoor (Trojan) attacks. Semantic communications aims to convey a desired meaning while transferring information from a transmitter to its receiver.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener