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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 communication is envisioned as a promising technique to break through the Shannon limit. However, the existing semantic communication frameworks do not involve inference and error correction, which limits the achievable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Fuhui Zhou , Yihao Li , Xinyuan Zhang , Qihui Wu , Xianfu Lei , Rose Qingyang Hu

Semantic communication is poised to play a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of future AI-driven communication systems. Its challenge of extracting semantic information from the original complex content and regenerating semantically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Eleonora Grassucci , Yuki Mitsufuji , Ping Zhang , Danilo Comminiello

Recently, semantic communication has been investigated to boost the performance of end-to-end image transmission systems. However, existing semantic approaches are generally based on deep learning and belong to lossy transmission.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-23 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

Semantic- and task-oriented communication has emerged as a promising approach to reducing the latency and bandwidth requirements of next-generation mobile networks by transmitting only the most relevant information needed to complete a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Deniz Gündüz , Michèle A. Wigger , Tze-Yang Tung , Ping Zhang , Yong Xiao

We present our vision for a departure from the established way of architecting and assessing communication networks, by incorporating the semantics of information for communications and control in networked systems. We define semantics of…

A joint communication and channel state estimation problem is investigated, in which reliable information transmission over a noisy channel, and high-fidelity estimation of the channel state, are simultaneously sought. The tradeoff between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-09 Wenyi Zhang , Satish Vedantam , Urbashi Mitra

Semantic communication (SemCom) has been recently deemed a promising next-generation wireless technique to enable efficient spectrum savings and information exchanges, thus naturally introducing a novel and practical network paradigm where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Le Xia , Yao Sun , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu , Dusit Niyato , Muhammad Ali Imran

Semantic communications will play a critical role in enabling goal-oriented services over next-generation wireless systems. However, most prior art in this domain is restricted to specific applications (e.g., text or image), and it does not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mohammad Karimzadeh Farshbafan , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah

Recently, the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth in multi-modal communication systems requires a paradigm shift. Powered by deep learning, semantic communications are applied to multi-modal scenarios to boost communication efficiency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Yangshuo He , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai

Semantic communication is considered the future of mobile communication, which aims to transmit data beyond Shannon's theorem of communications by transmitting the semantic meaning of the data rather than the bit-by-bit reconstruction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Maheshi Lokumarambage , Vishnu Gowrisetty , Hossein Rezaei , Thushan Sivalingam , Nandana Rajatheva , Anil Fernando

Semantic communication allows the receiver to know the intention instead of the bit information itself, which is an emerging technique to support real-time human-machine and machine-to-machine interactions for future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Gaolei Li , Yang Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

Each generation of cellular networks is characterized by its distinct capabilities and innovations, which reflect the significant milestones reached with each new release. 5G has made substantial progress through the deployment of advanced…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Gabriella Fernandes , Hélder Fontes , Rui Campos

Semantic communications focus on prioritizing the understanding of the meaning behind transmitted data and ensuring the successful completion of tasks that motivate the exchange of information. However, when devices rely on different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mario Edoardo Pandolfo , Simone Fiorellino , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Paolo Di Lorenzo

We consider the problem of joint source-channel coding for semantic communication from a rateless perspective, the purpose of which is to settle the balance between reliability (distortion/perception) and effectiveness (rate) of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Cheng Peng , Rulong Wang , Yong Xiao

This paper addresses the challenge of integrating semantic communication principles into operated networks, traditionally optimized based on network-centric metrics rather than application-specific needs. Operated networks strongly adhere…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Quentin Lampin , Louis-Adrien Dufrène , Guillaume Larue

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

With the recent advancements in edge artificial intelligence (AI), future sixth-generation (6G) networks need to support new AI tasks such as classification and clustering apart from data recovery. Motivated by the success of deep learning,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Zhonghao Lyu , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu , Bo Ai , Shuguang Cui

While semantic communication succeeds in efficiently transmitting due to the strong capability to extract the essential semantic information, it is still far from the intelligent or human-like communications. In this paper, we introduce an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Recent advances in deep learning have led to increased interest in solving high-efficiency end-to-end transmission problems using methods that employ the nonlinear property of neural networks. These techniques, we call neural joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Xiaoqi Qin , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang