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The sixth-generation mobile communication system proposes the vision of smart interconnection of everything, which requires accomplishing communication tasks while ensuring the performance of intelligent tasks. A joint source-channel coding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Qizheng Sun , Caili Guo , Yang Yang , Jiujiu Chen , Rui Tang , Chuanhong Liu

Modern communications are usually designed to pursue a higher bit-level precision and fewer bits while transmitting a message. This article rethinks these two major features and introduces the concept and advantage of semantics that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Kun Lu , Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Xianfu Chen , Jianjun Wu , Honggang Zhang

This paper develops an edge-device collaborative Generative Semantic Communications (Gen SemCom) framework leveraging pre-trained Multi-modal/Vision Language Models (M/VLMs) for ultra-low-rate semantic communication via textual prompts. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Mengmeng Ren , Li Qiao , Long Yang , Zhen Gao , Jian Chen , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli , Mehdi Bennis

Sentence encoders, which produce sentence embeddings using neural networks, are typically evaluated by how well they transfer to downstream tasks. This includes semantic similarity, an important task in natural language understanding.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Li Zhang , Steven R. Wilson , Rada Mihalcea

Token Communication (TokenCom) is a new paradigm, motivated by the recent success of Large AI Models (LAMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), where tokens serve as unified units of communication and computation, enabling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jingxuan Men , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Ning Wang , Yi Ma , Mike Nilsson , Rahim Tafazolli

In this paper, we propose a robust semantic communication system for speech transmission, named Ross-S2T, by delivering the essential semantic information. Specifically, we consider the speech-to-text translation (S2TT) as the transmission…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Token communication has emerged as a promising framework for efficient wireless transmission by representing source data as compact semantic tokens. However, transmitting full semantic tokens still incurs considerable communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang

In this paper, we propose a high-efficiency deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) method for video transmission based on conditional coding with asymmetric context. The conditional coding-based neural video compression requires to predict…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Xuechen Chen , Junting Li , Chuang Chen , Hairong Lin , Yishen Li

This paper proposes a transformer over transformer framework, called Transformer$^2$, to perform neural text segmentation. It consists of two components: bottom-level sentence encoders using pre-trained transformers, and an upper-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Kelvin Lo , Yuan Jin , Weicong Tan , Ming Liu , Lan Du , Wray Buntine

The burgeoning generative artificial intelligence technology offers novel insights into the development of semantic communication (SemCom) frameworks. These frameworks hold the potential to address the challenges associated with the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Hongyang Du , Yanli Yuan , Tony Q. S. Quek

Deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) has shown promise in wireless transmission of text, speech, and images within the realm of semantic communication. However, wireless video transmission presents greater challenges due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Xinyi Zhou , Danlan Huang , Zhixin Qi , Liang Zhang , Ting Jiang

Tokenization plays a critical role in language modeling, yet existing approaches such as Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) or WordPiece operate purely on frequency statistics, ignoring the underlying semantic structure of text. This leads to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Dong Liu , Yanxuan Yu

Generative foundation models can revolutionize the design of semantic communication (SemCom) systems allowing high fidelity exchange of semantic information at ultra low rates. In this work, a generative SemCom framework with pretrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Chunmei Xu , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli , Jiangzhou Wang

Task-Oriented Semantic Communication (TOSC) has been regarded as a promising communication framework, serving for various Artificial Intelligence (AI) task driven applications. The existing TOSC frameworks focus on extracting the full…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Yuzhou Fu , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Liuguo Yin , Wei Zhang

Recent advances in methods focused on the grounding problem have resulted in techniques that can be used to construct a symbolic language associated with a specific domain. Inspired by how humans communicate complex ideas through language,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Alberto Santamaria-Pang , James Kubricht , Aritra Chowdhury , Chitresh Bhushan , Peter Tu

Semantic communication (SemCom) aims to convey the intended meaning of messages rather than merely transmitting bits, thereby offering greater efficiency and robustness, particularly in resource-constrained or noisy environments. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chengyang Liang , Dong Li

We introduce two pre-trained retrieval focused multilingual sentence encoding models, respectively based on the Transformer and CNN model architectures. The models embed text from 16 languages into a single semantic space using a multi-task…

We propose a novel neural waveform compression method to catalyze emerging speech semantic communications. By introducing nonlinear transform and variational modeling, we effectively capture the dependencies within speech frames and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Shengshi Yao , Zixuan Xiao , Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

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

Traditional sentence embedding models encode sentences into vector representations to capture useful properties such as the semantic similarity between sentences. However, in addition to similarity, sentence semantics can also be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 James Y. Huang , Wenlin Yao , Kaiqiang Song , Hongming Zhang , Muhao Chen , Dong Yu