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Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Mohamed Seif , Malcolm Egan , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Empowered by deep learning, semantic communication marks a paradigm shift from transmitting raw data to conveying task-relevant meaning, enabling more efficient and intelligent wireless systems. In this study, we explore a deep…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Chenyang Wang , Roger Olsson , Stefan Forsström , Qing He

The preservation of privacy has emerged as a critical topic in the era of artificial intelligence. However, current work focuses on user-oriented privacy, overlooking severe enterprise data leakage risks exacerbated by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Zhihao Yao , Yuxuan Gu , Xiachong Feng , Weitao Ma , Bo Li , Xiaocheng Feng

In the forthcoming era of 6G, the mmWave communication is envisioned to be used in dense user scenarios with high bandwidth requirements, that necessitate efficient and accurate beam prediction. Machine learning (ML) based approaches are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Ghanta Sai Krishna , Kundrapu Supriya , Sanskar Singh , Sabur Baidya

Semantic communications seeks to transfer information from a source while conveying a desired meaning to its destination. We model the transmitter-receiver functionalities as an autoencoder followed by a task classifier that evaluates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

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, as a promising technology, has emerged to break through the Shannon limit, which is envisioned as the key enabler and fundamental paradigm for future 6G networks and applications, e.g., smart healthcare. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jiawen Kang , Hongyang Du , Zonghang Li , Zehui Xiong , Shiyao Ma , Dusit Niyato , Yuan Li

Semantic communication is implemented based on shared background knowledge, but the sharing mechanism risks privacy leakage. In this letter, we propose an encrypted semantic communication system (ESCS) for privacy preserving, which combines…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Xinlai Luo , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Feng Yang

From the perspective of information bottleneck (IB) theory, we propose a novel framework for performing black-box transferable adversarial attacks named IBTA, which leverages advancements in invariant features. Intuitively, diminishing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Biqing Qi , Junqi Gao , Jianxing Liu , Ligang Wu , Bowen Zhou

Driven by the interplay among artificial intelligence, digital twin, and wireless networks, 6G is envisaged to go beyond data-centric services to provide intelligent and immersive experiences. To efficiently support intelligent tasks with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Dingzhu Wen , Youlong Wu , Chunxiao Jiang , Khaled B. Letaief

Task-oriented semantic communication enhances transmission efficiency by conveying semantic information rather than exact messages. Deep learning (DL)-based semantic communication can effectively cultivate the essential semantic knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Run Gu , Wei Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Dusit Niyato , Aylin Yener

While semantic communication (SemCom) improves transmission efficiency by focusing on task-relevant information, it also raises critical privacy concerns. Many existing secure SemCom approaches rely on restrictive or impractical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang , Shuo Shao , Shunpu Tang , Zhiguo Shi , Shui Yu

Model inversion attacks are a type of privacy attack that reconstructs private data used to train a machine learning model, solely by accessing the model. Recently, white-box model inversion attacks leveraging Generative Adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Gyojin Han , Jaehyun Choi , Haeil Lee , Junmo Kim

Semantic communication is deemed as a revolution of Shannon's paradigm in the six-generation (6G) wireless networks. It aims at transmitting the extracted information rather than the original data, which receivers will try to recover.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Yang Li , Xinyu Zhou , Jun Zhao

With deployment of 6G technology, it is envisioned that competitive edge of wireless networks will be sustained and next decade's communication requirements will be stratified. Also 6G will aim to aid development of a human society which is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sridhar Iyer , Rajashri Khanai , Dattaprasad Torse , Rahul Jashvantbhai Pandya , Khaled Rabie , Krishna Pai , Wali Ullah Khan , Zubair Fadlullah

In the era of cloud computing and data-driven applications, it is crucial to protect sensitive information to maintain data privacy, ensuring truly reliable systems. As a result, preserving privacy in deep learning systems has become a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Fabian Perez , Jhon Lopez , Henry Arguello

Transcribed datasets typically contain speaker identity for each instance in the data. We investigate two ways to incorporate this information during training: Multi-Task Learning and Adversarial Learning. In multi-task learning, the goal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Yossi Adi , Neil Zeghidour , Ronan Collobert , Nicolas Usunier , Vitaliy Liptchinsky , Gabriel Synnaeve

In this paper, a novel covert semantic communication framework is investigated. Within this framework, a server extracts and transmits the semantic information, i.e., the meaning of image data, to a user over several time slots. An attacker…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenjing Zhang , Ye Hu , Tao Luo , Zhilong Zhang , Mingzhe Chen

Collaborative inference has been a promising solution to enable resource-constrained edge devices to perform inference using state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs). In collaborative inference, the edge device first feeds the input to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shiwei Ding , Lan Zhang , Miao Pan , Xiaoyong Yuan

This paper explores opportunities and challenges of task (goal)-oriented and semantic communications for next-generation (NextG) communication networks through the integration of multi-task learning. This approach employs deep neural…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus