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Semantic communication (SemCom) is emerging as a key technology for future sixth-generation (6G) systems. Unlike traditional bit-level communication (BitCom), SemCom directly optimizes performance at the semantic level, leading to superior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Maojun Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Richeng Jin , Xiaoming Chen , Qingjiang Shi , Caijun Zhong , Kaibin Huang

Semantic communication is emerging as a key paradigm for 6G networks, where the goal is not to perfectly reconstruct bits but to preserve the meaning that matters for a given task. This shift can improve bandwidth efficiency, robustness,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tuğçe Bilen , Ian F. Akyildiz

The sixth-generation (6G) mobile network is envisioned to incorporate sensing and edge artificial intelligence (AI) as two key functions. Their natural convergence leads to the emergence of Integrated Sensing and Edge AI (ISEA), a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhiyan Liu , Kaibin Huang

Semantic communications are expected to become the core new paradigms of the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. Most existing works implicitly utilize channel information for codecs training, which leads to poor communications when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Lan Lin , Wenjun Xu , Fengyu Wang , Yimeng Zhang , Wei Zhang , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm that leverages Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to extract task-relevant information, thereby substantially reducing the volume of transmitted data. In existing implementations,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xingqiu He , Chaoqun You , Zihan Chen , Yao Sun , Dongzhu Liu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Yue Gao

Multi-agent cooperative perception (CP) promises to overcome the inherent occlusion and range limitations of single-agent systems in autonomous driving, yet its practicality is severely constrained by limited Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Chenyi Wang , Zhaowei Li , Ming F. Li , Wujie Wen

Large-scale transformer models have emerged as a powerful tool for semantic communication systems, enabling edge devices to extract rich representations for robust inference across noisy wireless channels. However, their substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Omar Erak , Omar Alhussein , Hatem Abou-Zeid , Mehdi Bennis

Transformer-based large language models exhibit groundbreaking capabilities, but their storage and computational costs are prohibitively high, limiting their application in resource-constrained scenarios. An effective approach is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jing Zhang , Shuzhen Sun , Peng Zhang , Guangxing Cao , Hui Gao , Xindian Ma , Nan Xu , Yuexian Hou

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 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

Semantic communications (SemCom) have emerged as a new paradigm for supporting sixth-generation applications, where semantic features of data are transmitted using artificial intelligence algorithms to attain high communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Jianhao Huang , Kai Yuan , Chuan Huang , Kaibin Huang

Learning-based semantic communication (SemCom) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for improving the transmission efficiency of wireless networks. However, existing methods typically rely on extensive end-to-end training, which is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Jihong Park , Zhaoyang Zhang , Kaibin Huang , Deniz Gunduz

Semantic communication can significantly improve bandwidth utilization in wireless systems by exploiting the meaning behind raw data. However, the advancements achieved through semantic communication are closely dependent on the development…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Loc X. Nguyen , Ji Su Yoon , Huy Q. Le , Yu Qiao , Avi Deb Raha , Eui-Nam Huh , Walid Saad , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

In this paper, we investigate a joint source-channel encoding (JSCE) scheme in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multi-user semantic communication system. Semantic encoding not only compresses redundant information, but also…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Haidong Wang , Songhan Zhao , Lanhua Li , Bo Gu , Jing Xu , Shimin Gong , Jiawen Kang

In this work, a self-attention based conditional generative adversarial network (SA-cGAN) framework for the sixth generation (6G) semantic communication system is proposed, explicitly designed to balance the trade-off between distortion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Faizan Shafi , Rahul Jashvantbhai Pandya , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Sridhar Iyer

Effective task-oriented semantic communications relies on perfect knowledge alignment between transmitters and receivers for accurate recovery of task-related semantic information, which can be susceptible to knowledge misalignment and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Hong Chen , Fang Fang , Xianbin Wang

The emergence of the metaverse has boosted productivity and creativity, driving real-time updates and personalized content, which will substantially increase data traffic. However, current bit-oriented communication networks struggle to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Zhe Wang , Nan Li , Yansha Deng , A. Hamid Aghvami

Neural network-based compression and decompression of channel state feedback has been one of the most widely studied applications of machine learning (ML) in wireless networks. Various simulation-based studies have shown that ML-based…

Large-scale deep learning models impose substantial communication overh ead in distributed training, particularly in bandwidth-constrained or heterogeneous clo ud-edge environments. Conventional synchronous or fixed-compression techniques o…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yi Yang , Ziyu Lin , Liesheng Wei

Semantic communications are expected to improve the transmission efficiency in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. However, the distributed nature of networks and heterogeneity of devices challenge the secure utilization of semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Weihao Zeng , Xinyu Xu , Qianyun Zhang , Jiting Shi , Zhenyu Guan , Shufeng Li , Zhijin Qin