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As a paradigm shift towards pervasive intelligence, semantic communication (SemCom) has shown great potentials to improve communication efficiency and provide user-centric services by delivering task-oriented semantic meanings. However, the…

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Large model has emerged as a key enabler for the popularity of future networked intelligent applications. However, the surge of data traffic brought by intelligent applications puts pressure on the resource utilization and energy…

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The growing demands of artificial intelligence and immersive media require communication beyond bit-level accuracy to meaning awareness. Conventional optical systems that focused on syntactic precision suffer significant inefficiencies.…

This letter proposes a novel relaying framework, semantic-forward (SF), for cooperative communications towards the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. The SF relay extracts and transmits the semantic features, which reduces forwarding…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Wensheng Lin , Yuna Yan , Lixin Li , Zhu Han , Tad Matsumoto

In this paper, a pragmatic semantic communication framework that enables effective goal-oriented information sharing between two-intelligent agents is proposed. In particular, semantics is defined as the causal state that encapsulates the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Walid Saad

Semantic communication (SemCom) with learned encoder-decoder architectures enables end-to-end learning of compact task-oriented representations optimized for the wireless channel, reducing channel resources needed to convey task-relevant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek

Semantic communication, an intelligent communication paradigm that aims to transmit useful information in the semantic domain, is facilitated by deep learning techniques. Robust semantic features can be learned and transmitted in an analog…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 Lei Guo , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Bo Ai

Semantic signal processing and communications are poised to play a central part in developing the next generation of sensor devices and networks. A crucial component of a semantic system is the extraction of semantic signals from the raw…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Mert Kalfa , Sadik Yagiz Yetim , Arda Atalik , Mehmetcan Gok , Yiqun Ge , Rong Li , Wen Tong , Tolga Mete Duman , Orhan Arikan

Semantic communications are considered a promising beyond-Shannon/bit paradigm to reduce network traffic and increase reliability, thus making wireless networks more energy efficient, robust, and sustainable. However, the performance is…

In the ensuing ultra-dense and diverse environment in future \ac{6G} communication networks, it will be critical to optimize network resources via mechanisms that recognize and cater to the diversity, density, and dynamicity of system…

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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

Machine learning (ML) is a promising enabler for the fifth generation (5G) communication systems and beyond. By imbuing intelligence into the network edge, edge nodes can proactively carry out decision-making, and thereby react to local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Jihong Park , Sumudu Samarakoon , Anis Elgabli , Joongheon Kim , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim , Mérouane Debbah

The growing demand for efficient semantic communication systems capable of managing diverse tasks and adapting to fluctuating channel conditions has driven the development of robust, resource-efficient frameworks. This article introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Xiang Chen , Shuying Gan , Chenyuan Feng , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Semantic communication is emerging as a promising paradigm that focuses on the extraction and transmission of semantic meanings using deep learning techniques. While current research primarily addresses the reduction of semantic…

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This paper investigates the secure resource allocation for a downlink integrated sensing and communication system with multiple legal users and potential eavesdroppers. In the considered model, the base station (BS) simultaneously transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yinchao Yang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Wei Xu , Zhaoyang Zhang

With the development of deep learning (DL), natural language processing (NLP) makes it possible for us to analyze and understand a large amount of language texts. Accordingly, we can achieve a semantic communication in terms of joint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Chenghui Peng , Honggang Zhang

To improve communication efficiency and provide more useful information, we need to measure semantic information by combining inaccuracy or distortion, freshness, purposiveness, and efficiency. The author proposed the semantic information G…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Chenguang Lu

Semantic communication, leveraging advanced deep learning techniques, emerges as a new paradigm that meets the requirements of next-generation wireless networks. However, current semantic communication systems, which employ neural coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Hai-Long Qin , Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Xiaoqi Qin , Shuo Shao , Kai Niu , Wenjun Xu , Ping Zhang

Despite the fact that Shannon and Weaver's Mathematical Theory of Communication was published over 70 years ago, all communication systems continue to operate at the first of three levels defined in this theory: the technical level. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Dylan Wheeler , Erin E. Tripp , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

Recently, semantic communications have drawn great attention as the groundbreaking concept surpasses the limited capacity of Shannon's theory. Specifically, semantic communications probably become crucial in realizing visual tasks that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Jeonghun Park , Sung Whan Yoon