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Task-oriented communication presents a promising approach to improve the communication efficiency of edge inference systems by optimizing learning-based modules to extract and transmit relevant task information. However, real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Songjie Xie , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Task-oriented communications, mostly using learning-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC), aim to design a communication-efficient edge inference system by transmitting task-relevant information to the receiver. However, only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Songjie Xie , Shuai Ma , Ming Ding , Yuanming Shi , Mingjian Tang , Youlong Wu

This paper considers a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system with low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). In this system, we propose a novel communication framework that is inspired by supervised learning. The key idea of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Yo-Seb Jeon , Song-Nam Hong , Namyoon Lee

Edge robotics involves frequent exchanges of large-volume multi-modal data. Existing methods ignore the interdependency between robotic functionalities and communication conditions, leading to excessive communication overhead. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Dan Guo , Xibin Jin , Shuai Wang , Zhigang Wen , Miaowen Wen , Chengzhong Xu

We propose a novel formulation of the "effectiveness problem" in communications, put forth by Shannon and Weaver in their seminal work [2], by considering multiple agents communicating over a noisy channel in order to achieve better…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Tze-Yang Tung , Szymon Kobus , Joan Roig Pujol , Deniz Gunduz

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for modeling complex interactions among autonomous entities in distributed environments. In Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), communication enables coordination but can…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Xinren Zhang , Jiadong Yu , Zixin Zhong

Representation learning is a widely adopted framework for learning in data-scarce environments, aiming to extract common features from related tasks. While centralized approaches have been extensively studied, decentralized methods remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Donghwa Kang , Shana Moothedath

A new single-letter achievable rate region is proposed for the two-user discrete memoryless multiple-access channel(MAC) with noiseless feedback. The proposed region includes the Cover-Leung rate region [1], and it is shown that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Ramji Venkataramanan , S. Sandeep Pradhan

State-of-the-art schemes for performance analysis and optimization of multiple-input multiple-output systems generally experience degradation or even become invalid in dynamic complex scenarios with unknown interference and channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Fan Meng , Shengheng Liu , Yongming Huang , Zhaohua Lu

Effective communication is an essential component in collaborative multi-agent systems. Situations where explicit messaging is not feasible have been common in human society throughout history, which motivate the study of implicit…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Han Wang , Binbin Chen , Tieying Zhang , Baoxiang Wang

This paper studies channel coding for the discrete memoryless multiple-access channel with a given (possibly suboptimal) decoding rule. A multi-letter successive decoding rule depending on an arbitrary non-negative decoding metric is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Jonathan Scarlett , Alfonso Martinez , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

In low-resource multilingual speech-to-text translation, uniform architectural sharing across languages frequently introduces representation conflicts that impede convergence. This work proposes a principled methodology to automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ruiyan Sun , Satoshi Nakamura

In this work, we expand the cooperative multi-task semantic communication framework (CMT-SemCom) introduced in [1], which divides the semantic encoder on the transmitter side into a common unit (CU) and multiple specific units (SUs), to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Ahmad Halimi Razlighi , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

The multiuser communication channel, in which multiple users exchange information with the help of a relay terminal, termed the multi-way relay channel (mRC), is introduced. In this model, multiple interfering clusters of users communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Deniz Gunduz , Aylin Yener , Andrea Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Coded caching (CC) can transform cache memory at network devices into an active communication resource. Prior studies have shown that CC can significantly enhance the achievable Degrees of Freedom (DoF) in multi-input multi-output (MIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

End-to-end autoencoder (AE) learning has the potential of exceeding the performance of human-engineered transceivers and encoding schemes, without a priori knowledge of communication-theoretic principles. In this work, we aim to understand…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jinxiang Song , Christian Häger , Jochen Schröder , Timothy J. O'Shea , Erik Agrell , Henk Wymeersch

Recent advances in deep forecasting models have achieved remarkable performance, yet most approaches still struggle to provide both accurate predictions and interpretable insights into temporal dynamics. This paper proposes CaReTS, a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Fulong Yao , Wanqing Zhao , Chao Zheng , Xiaofei Han

In multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL), agents can communicate with one another to perform a task in a coordinated manner. When multiple tasks are involved, agents can also leverage knowledge from one task to improve learning in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Changxi Zhu , Mehdi Dastani , Shihan Wang

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

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