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Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving unprecedented communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to extract and transmit the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jianhao Huang , Qunsong Zeng , Hongyang Du , Kaibin Huang

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

While neural lossy compression techniques have markedly advanced the efficiency of Channel State Information (CSI) compression and reconstruction for feedback in MIMO communications, efficient algorithms for more challenging and practical…

Semantic Communication (SC) is an emerging technology aiming to surpass the Shannon limit. Traditional SC strategies often minimize signal distortion between the original and reconstructed data, neglecting perceptual quality, especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Kexin Zhang , Lixin Li , Wensheng Lin , Yuna Yan , Rui Li , Wenchi Cheng , Zhu Han

The rapid development of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) continually unveils the potential of Semantic Communication (SemCom). However, current talking-face SemCom systems still encounter challenges such as low bandwidth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Feibo Jiang , Siwei Tu , Li Dong , Cunhua Pan , Jiangzhou Wang , Xiaohu You

While deep generative models are showing exciting abilities in computer vision and natural language processing, their adoption in communication frameworks is still far underestimated. These methods are demonstrated to evolve solutions to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Eleonora Grassucci , Jihong Park , Sergio Barbarossa , Seong-Lyun Kim , Jinho Choi , Danilo Comminiello

Modern video codecs and learning-based approaches struggle for semantic reconstruction at extremely low bit-rates due to reliance on low-level spatiotemporal redundancies. Generative models, especially diffusion models, offer a new paradigm…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Maojun Zhang , Haotian Wu , Richeng Jin , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Autoregressive language models dominate modern text generation, yet their sequential nature introduces fundamental limitations: decoding is slow, and maintaining global coherence remains challenging. Diffusion models offer a promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Viacheslav Meshchaninov , Egor Chimbulatov , Alexander Shabalin , Aleksandr Abramov , Dmitry Vetrov

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

Semantic communication is poised to play a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of future AI-driven communication systems. Its challenge of extracting semantic information from the original complex content and regenerating semantically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Eleonora Grassucci , Yuki Mitsufuji , Ping Zhang , Danilo Comminiello

While learned image compression (LIC) focuses on efficient data transmission, generative image compression (GIC) extends this framework by integrating generative modeling to produce photo-realistic reconstructed images. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Minghao Han , Weiyi You , Jinhua Zhang , Leheng Zhang , Ce Zhu , Shuhang Gu

Quantum generative models offer a promising new direction in machine learning by leveraging quantum circuits to enhance data generation capabilities. In this study, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical image generation framework that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Chi-Sheng Chen , Wei An Hou , Hsiang-Wei Hu , Zhen-Sheng Cai

Semantic communication (SemCom) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation wireless systems. Empowered by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, SemCom has achieved significant improvements in transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Shunpu Tang , Yuanyuan Jia , Qianqian Yang , Ruichen Zhang , Jihong Park , Dusit Niyato

In recent years, novel communication strategies have emerged to face the challenges that the increased number of connected devices and the higher quality of transmitted information are posing. Among them, semantic communication obtained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Eleonora Grassucci , Jinho Choi , Jihong Park , Riccardo F. Gramaccioni , Giordano Cicchetti , Danilo Comminiello

Diffusion Model (DM) based Semantic Image Communication (SIC) systems face significant challenges, such as slow inference speed and generation randomness, that limit their reliability and practicality. To overcome these issues, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Bilal Khalid , Pedro Freire , Sergei K. Turitsyn , Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky

Quality of Experience (QoE) prediction plays a crucial role in optimizing resource management and enhancing user satisfaction across both telecommunication and OTT services. While recent advances predominantly rely on deep learning models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Vinti Nayar , Kanica Sachdev , Brejesh Lall

Diffusion models that are based on iterative denoising have been recently proposed and leveraged in various generation tasks like image generation. Whereas, as a way inherently built for continuous data, existing diffusion models still have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiaao Chen , Aston Zhang , Mu Li , Alex Smola , Diyi Yang

Semantic communications represent a new paradigm of next-generation networking that shifts bit-wise data delivery to conveying the semantic meanings for bandwidth efficiency. To effectively accommodate various potential downstream tasks at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Fupei Guo , Achintha Wijesinghe , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

This paper proposes new framework of communication system leveraging promising generation capabilities of multi-modal generative models. Regarding nowadays smart applications, successful communication can be made by conveying the perceptual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-11 Hyelin Nam , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Seong-Lyun Kim

Diffusion models have achieved great success in image synthesis through iterative noise estimation using deep neural networks. However, the slow inference, high memory consumption, and computation intensity of the noise estimation model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Xiuyu Li , Yijiang Liu , Long Lian , Huanrui Yang , Zhen Dong , Daniel Kang , Shanghang Zhang , Kurt Keutzer