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We consider a multi-user semantic communications system in which agents (transmitters and receivers) interact through the exchange of semantic messages to convey meanings. In this context, languages are instrumental in structuring the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Mohamed Sana , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Classical communication paradigms focus on accurately transmitting bits over a noisy channel, and Shannon theory provides a fundamental theoretical limit on the rate of reliable communications. In this approach, bits are treated equally,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Jincheng Dai , Ping Zhang , Kai Niu , Sixian Wang , Zhongwei Si , Xiaoqi Qin

Classical communication paradigms focus on accurately transmitting bits over a noisy channel, and Shannon theory provides a fundamental theoretical limit on the rate of reliable communications. In this approach, bits are treated equally,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Jincheng Dai , Ping Zhang , Kai Niu , Sixian Wang , Zhongwei Si , Xiaoqi Qin

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm that focuses on conveying the user's intended meaning rather than the bit-wise transmission of source signals. One of the key challenges is to effectively represent and extract the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jingxuan Chai , Yong Xiao , Guangming Shi

Semantic Communication (SC) has emerged as a novel communication paradigm in recent years, successfully transcending the Shannon physical capacity limits through innovative semantic transmission concepts. Nevertheless, extant Image Semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Feibo Jiang , Chuanguo Tang , Li Dong , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan

Digital mapping of semantic features is essential for achieving interoperability between semantic communication and practical digital infrastructure. However, current research efforts predominantly concentrate on analog semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Jianqiao Chen , Nan Ma , Xiaodong Xu , Tingting Zhu , Huishi Song , Chen Dong , Wenkai Liu , Rui Meng , Ping Zhang

In recent years, Semantic Communication (SemCom), which aims to achieve efficient and reliable transmission of meaning between agents, has garnered significant attention from both academia and industry. To ensure the security of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Rui Meng , Dayu Fan , Haixiao Gao , Yifan Yuan , Bizhu Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Mengying Sun , Chen Dong , Xiaofeng Tao , Ping Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Different from data-oriented communication systems that primarily focus on how to accurately transmit every bit of data, task-oriented semantic communication systems only transmit the specific semantic information required by downstream…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wenbo Yu , Bin Chen , Qinshan Zhang , Shu-Tao Xia

In this paper, we propose a novel blind multi-input multi-output (MIMO) semantic communication (SC) framework named Blind-MIMOSC that consists of a deep joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) transmitter and a diffusion-based blind receiver.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Hao Jiang , Xiaojun Yuan , Yinuo Huang , Qinghua Guo

Visible light communication (VLC) is emerging as a key technology for future wireless communication systems due to its unique physical-layer advantages over traditional radio-frequency (RF)-based systems. However, its integration with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Zhouxiang Zhao , Zhaohui Yang , Chen Zhu , Xin Tong , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper proposes a multichannel source separation technique called the multichannel variational autoencoder (MVAE) method, which uses a conditional VAE (CVAE) to model and estimate the power spectrograms of the sources in a mixture. By…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-28 Hirokazu Kameoka , Li Li , Shota Inoue , Shoji Makino

To address the challenges of robust data transmission over complex time-varying channels, this paper introduces channel learning and enhanced adaptive reconstruction (CLEAR) strategy for semantic communications. CLEAR integrates deep joint…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Hongzhi Pan , Shengliang Wu , Lingyun Wang , Yujun Zhu , Weiwei Jiang , Xin He

In response to the rapid growth of global videomtraffic and the limitations of traditional wireless transmission systems, we propose a novel dual-stage vector quantization framework, VQ-DeepVSC, tailored to enhance video transmission over…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yongyi Miao , Zhongdang Li , Yang Wang , Die Hu , Jun Yan , Youfang Wang

Although the semantic communications have exhibited satisfactory performance in a large number of tasks, the impact of semantic noise and the robustness of the systems have not been well investigated. Semantic noise is a particular kind of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Qiyu Hu , Guangyi Zhang , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Geoffrey Ye Li

Internet of Things (IoT) networks face significant challenges such as limited communication bandwidth, constrained computational and energy resources, and highly dynamic wireless channel conditions. Utilization of deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Soroosh Miri , Sepehr Abolhasani , Shahrokh Farahmand , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

Recent audio generation models typically rely on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and perform generation within the VAE latent space. Although VAEs excel at compression and reconstruction, their latents inherently encode low-level acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zeyu Xie , Chenxing Li , Qiao Jin , Xuenan Xu , Guanrou Yang , Wenfu Wang , Mengyue Wu , Dong Yu , Yuexian Zou

Semantic communications have shown promising advancements by optimizing source and channel coding jointly. However, the dynamics of these systems remain understudied, limiting research and performance gains. Inspired by the robustness of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Hanju Yoo , Linglong Dai , Songkuk Kim , Chan-Byoung Chae

Although semantic communications have exhibited satisfactory performance for a large number of tasks, the impact of semantic noise and the robustness of the systems have not been well investigated. Semantic noise refers to the misleading…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Qiyu Hu , Guangyi Zhang , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Geoffrey Ye Li

This paper introduces rateless joint source-channel coding (rateless JSCC). The code is rateless in that it is designed and optimized for a continuum of coding rates such that it achieves a desired distortion for any rate in that continuum.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Saeed R. Khosravirad

In the era of 6G, with compelling visions of intelligent transportation systems and digital twins, remote surveillance is poised to become a ubiquitous practice. Substantial data volume and frequent updates present challenges in wireless…

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