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Recent works have shown that modern machine learning techniques can provide an alternative approach to the long-standing joint source-channel coding (JSCC) problem. Very promising initial results, superior to popular digital schemes that…

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Recent work on generative modeling of text has found that variational auto-encoders (VAE) incorporating LSTM decoders perform worse than simpler LSTM language models (Bowman et al., 2015). This negative result is so far poorly understood,…

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Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm which draws inspiration from human communication focusing on the delivery of the meaning of a message to the intended users. It has attracted significant interest recently due to its…

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Semantic Communication (SC) combined with Vehicular edge computing (VEC) provides an efficient edge task processing paradigm for Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Focusing on highway scenarios, this paper proposes a Tripartite Cooperative…

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Semantic communication (SemCom) has been deemed as a promising communication paradigm to break through the bottleneck of traditional communications. Nonetheless, most of the existing works focus more on point-to-point communication…

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This paper proposes a novel end-to-end digital semantic communication framework based on multi-codebook vector quantization (VQ), referred to as ESC-MVQ. Unlike prior approaches that rely on end-to-end training with a specific power or…

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Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionize the design, optimization and management of next-generation communication systems. In this article, we explore the integration of large AI models (LAMs) into semantic communications…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Wanli Ni , Zhijin Qin , Haofeng Sun , Xiaoming Tao , Zhu Han

Video conferencing has become a popular mode of meeting even if it consumes considerable communication resources. Conventional video compression causes resolution reduction under limited bandwidth. Semantic video conferencing maintains high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Transmission of a Gaussian source over a time-varying Gaussian channel is studied in the presence of time-varying correlated side information at the receiver. A block fading model is considered for both the channel and the side information,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Iñaki Estella Aguerri , Deniz Gündüz

Semantic communication (SemCom) is accelerating its momentum to catch up with the massive increase in users' demands in both quantity and quality, with the assistance of advanced deep learning (DL) techniques. Specifically, SemCom can…

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As digital technologies advance, communication networks face challenges in handling the vast data generated by intelligent devices. Autonomous vehicles, smart sensors, and IoT systems necessitate new paradigms. This thesis addresses these…

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Distributed source coding (DSC) is the task of encoding an input in the absence of correlated side information that is only available to the decoder. Remarkably, Slepian and Wolf showed in 1973 that an encoder without access to the side…

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State-of-the-art high-spectral-efficiency communication systems employ high-order modulation formats coupled with high symbol rates to accommodate the ever-growing demand for data rate-hungry applications. However, such systems are more…

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Speech codecs serve as a crucial bridge in unifying speech and text language models. Existing codec methods face several challenges in semantic encoding, such as residual paralinguistic information (e.g., timbre, emotion), insufficient…

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Recently, deep learned enabled end-to-end (E2E) communication systems have been developed to merge all physical layer blocks in the traditional communication systems, which make joint transceiver optimization possible. Powered by deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li , Biing-Hwang Juang

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

The design of zero-delay Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) schemes for the transmission of correlated information over fading Multiple Access Channels (MACs) is an interesting problem for many communication scenarios like Wireless Sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 O. Fresnedo , P. Suárez-Casal , L. Castedo

Semantic communication is a new paradigm that exploits deep learning models to enable end-to-end communications processes, and recent studies have shown that it can achieve better noise resiliency compared with traditional communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Wenyu Zhang , Kaiyuan Bai , Sherali Zeadally , Haijun Zhang , Hua Shao , Hui Ma , Victor C. M. Leung

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving transmission efficiency and task-level reliability, yet most existing reliability-enhancement approaches rely on retransmission strategies driven by semantic fidelity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Boyuan Li , Shuoyao Wang , Suzhi Bi , Liping Qian , Yunlong Cai

Semantic Communication (SemCom) is envisaged as the next-generation paradigm to address challenges stemming from the conflicts between the increasing volume of transmission data and the scarcity of spectrum resources. However, existing…

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