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Semantic communication systems often use an end-to-end neural network to map input data into continuous symbols. These symbols, which are essentially neural network features, usually have fixed dimensions and heavy-tailed distributions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Hanju Yoo , Dongha Choi , Songkuk Kim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Robert W. Heath

Sequential rate-distortion (SRD) theory provides a framework for studying the fundamental trade-off between data-rate and data-quality in real-time communication systems. In this paper, we consider the SRD problem for multi-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Takashi Tanaka , Kwang-Ki K. Kim , Pablo A. Parrilo , Sanjoy K. Mitter

Semantic communications target to reliably convey the semantic meaning of messages. It is different from existing communication systems focusing on reliable bit transmission. To achieve the goal of semantic communications, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-19 Shuaishuai Guo , Yanhu Wang , Peng Zhang

Semantic communication focuses on conveying the task-relevant meaning rather than exact bitwise recovery. For image transmission with a generative receiver, relying only on text descriptions can be insufficient to preserve instance-specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xuesong Wang , Xinyan Xie , Mo Li , Zhaoqian Liu

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

Text-to-image diffusion models are now capable of generating images that are often indistinguishable from real images. To generate such images, these models must understand the semantics of the objects they are asked to generate. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Eric Hedlin , Gopal Sharma , Shweta Mahajan , Hossam Isack , Abhishek Kar , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Kwang Moo Yi

Foundation model-based semantic transmission has recently shown great potential in wireless image communication. However, existing methods exhibit two major limitations: (i) they overlook the varying importance of semantic components for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Fangyu Liu , Peiwen Jiang , Wenjin Wang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

Persistent homology, a technique from computational topology, has recently shown strong empirical performance in the context of graph classification. Being able to capture long range graph properties via higher-order topological features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Rubén Ballester , Bastian Rieck

While recent neural codecs achieve strong performance at low bitrates when optimized for perceptual quality, their effectiveness deteriorates significantly under ultra-low bitrate conditions. To mitigate this, generative compression methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Chuqin Zhou , Xiaoyue Ling , Yunuo Chen , Jincheng Dai , Guo Lu , Wenjun Zhang

In this paper, the problem of wireless resource allocation and semantic information extraction for energy efficient semantic communications over wireless networks with rate splitting is investigated. In the considered model, a base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chongwen Huang

A composite source, consisting of multiple subsources and a memoryless switch, outputs one symbol at a time from the subsource selected by the switch. If some data should be encoded more accurately than other data from an information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jiakun Liu , H. Vincent Poor , Iickho Song , Wenyi Zhang

Topological data analysis uses tools from topology -- the mathematical area that studies shapes -- to create representations of data. In particular, in persistent homology, one studies one-parameter families of spaces associated with data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Guido Montúfar , Nina Otter , Yuguang Wang

Semantic communication (SemCom) aims to achieve high fidelity information delivery under low communication consumption by only guaranteeing semantic accuracy. Nevertheless, semantic communication still suffers from unexpected channel…

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Visual semantic correspondence is an important topic in computer vision and could help machine understand objects in our daily life. However, most previous methods directly train on correspondences in 2D images, which is end-to-end but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yang You , Chengkun Li , Yujing Lou , Zhoujun Cheng , Lizhuang Ma , Cewu Lu , Weiming Wang

Semantic communications have gained significant attention as a promising approach to address the transmission bottleneck, especially with the continuous development of 6G techniques. Distinct from the well investigated physical channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Xiang Peng , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Lu , Khaled B. Letaief

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rapidly developing collection of methods for studying the shape of point cloud and other data types. One popular approach, designed to be robust to noise and outliers, is to first use a smoothing…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-27 Chul Moon , Noah Giansiracusa , Nicole A. Lazar

State-of-the-art approaches for the semantic labeling of LiDAR point clouds heavily rely on the use of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, transferring network architectures across different LiDAR sensor types represents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Florian Piewak , Peter Pinggera , Marius Zöllner

Inferring topological and geometrical information from data can offer an alternative perspective on machine learning problems. Methods from topological data analysis, e.g., persistent homology, enable us to obtain such information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Andreas Uhl

Data quality is crucial for the successful training, generalization and performance of machine learning models. We propose to measure the quality of a subset concerning the dataset it represents, using topological data analysis techniques.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Álvaro Torras-Casas , Eduardo Paluzo-Hidalgo , Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz

Wireless connectivity has traditionally been regarded as an opaque data pipe carrying messages, whose context-dependent meaning and effectiveness have been ignored. Nevertheless, in emerging cyber-physical and autonomous networked systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas