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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…

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Semantic communication has emerged as a promising technology for enhancing communication efficiency. However, most existing research emphasizes single-task reconstruction, neglecting model adaptability and generalization across multi-task…

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With the emergence of the metaverse and its role in enabling real-time simulation and analysis of real-world counterparts, an increasing number of personalized metaverse scenarios are being created to influence entertainment experiences and…

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Semantic communication (SemCom) with learned encoder-decoder architectures enables end-to-end learning of compact task-oriented representations optimized for the wireless channel, reducing channel resources needed to convey task-relevant…

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This work designs a novel semantic communication (SemCom) framework for the next-generation wireless network to tackle the challenges of unnecessary transmission of vast amounts that cause high bandwidth consumption, more latency, and…

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While most frontier models still use deterministic frequency-based tokenization algorithms such as byte-pair encoding (BPE), there has been significant recent work to design learned neural tokenizers. However, these schemes generally add to…

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Achieving precise visual localization in GPS-limited urban environments poses significant challenges for resource-constrained mobile platforms, particularly under strict bandwidth, memory, and processing limitations. Inspired by mammalian…

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Semantic communication enhances transmission efficiency by conveying semantic information rather than raw input symbol sequences. Task-oriented semantic communication is a variant that tries to retains only task-specific information, thus…

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Semantic communication is considered the future of mobile communication, which aims to transmit data beyond Shannon's theorem of communications by transmitting the semantic meaning of the data rather than the bit-by-bit reconstruction of…

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Upon the arrival of emerging devices, including Extended Reality (XR) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), the traditional communication framework is approaching Shannon's physical capacity limit and fails to guarantee the massive amount of…

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The rapid expansion of edge devices and Internet-of-Things (IoT) continues to heighten the demand for data transport under limited spectrum resources. The goal-oriented communications (GO-COM), unlike traditional communication systems…

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In this paper, we propose a novel design for AI-native goal-oriented communications, exploiting transformer neural networks under dynamic inference constraints on bandwidth and computation. Transformers have become the standard architecture…

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This paper investigates task-oriented communication for edge inference, where a low-end edge device transmits the extracted feature vector of a local data sample to a powerful edge server for processing. It is critical to encode the data…

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Efficient video transmission is essential for seamless communication and collaboration within the visually-driven digital landscape. To achieve low latency and high-quality video transmission over a bandwidth-constrained noisy wireless…

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Connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) require reliable and efficient communication frameworks to support safety critical and task-oriented applications such as collision avoidance, cooperative perception, and traffic risk assessment.…

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With countless promising applications in various domains such as IoT and industry 4.0, task-oriented communication design (TOCD) is getting accelerated attention from the research community. This paper presents a novel approach for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Arsham Mostaani , Thang X. Vu , Hamed Habibi , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

Multi-task semantic communication can serve multiple learning tasks using a shared encoder model. Existing models have overlooked the intricate relationships between features extracted during an encoding process of tasks. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xi Yu , Tiejun Lv , Weicai Li , Wei Ni , Dusit Niyato , Ekram Hossain

This paper studies an end-to-end video semantic communication system for massive communication. In the considered system, the transmitter must continuously send the video to the receiver to facilitate character reconstruction in immersive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Haopeng Li , Haonan Tong , Sihua Wang , Nuocheng Yang , Zhaohui Yang , Changchuan Yin

Since Shannon's pioneering masterpiece which established the prototype of modern information theory, the goal of communications has long been promising accurate message reconstruction at a refined bit-by-bit level, which deliberately…

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This paper explores the concept of information importance in multi-modal task-oriented semantic communication systems, emphasizing the need for high accuracy and efficiency to fulfill task-specific objectives. At the transmitter, generative…

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