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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been recognized as a key enabler and feature of future wireless networks. In the existing works analyzing the performances of ISAC, discrete-time systems were commonly assumed, which, however,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zhouyuan Yu , Xiaoling Hu , Chenxi Liu , Mugen Peng

Integrating sensing and communication (ISAC) can help overcome the challenges of limited spectrum and expensive hardware, leading to improved energy and cost efficiency. While full cooperation between sensing and communication can result in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Mojtaba Vaezi , Gayan Aruma Baduge , Esa Ollila , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

The goal of multi-task learning is to learn diverse tasks within a single unified network. As each task has its own unique objective function, conflicts emerge during training, resulting in negative transfer among them. Earlier research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Wooseong Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

We consider task allocation for multi-object transport using a multi-robot system, in which each robot selects one object among multiple objects with different and unknown weights. The existing centralized methods assume the number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Kazuki Shibata , Tomohiko Jimbo , Tadashi Odashima , Keisuke Takeshita , Takamitsu Matsubara

Mutual information (MI) is a principled and widely used objective for robotic information gathering (RIG), providing strong theoretical guarantees for sensor placement (SP) and informative path planning (IPP). However, its high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Kalvik Jakkala , Jason O'Kane , Srinivas Akella

Machine Translation (MT) tools are widely used today, often in contexts where professional translators are not present. Despite progress in MT technology, a gap persists between system development and real-world usage, particularly for…

Multi-task learning for various real-world applications usually involves tasks with logical sequential dependence. For example, in online marketing, the cascade behavior pattern of $impression \rightarrow click \rightarrow conversion$ is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yunpeng Weng , Xing Tang , Liang Chen , Xiuqiang He

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) enable direct communication between the brain and external devices. This review highlights the core decoding algorithms that enable multimodal BCIs, including a dissection of the elements, a unified view of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Siyang Li , Hongbin Wang , Xiaoqing Chen , Dongrui Wu

Embodied agents have achieved prominent performance in following human instructions to complete tasks. However, the potential of providing instructions informed by texts and images to assist humans in completing tasks remains underexplored.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yujie Lu , Pan Lu , Zhiyu Chen , Wanrong Zhu , Xin Eric Wang , William Yang Wang

Task-oriented dialogue (ToD) systems are designed to help users achieve specific goals through natural language interaction. While recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved linguistic fluency and contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Shutong Feng , Hsien-chin Lin , Nurul Lubis , Carel van Niekerk , Michael Heck , Benjamin Ruppik , Renato Vukovic , Milica Gašić

Task-oriented communication aims to extract and transmit task-relevant information to significantly reduce the communication overhead and transmission latency. However, the unpredictable distribution shifts between training and test data,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Hongru Li , Jiawei Shao , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Foundation models have achieved great advances in multi-task learning with a unified interface of unimodal and multimodal tasks. However, the potential of such multi-task learners has not been exploited during transfer learning. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Chengyue Wu , Teng Wang , Yixiao Ge , Zeyu Lu , Ruisong Zhou , Ying Shan , Ping Luo

Mutual information is fundamentally important for measuring statistical dependence between variables and for quantifying information transfer by signaling and communication mechanisms. It can, however, be challenging to evaluate for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Clive G. Bowsher , Margaritis Voliotis

Multimodal meta-learning is a recent problem that extends conventional few-shot meta-learning by generalizing its setup to diverse multimodal task distributions. This setup makes a step towards mimicking how humans make use of a diverse set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Milad Abdollahzadeh , Touba Malekzadeh , Ngai-Man Cheung

This letter introduces a multi-rate task-oriented communication (MR-ToC) framework. This framework dynamically adapts to variations in affordable data rate within the communication pipeline. It conceptualizes communication pipelines as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Anbang Zhang , Shuaishuai Guo

Natural human interactions for Mixed Reality Applications are overwhelmingly multimodal: humans communicate intent and instructions via a combination of visual, aural and gestural cues. However, supporting low-latency and accurate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Darshana Rathnayake , Ashen de Silva , Dasun Puwakdandawa , Lakmal Meegahapola , Archan Misra , Indika Perera

In this paper, we solve a multi-robot informative path planning (MIPP) task under the influence of uncertain communication and adversarial attackers. The goal is to create a multi-robot system that can learn and unify its knowledge of an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Remy Wehbe , Ryan K. Williams

Language-conditioned robot behavior plays a vital role in executing complex tasks by associating human commands or instructions with perception and actions. The ability to compose long-horizon tasks based on unconstrained language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Zhaoxun Ju , Chao Yang , Hongbo Wang , Yu Qiao , Fuchun Sun

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, yet evaluating their intrinsic linguistic understanding remains challenging. Moving beyond specialized evaluation tasks, we propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Shaojie Wang , Sirui Ding , Na Zou

In this paper, we introduce the problem of decision-oriented communications, that is, the goal of the source is to send the right amount of information in order for the intended destination to execute a task. More specifically, we restrict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Hang Zou , Chao Zhang , Samson Lasaulce , Lucas Saludjian , Patrick Panciatici