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This article serves as a brief introduction to the Shannon information theory. Concepts of information, Shannon entropy and channel capacity are mainly covered. All these concepts are developed in a totally combinatorial flavor. Some issues…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Ricky X. F. Chen

Achieving artificially intelligent-native wireless networks is necessary for the operation of future 6G applications such as the metaverse. Nonetheless, current communication schemes are, at heart, a mere reconstruction process that lacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad

Conventional spoken language understanding systems consist of two main components: an automatic speech recognition module that converts audio to a transcript, and a natural language understanding module that transforms the resulting text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Parisa Haghani , Arun Narayanan , Michiel Bacchiani , Galen Chuang , Neeraj Gaur , Pedro Moreno , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Zhongdi Qu , Austin Waters

Directly sending audio signals from a transmitter to a receiver across a noisy channel may absorb consistent bandwidth and be prone to errors when trying to recover the transmitted bits. On the contrary, the recent semantic communication…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Eleonora Grassucci , Christian Marinoni , Andrea Rodriguez , Danilo Comminiello

This paper develops a principled foundation for goal-oriented semantic communication for logical decision-making. Consider a setting where autonomous agents engage in collaborative perception. In such settings, the volume of sensory data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ahmet Faruk Saz , Faramarz Fekri

In this paper, we investigated semantic communication for multi-task processing using an information-theoretic approach. We introduced the concept of a "semantic source", allowing multiple semantic interpretations from a single observation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Ahmad Halimi Razlighi , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

The expansion of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks into space introduces technical challenges that conventional bit-oriented communication approaches cannot efficiently address, including intermittent connectivity, severe latency,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Hanlin Cai , Houtianfu Wang , Haofan Dong , Ozgur B. Akan

The growing demand for efficient semantic communication systems capable of managing diverse tasks and adapting to fluctuating channel conditions has driven the development of robust, resource-efficient frameworks. This article introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Xiang Chen , Shuying Gan , Chenyuan Feng , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Semantic communication is emerging as a key paradigm for 6G networks, where the goal is not to perfectly reconstruct bits but to preserve the meaning that matters for a given task. This shift can improve bandwidth efficiency, robustness,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tuğçe Bilen , Ian F. Akyildiz

The main objective of explanations is to transmit knowledge to humans. This work proposes to construct informative explanations for predictions made from machine learning models. Motivated by the observations from social sciences, our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Freddy Lecue , Jiewen Wu

I introduce a new approach to semantic information based upon the influence of erasure operations (interventions) upon distributions of a system's future trajectories through its phase space. Semantic (meaningful) information is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-11 Stuart J Bartlett

Semantic communications focus on prioritizing the understanding of the meaning behind transmitted data and ensuring the successful completion of tasks that motivate the exchange of information. However, when devices rely on different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mario Edoardo Pandolfo , Simone Fiorellino , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Paolo Di Lorenzo

How does language inform our downstream thinking? In particular, how do humans make meaning from language--and how can we leverage a theory of linguistic meaning to build machines that think in more human-like ways? In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Lionel Wong , Gabriel Grand , Alexander K. Lew , Noah D. Goodman , Vikash K. Mansinghka , Jacob Andreas , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Identifying the physical grounds distinguishing quantum theory from broader probabilistic frameworks remains an open challenge. Communication-based proposals -- most notably the principles of impossibility of superluminal signaling and…

Traditional joint source-channel coding employs static learned semantic representations that cannot dynamically adapt to evolving source distributions. Shared semantic memories between transmitter and receiver can potentially enable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Karim Nasreddine , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad

Recent work has attempted to characterize the structure of semantic memory and the search algorithms which, together, best approximate human patterns of search revealed in a semantic fluency task. There are a number of models that seek to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Filip Miscevic , Aida Nematzadeh , Suzanne Stevenson

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Siqi Meng , Rongxing Lu , Sumei Sun , Qinyu Zhang

Following the recent success of Machine Learning tools in wireless communications, the idea of semantic communication by Weaver from 1949 has gained attention. It breaks with Shannon's classic design paradigm by aiming to transmit the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Edgar Beck , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

A crucial step towards the 6th generation (6G) of networks would be a shift in communication paradigm beyond the limits of Shannon's theory. In both classical and quantum Shannon's information theory, communication channels are generally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Marcello Caleffi , Kyrylo Simonov , Angela Sara Cacciapuoti

In forthcoming AI-assisted 6G networks, integrating semantic, pragmatic, and goal-oriented communication strategies becomes imperative. This integration will enable sensing, transmission, and processing of exclusively pertinent task data,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tomás Hüttebräucker , Mohamed Sana , Emilio Calvanese Strinati