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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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Alessio Devoto , Simone Petruzzi , Jary Pomponi , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Simone Scardapane

This paper develops an edge-device collaborative Generative Semantic Communications (Gen SemCom) framework leveraging pre-trained Multi-modal/Vision Language Models (M/VLMs) for ultra-low-rate semantic communication via textual prompts. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Mengmeng Ren , Li Qiao , Long Yang , Zhen Gao , Jian Chen , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli , Mehdi Bennis

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm that leverages Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to extract task-relevant information, thereby substantially reducing the volume of transmitted data. In existing implementations,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xingqiu He , Chaoqun You , Zihan Chen , Yao Sun , Dongzhu Liu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Yue Gao

In this work, a self-attention based conditional generative adversarial network (SA-cGAN) framework for the sixth generation (6G) semantic communication system is proposed, explicitly designed to balance the trade-off between distortion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Faizan Shafi , Rahul Jashvantbhai Pandya , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Sridhar Iyer

The dominant paradigm for semantic parsing in recent years is to formulate parsing as a sequence-to-sequence task, generating predictions with auto-regressive sequence decoders. In this work, we explore an alternative paradigm. We formulate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Jeremy R. Cole , Nanjiang Jiang , Panupong Pasupat , Luheng He , Peter Shaw

Task-oriented semantic communications have achieved significant performance gains. However, the employed deep neural networks in semantic communications have to be updated when the task is changed or multiple models need to be stored for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Xiaoming Tao

Achieving more powerful semantic representations and semantic understanding is one of the key problems in improving the performance of semantic communication systems. This work focuses on enhancing the semantic understanding of the text…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Mengli Tao , Jiancun Fan , Jie Luo , Huiqiang Xie

Empowered by deep learning, semantic communication marks a paradigm shift from transmitting raw data to conveying task-relevant meaning, enabling more efficient and intelligent wireless systems. In this study, we explore a deep…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Chenyang Wang , Roger Olsson , Stefan Forsström , Qing He

As satellite communications play an increasingly important role in future wireless networks, the issue of limited link budget in satellite systems has attracted significant attention in current research. Although semantic communications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Chong Huang , Gaojie Chen , Jing Zhu , Qu Luo , Pei Xiao , Wei Huang , Rahim Tafazolli

With the booming development of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a new paradigm for reliable and efficient communication. This paper considers a multi-user downlink SemCom system,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Jiayi Lu , Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Rahim Tafazolli , Tony Q. S. Quek , Mérouane Debbah , Dong In Kim

Recent advances in AI call for a paradigm shift from bit-centric communication to goal- and semantics-oriented architectures, paving the way for AI-native 6G networks. In this context, we address a key open challenge: enabling heterogeneous…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Enrico Grimaldi , Mario Edoardo Pandolfo , Gabriele D'Acunto , Sergio Barbarossa , Paolo Di Lorenzo

This paper presents an adaptive framework for edge inference based on a dynamically configurable transformer-powered deep joint source channel coding (DJSCC) architecture. Motivated by a practical scenario where a resource constrained edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Alessio Devoto , Jary Pomponi , Mattia Merluzzi , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Simone Scardapane

Semantic communication (SemCom) is an emerging paradigm aiming at transmitting only task-relevant semantic information to the receiver, which can significantly improve communication efficiency. Recent advancements in generative artificial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Shunpu Tang , Ruichen Zhang , Yuxuan Yan , Qianqian Yang , Dusit Niyato , Xianbin Wang , Shiwen Mao

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , H. Vincent Poor

Semantic communication (SemCom) is expected to be a core paradigm in future communication networks, yielding significant benefits in terms of spectrum resource saving and information interaction efficiency. However, the existing SemCom…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Le Xia , Yao Sun , Chengsi Liang , Lei Zhang , Muhammad Ali Imran , Dusit Niyato

As a new communication paradigm, semantic communication has received widespread attention in communication fields. However, since the decoding of semantic signals relies on contextual knowledge, misalignment between the starting position of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Xiaoyi Liu , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu

With the proliferation of edge computing, efficient AI inference on edge devices has become essential for intelligent applications such as autonomous vehicles and VR/AR. In this context, we address the problem of efficient remote object…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Xiangyu Gao , Yaping Sun , Dongyu Wei , Xiaodong Xu , Hao Chen , Hao Yin , Shuguang Cui

Semantic parsing using hierarchical representations has recently been proposed for task oriented dialog with promising results [Gupta et al 2018]. In this paper, we present three different improvements to the model: contextualized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Arash Einolghozati , Panupong Pasupat , Sonal Gupta , Rushin Shah , Mrinal Mohit , Mike Lewis , Luke Zettlemoyer

We consider a multi-user semantic communications system in which agents (transmitters and receivers) interact through the exchange of semantic messages to convey meanings. In this context, languages are instrumental in structuring the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Mohamed Sana , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Upon the advent of the emerging metaverse and its related applications in Augmented Reality (AR), the current bit-oriented network struggles to support real-time changes for the vast amount of associated information, hindering its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zhe Wang , Yansha Deng , A. Hamid Aghvami