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We present a novel autoencoder-based approach for designing codes that provide unequal error protection (UEP) capabilities. The proposed design is based on a generalization of an autoencoder loss function that accommodates both message-wise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Christian Häger , Henk Wymeersch , Alexandre Graell i Amat

This paper investigates unequal error protection (UEP) in digital semantic communication, where semantically important bits require substantially higher reliability than less critical ones. To characterize this heterogeneity, we introduce a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Seonjung Kim , Yongjeong Oh , Yongjune Kim , Namyoon Lee , Yo-Seb Jeon

Conventional communication systems are mainly designed to reduce error rates and increase transmission rates, and therefore usually provide uniform protection to all transmitted messages. However, in intent-oriented applications, different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Qiming Lu , Shan Lu , Takaya Yamazato

Because of their capacity-approaching performance, graph-based codes have a wide range of applications, including communications and storage. In these codes, unequal error protection (UEP) can offer performance gains with limited rate loss.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Beyza Dabak , Ahmed Hareedy , Alexei Ashikhmin , Robert Calderbank

Error correcting codes play a central role in digital communication, ensuring that transmitted information can be accurately reconstructed despite channel impairments. Recently, autoencoder (AE) based approaches have gained attention for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic

In this paper, we consider designing low-density parity-check (LDPC) coded modulation systems to achieve unequal error protection (UEP). We propose a new UEP approach by partial superposition transmission called UEP-by-PST. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Kechao Huang , Chulong Liang , Xiao Ma , Baoming Bai

In this work we explore possibilities for coding and decoding tailor-made for mean squared error evaluation of error in contexts such as image transmission. To do so, we introduce a loss function that expresses the overall performance of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Marcelo Firer , Luciano Panek , Jerry Anderson Pinheiro

An information theoretic framework for unequal error protection is developed in terms of the exponential error bounds. The fundamental difference between the bit-wise and message-wise unequal error protection (UEP) is demonstrated, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Shashi Borade , Baris Nakiboglu , Lizhong Zheng

Large-scale machine learning and data mining methods routinely distribute computations across multiple agents to parallelize processing. The time required for computation at the agents is affected by the availability of local resources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Busra Tegin , Eduin E. Hernandez , Stefano Rini , Tolga M. Duman

With the increasing demands on future wireless systems, new design objectives become eminent. Low-density parity-check codes together with belief propagation (BP) decoding have outstanding performance for large block lengths. Yet, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jonathan Mandelbaum , Sisi Miao , Nils Albert Schwendemann , Holger Jäkel , Laurent Schmalen

In this paper, we propose an open-loop unequal-error-protection querying policy based on superposition coding for the noisy 20 questions problem. In this problem, a player wishes to successively refine an estimate of the value of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Hye Won Chung , Brian M. Sadler , Lizhong Zheng , Alfred O. Hero

Deep Learning has been widely applied in the area of image processing and natural language processing. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end communication structure based on autoencoder where the transceiver can be optimized jointly. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Tianjie Mu , Xiaohui Chen , Li Chen , Huarui Yin , Weidong Wang

Traditional mathematical models used in designing next-generation communication systems often fall short due to inherent simplifications, narrow scope, and computational limitations. In recent years, the incorporation of deep learning (DL)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-14 Omar Alnaseri , Laith Alzubaidi , Yassine Himeur , Mohammed Alaa Ala'anzy , Jens Timmermann , Mohammed S. M. Gismalla

In the short block length regime, ensemble decoding schemes with their inherently parallel structure can improve error correction performance and reduce latency compared to stand-alone suboptimal decoders such as belief propagation (BP). In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jonathan Mandelbaum , Paul Bezner , Holger Jäkel , Stephan ten Brink , Laurent Schmalen

Irregular low-density parity check (LDPC) codes are particularly well-suited for transmission schemes that require unequal error protection (UEP) of the transmitted data due to the different connection degrees of its variable nodes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-01 H. V. Beltrao Neto , W. Henkel , V. C. da Rocha

Large-scale machine learning and data mining methods routinely distribute computations across multiple agents to parallelize processing. The time required for the computations at the agents is affected by the availability of local resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Busra Tegin , Eduin. E. Hernandez , Stefano Rini , Tolga M. Duman

In this paper, we introduce an autoencoder (AE)-based scheme for end-to-end optimization of a multi-user molecule mixture communication system. In the proposed scheme, each transmitter leverages an encoder network that maps the user symbol…

Based on the provided LaTeX code, here is the metadata for the submission form: Title: TokCom-UEP: Semantic Importance-Matched Unequal Error Protection for Resilient Image Transmission Author(s): Kaizheng Zhang, Zuolin Jin, Zhihang Cheng,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Kaizheng Zhang , Zuolin Jin , Zhihang Cheng , Ming Zeng , Li Qiao , Zesong Fei

Auto-Encoder (AE)-based deep subspace clustering (DSC) methods have achieved impressive performance due to the powerful representation extracted using deep neural networks while prioritizing categorical separability. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Juncheng Lv , Zhao Kang , Xiao Lu , Zenglin Xu

Rateless codes have been shown to be able to provide greater flexibility and efficiency than fixed-rate codes for multicast applications. In the following, we optimize rateless codes for unequal error protection (UEP) for multimedia…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Yu Cao , Steven D. Blostein , Wai-Yip Chan
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