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Recently, the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth in multi-modal communication systems requires a paradigm shift. Powered by deep learning, semantic communications are applied to multi-modal scenarios to boost communication efficiency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Yangshuo He , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai

This work explores the advantages of using persistence diagrams (PDs), topological signatures of raw point cloud data, in a point-to-point communication setting. PD is a structural semantics in the sense that it carries information about…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Charmin Asirimath , Chathuranga Weeraddana , Sumudu Samarakoon , Jayampathy Ratnayake , Mehdi Bennis

Data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are becoming prominent for learning in support of data compression, but are focused on standard problems such as text compression. To instead address the emerging problem of semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Haizi Yu , Lav R. Varshney

In this paper, the problem of minimum rate maximization for probabilistic semantic communication (PSCom) in industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is investigated. In the considered model, users employ semantic information extraction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Siyun Liang , Zhouxiang Zhao , Chen Zhu , Zhaohui Yang , Yinchao Yang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei , Zhaoyang Zhang

The development of 6G wireless systems is taking place alongside the development of increasingly intelligent wireless devices and network nodes. The changing technological landscape is motivating a rethinking of classical Shannon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Matteo Zecchin , Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan , Giuseppe Durisi , Petar Popovski , Osvaldo Simeone

This work presents a novel semantic transmission framework in wireless networks, leveraging the joint processing technique. Our framework enables multiple cooperating base stations to efficiently transmit semantic information to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Xumin Pu , Tiantian Lei , Wanli Wen , Qianbin Chen

The enormous size of modern deep neural networks makes it challenging to deploy those models in memory and communication limited scenarios. Thus, compressing a trained model without a significant loss in performance has become an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Weihao Gao , Yu-Han Liu , Chong Wang , Sewoong Oh

In recent years, the compression of large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a key problem in facilitating LLM deployment on resource-limited devices, reducing compute costs, and mitigating the environmental footprint due to large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Sean I. Young

With the rapid growth of intelligent services, communication targets are shifting from humans to artificial intelligent (AI) agents, which require new paradigms to enable real-time perception, decision-making, and collaboration. Semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kaiwen Yu , Mengying Sun , Zhijin Qin , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Yang , Yue Xiao , Gang Wu

We study semantic compression for text where meanings contained in the text are conveyed to a source decoder, e.g., for classification. The main motivator to move to such an approach of recovering the meaning without requiring exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Emrecan Kutay , Aylin Yener

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm to address the challenges of next-generation communication networks. While some progress has been made in its conceptualization, fundamental questions remain unresolved. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Javad Gholipour , Rafael F. Schaefer , Gerhard P. Fettweis

Understanding generalization in modern machine learning settings has been one of the major challenges in statistical learning theory. In this context, recent years have witnessed the development of various generalization bounds suggesting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-01 Milad Sefidgaran , Amin Gohari , Gaël Richard , Umut Şimşekli

Lossy compression algorithms are typically designed and analyzed through the lens of Shannon's rate-distortion theory, where the goal is to achieve the lowest possible distortion (e.g., low MSE or high SSIM) at any given bit rate. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Yochai Blau , Tomer Michaeli

In this paper, the problem of joint transmission and computation resource allocation for probabilistic semantic communication (PSC) system with rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) is investigated. In the considered model, the base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Zhouxiang Zhao , Zhaohui Yang , Ye Hu , Qianqian Yang , Wei Xu , Zhaoyang Zhang

Recent breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming multimedia communication. This paper systematically reviews key recent advancements across generative AI for multimedia communication, emphasizing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yili Jin , Xue Liu , Jiangchuan Liu

This paper studies the fundamental limit of semantic communications over the discrete memoryless channel. We consider the scenario to send a semantic source consisting of an observation state and its corresponding semantic state, both of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Dongxu Li , Jianhao Huang , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Han Zhang , Ping Zhang

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) that can accurately reconstruct their input (minimizing distortion) by making efficient use of few features (minimizing the rate) often fail to learn monosemantic representations (highly interpretable), limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tommaso Mencattini , Francesco Montagna , Francesco Locatello

We consider the problem of communicating a sequence of concepts, i.e., unknown and potentially stochastic maps, which can be observed only through examples, i.e., the mapping rules are unknown. The transmitter applies a learning algorithm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Francesco Pase , Szymon Kobus , Deniz Gunduz , Michele Zorzi

Semantic communication (SemCom) is an emerging paradigm that leverages semantic-level understanding to improve communication efficiency, particularly in resource-constrained scenarios. However, existing SemCom systems often overlook diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Xinyi Lin , Peizheng Li , Adnan Aijaz

Rate distortion theory is concerned with optimally encoding a given signal class $\mathcal{S}$ using a budget of $R$ bits, as $R\to\infty$. We say that $\mathcal{S}$ can be compressed at rate $s$ if we can achieve an error of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Philipp Grohs , Andreas Klotz , Felix Voigtlaender