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Cooperative perception enables autonomous agents to share encoded representations over wireless communication to enhance each other's live situational awareness. However, the tension between the limited communication bandwidth and the rich…

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In this work, we expand the cooperative multi-task semantic communication framework (CMT-SemCom) introduced in [1], which divides the semantic encoder on the transmitter side into a common unit (CU) and multiple specific units (SUs), to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Ahmad Halimi Razlighi , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

A significant bottleneck in federated learning (FL) is the network communication cost of sending model updates from client devices to the central server. We present a comprehensive empirical study of the statistics of model updates in FL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Nicole Mitchell , Johannes Ballé , Zachary Charles , Jakub Konečný

Organisms have to keep track of the information in the environment that is relevant for adaptive behaviour. Transmitting information in an economical and efficient way becomes crucial for limited-resourced agents living in high-dimensional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Miguel de Llanza Varona , Christopher L. Buckley , Beren Millidge

Multi-agent collaborative perception (CP) improves scene understanding by sharing information across connected agents such as autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and robots. Communication bandwidth, however, constrains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Dereje Shenkut , B. V. K Vijaya Kumar

Artificial intelligence (AI) is ushering in a new era for communication. As a result, the establishment of a semantic communication framework is putting on the agenda. Based on a realistic semantic communication model, this paper develops a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yi-Qun Zhao , Zhi-Ming Ma , Geoffrey Ye Li , Shuai Yuan , Tong Ye , Chuan Zhou

In multi-agent collaborative sensing systems, substantial communication overhead from information exchange significantly limits scalability and real-time performance, especially in bandwidth-constrained environments. This often results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Erdemt Bao , Jin Yang

Collaborative perception allows connected vehicles to exchange sensor information and overcome each vehicle's blind spots. Yet transmitting raw point clouds or full feature maps overwhelms Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications, causing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Melih Yazgan , Allen Xavier Arasan , J. Marius Zöllner

Multi-agent systems powered by large language models exhibit strong capabilities in collaborative problem-solving. However, these systems suffer from substantial knowledge redundancy. Agents duplicate efforts in retrieval and reasoning…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Heng Zhang , Yuling Shi , Xiaodong Gu , Haochen You , Zijian Zhang , Lubin Gan , Yilei Yuan , Jin Huang

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

Learning cooperative policies for multi-agent systems is often challenged by partial observability and a lack of coordination. In some settings, the structure of a problem allows a distributed solution with limited communication. Here, we…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Roel Dobbe , David Fridovich-Keil , Claire Tomlin

The rate-distortion-perception (RDP) tradeoff characterizes the fundamental limits of lossy compression by jointly considering bitrate, reconstruction fidelity, and perceptual quality. While recent neural compression methods have improved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yuhan Wang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Cooperative perception can significantly improve the perception performance of autonomous vehicles beyond the limited perception ability of individual vehicles by exchanging information with neighbor agents through V2X communication.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Shunli Ren , Zixing Lei , Zi Wang , Mehrdad Dianati , Yafei Wang , Siheng Chen , Wenjun Zhang

In this paper, a semantic communication framework for image transmission is developed. In the investigated framework, a set of servers cooperatively transmit images to a set of users utilizing semantic communication techniques. To evaluate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Wenjing Zhang , Yining Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Tao Luo , Dusit Niyato

Compared with individual agents, large language model based multi-agent systems have shown great capabilities consistently across diverse tasks, including code generation, mathematical reasoning, and planning, etc. Despite their impressive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhen Zhang , Wanjing Zhou , Juncheng Li , Hao Fei , Jun Wen , Wei Ji

Occlusion is a major challenge for LiDAR-based object detection methods. This challenge becomes safety-critical in urban traffic where the ego vehicle must have reliable object detection to avoid collision while its field of view is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Minh-Quan Dao , Julie Stephany Berrio , Vincent Frémont , Mao Shan , Elwan Héry , Stewart Worrall

Transformers achieve superior performance on many tasks, but impose heavy compute and memory requirements during inference. This inference can be made more efficient by partitioning the process across multiple devices, which, in turn,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Anderson de Andrade , Alon Harell , Ivan V. Bajić

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

Deep reinforcement learning algorithms have recently been used to train multiple interacting agents in a centralised manner whilst keeping their execution decentralised. When the agents can only acquire partial observations and are faced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Emanuele Pesce , Giovanni Montana

This paper investigates task-oriented communication for multi-device cooperative edge inference, where a group of distributed low-end edge devices transmit the extracted features of local samples to a powerful edge server for inference.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang