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Despite recent progress in Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), it remains challenging to integrate diverse tasks ranging from pixel-level perception to high-fidelity generation. Existing approaches often suffer from either restricted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Bin Zhu , Munan Ning , Peng Jin , Bin Lin , Jinfa Huang , Qi Song , Junwu Zhang , Zhenyu Tang , Mingjun Pan , Li Yuan

We study dynamic multi-robot task allocation under uncertain task completion, time-window constraints, and incomplete information. Tasks arrive online over a finite horizon and must be completed within specified deadlines, while agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Maria G. Mendoza , Pan-Yang Su , Bryce L. Ferguson , S. Shankar Sastry

For cyber-physical systems in the 6G era, semantic communications connecting distributed devices for dynamic control and remote state estimation are required to guarantee application-level performance, not merely focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jiazheng Chen , Wanchun Liu , Daniel Quevedo , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Semantic communications have been utilized to execute numerous intelligent tasks by transmitting task-related semantic information instead of bits. In this article, we propose a semantic-aware speech-to-text transmission system for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Huiqiang Xie , Xiaoming Tao , Khaled B. Letaief

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

In this paper, we explore a multi-task semantic communication (SemCom) system for distributed sources, extending the existing focus on collaborative single-task execution. We build on the cooperative multi-task processing introduced in [1],…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Ahmad Halimi Razlighi , Maximilian H. V. Tillmann , Edgar Beck , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

Semantic communication is a promising technology for next-generation wireless networks. However, the out-of-distribution (OOD) problem, where a pre-trained machine learning (ML) model is applied to unseen tasks that are outside the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Feifan Zhang , Yuyang Du , Kexin Chen , Yulin Shao , Soung Chang Liew

With the ever-increasing range of applications of Internet in Things (IoT) and sensor networks, challenges are emerging in various categories of classification tasks. Applications such as vehicular networking, UAV swarm coordination and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Andrew Nash , Dirk Pesch , Krishnendu Guha

By transmitting task-related information only, semantic communications yield significant performance gains over conventional communications. However, the lack of mature semantic theory about semantic information quantification and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Lei Yan , Zhijin Qin , Chunfeng Li , Rui Zhang , Yongzhao Li , Xiaoming Tao

Semantic communication, an intelligent communication paradigm that aims to transmit useful information in the semantic domain, is facilitated by deep learning techniques. Robust semantic features can be learned and transmitted in an analog…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 Lei Guo , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Bo Ai

This work considers a layered coding approach for efficient transmission of data over a wireless block fading channel without transmitter channel state information (CSI), which is connected to a limited capacity reliable link, known as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Avi Steiner , Shlomo Shamai

Multi-task semantic communication can serve multiple learning tasks using a shared encoder model. Existing models have overlooked the intricate relationships between features extracted during an encoding process of tasks. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xi Yu , Tiejun Lv , Weicai Li , Wei Ni , Dusit Niyato , Ekram Hossain

We introduce the matrix-based Renyi's $\alpha$-order entropy functional to parameterize Tishby et al. information bottleneck (IB) principle with a neural network. We term our methodology Deep Deterministic Information Bottleneck (DIB), as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Xi Yu , Shujian Yu , Jose C. Principe

In recent years, there has been significant progress in semantic communication systems empowered by deep learning techniques. It has greatly improved the efficiency of information transmission. Nevertheless, traditional semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Zengle Zhu , Rongqing Zhang , Xiang Cheng , Liuqing Yang

Recently, semantic communications have drawn great attention as the groundbreaking concept surpasses the limited capacity of Shannon's theory. Specifically, semantic communications probably become crucial in realizing visual tasks that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Jeonghun Park , Sung Whan Yoon

Multimodal learning systems often face substantial uncertainty due to noisy data, low-quality labels, and heterogeneous modality characteristics. These issues become especially critical in human-computer interaction settings, where data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Hyo-Jeong Jang

Deep learning representations are often difficult to interpret, which can hinder their deployment in sensitive applications. Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) have emerged as a promising approach to mitigate this issue by learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Antonio Almudévar , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Alfonso Ortega

As digital technologies advance, communication networks face challenges in handling the vast data generated by intelligent devices. Autonomous vehicles, smart sensors, and IoT systems necessitate new paradigms. This thesis addresses these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Francesco Pezone

Semantic communication acts as a key enabler for effective task execution in AI-driven systems, prioritizing the extraction of the underlying meaning before transmission. However, when devices rely on different logic and internal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Giuseppe Di Poce , Mattia Merluzzi , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Paolo Di Lorenzo