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Semantic communication has gained attention as a key enabler for intelligent and context-aware communication. However, one of the key challenges of semantic communications is the need to tailor the resource allocation to meet the specific…

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Recently, learning-based semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising approach in the upcoming 6G network and researchers have made remarkable efforts in this field. However, existing works have yet to fully explore the…

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This work introduces Semantically Masked Vector Quantized Generative Adversarial Network (SQ-GAN), a novel approach integrating semantically driven image coding and vector quantization to optimize image compression for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Francesco Pezone , Sergio Barbarossa , Giuseppe Caire

Large-scale models (LSMs) can be an effective framework for semantic representation and understanding, thereby providing a suitable tool for designing semantic communication (SC) systems. However, their direct deployment is often hindered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kuiyuan Ding , Caili Guo , Yang Yang , Zhongtian Du , Walid Saad

Semantic communication is designed to tackle issues like bandwidth constraints and high latency in communication systems. However, in complex network topologies with multiple users, the enormous combinations of client data and channel state…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Xingrun Yan , Shiyuan Zuo , Yifeng Lyu , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu

Recent work shows that documents from encyclopedias serve as helpful auxiliary information for zero-shot learning. Existing methods align the entire semantics of a document with corresponding images to transfer knowledge. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Xiangyan Qu , Jing Yu , Keke Gai , Jiamin Zhuang , Yuanmin Tang , Gang Xiong , Gaopeng Gou , Qi Wu

Semantic communication technology emerges as a pivotal bridge connecting AI with classical communication. The current semantic communication systems are generally modeled as an Auto-Encoder (AE). AE lacks a deep integration of AI principles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Yulong Feng , Jing Xu , Liujun Hu , Guanghui Yu , Xiangyang Duan

Rich high-quality annotated data is critical for semantic segmentation learning, yet acquiring dense and pixel-wise ground-truth is both labor- and time-consuming. Coarse annotations (e.g., scribbles, coarse polygons) offer an economical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Yadan Luo , Ziwei Wang , Zi Huang , Yang Yang , Cong Zhao

Semantic communication enables intelligent agents to extract meaning (or semantics) of information via interaction, to carry out collaborative tasks. In this paper, we study semantic communication from a topological space perspective, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Qiyang Zhao , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah , Daniel Benevides da Costa

Learning disentangled representations of natural language is essential for many NLP tasks, e.g., conditional text generation, style transfer, personalized dialogue systems, etc. Similar problems have been studied extensively for other forms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Pengyu Cheng , Martin Renqiang Min , Dinghan Shen , Christopher Malon , Yizhe Zhang , Yitong Li , Lawrence Carin

This paper addresses the problems of missing reasoning chains and insufficient entity-level semantic understanding in large language models when dealing with tasks that require structured knowledge. It proposes a fine-tuning algorithm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Wuyang Zhang , Yexin Tian , Xiandong Meng , Mengjie Wang , Junliang Du

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…

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We consider the problem of joint source and channel coding of structured data such as natural language over a noisy channel. The typical approach to this problem in both theory and practice involves performing source coding to first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Nariman Farsad , Milind Rao , Andrea Goldsmith

One of the primary goals of information theory is to provide limits on the amount of information it is possible to send through various types of communication channels, and to understand the encoding methods that will allow one to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Michael R. Beran , Scott M. Cohen

Semantic communication, rather than on a bit-by-bit recovery of the transmitted messages, focuses on the meaning and the goal of the communication itself. In this paper, we propose a novel semantic image coding scheme that preserves the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Francesco Pezone , Osman Musa , Giuseppe Caire , Sergio Barbarossa

This paper proposes a novel end-to-end digital semantic communication framework based on multi-codebook vector quantization (VQ), referred to as ESC-MVQ. Unlike prior approaches that rely on end-to-end training with a specific power or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Junyong Shin , Yongjeong Oh , Jinsung Park , Joohyuk Park , Yo-Seb Jeon

Recent advancements in speech-language models have yielded significant improvements in speech tokenization and synthesis. However, effectively mapping the complex, multidimensional attributes of speech into discrete tokens remains…

Semantic communication is expected to be one of the cores of next-generation AI-based communications. One of the possibilities offered by semantic communication is the capability to regenerate, at the destination side, images or videos…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Eleonora Grassucci , Sergio Barbarossa , Danilo Comminiello

Semantic Communication (SemCom) systems, empowered by deep learning (DL), represent a paradigm shift in data transmission. These systems prioritize the significance of content over sheer data volume. However, existing SemCom designs face…

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