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In task-oriented communications, most existing work designed the physical-layer communication modules and learning based codecs with distinct objectives: learning is targeted at accurate execution of specific tasks, while communication aims…

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This letter introduces a multi-rate task-oriented communication (MR-ToC) framework. This framework dynamically adapts to variations in affordable data rate within the communication pipeline. It conceptualizes communication pipelines as…

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As the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices keeps increasing, data is required to be communicated and processed by these devices at unprecedented rates. Cooperation among wireless devices by exploiting Device-to-Device (D2D)…

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Edge-device co-inference, which concerns the cooperation between edge devices and an edge server for completing inference tasks over wireless networks, has been a promising technique for enabling various kinds of intelligent services at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiang Jiao , Dingzhu Wen , Guangxu Zhu , Wei Jiang , Wu Luo , Yuanming Shi

In the near future, Internet-of-Things (IoT) is expected to connect billions of devices (e.g., smartphones and sensors), which generate massive real-time data at the network edge. Intelligence can be distilled from the data to support…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Qiao Lan , Zezhong Zhang , Yuqing Du , Zhenyi Lin , Kaibin Huang

The Internet of Things (IoT) interconnects multiple physical devices in large-scale networks. When the 'things' coordinate decisions and act collectively on shared information, feedback is introduced between them. Multiple feedback loops…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Sebastian Trimpe , Dominik Baumann

With the increasing scale of machine learning tasks, it has become essential to reduce the communication between computing nodes. Early work on gradient compression focused on the bottleneck between CPUs and GPUs, but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Sarit Khirirat , Sindri Magnússon , Arda Aytekin , Mikael Johansson

To support popular Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as virtual reality, mobile games and wearable devices, edge computing provides a front-end distributed computing archetype of centralized cloud computing with low latency.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Xiaolan Liu , Jiadong Yu , Yue Gao

Resource allocation is a fundamental problem in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems, in which devices work together under limited communication bandwidth to complete diverse tasks. This paper proposes a communication-efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yuzhu Duan , Ziwen Yang , Xiaoming Duan , Shanying Zhu

As modern neural networks become increasingly memory-bound, inference throughput is limited by DRAM bandwidth rather than compute. We present Arithmetic-Intensity-Aware Quantization (AIQ), a mixed precision quantization framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Taig Singh , Shreshth Rajan , Nikhil Jain

Departing from the classic paradigm of data-centric designs, the 6G networks for supporting edge AI features task-oriented techniques that focus on effective and efficient execution of AI task. Targeting end-to-end system performance, such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Dingzhu Wen , Xiang Jiao , Peixi Liu , Guangxu Zhu , Yuanming Shi , Kaibin Huang

With the surge in IoT devices ranging from wearables to smart homes, prompt transmission is crucial. The Age of Information (AoI) emerges as a critical metric in this context, representing the freshness of the information transmitted across…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Aymen Hamrouni , Sofie Pollin , Hazem Sallouha

The development of edge computing places critical demands on energy-efficient model deployment for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detection tasks. Deploying deep unfolding models such as PGD-Nets and ADMM-Nets into…

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The recent breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI), especially deep neural networks (DNNs), has affected every branch of science and technology. Particularly, edge AI has been envisioned as a major application scenario to provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jiawei Shao , Jun Zhang

Given the fast growth of intelligent devices, it is expected that a large number of high-stake artificial intelligence (AI) applications, e.g., drones, autonomous cars, tactile robots, will be deployed at the edge of wireless networks in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Kai Yang , Yong Zhou , Zhanpeng Yang , Yuanming Shi

Edge computing (EC), positioned near end devices, holds significant potential for delivering low-latency, energy-efficient, and secure services. This makes it a crucial component of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, the increasing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yang Li , Xing Zhang , Bo Lei , Qianying Zhao , Min Wei , Zheyan Qu , Wenbo Wang

Performing unsupervised domain adaptation on resource-constrained edge devices is challenging. Existing research typically adopts architecture optimization (e.g., designing slimmable networks) but requires expensive training costs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Nanyang Du , Chen Tang , Yuxiao Jiang , Yuan Meng , Zhi Wang

Edge-device co-inference refers to deploying well-trained artificial intelligent (AI) models at the network edge under the cooperation of devices and edge servers for providing ambient intelligent services. For enhancing the utilization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zeming Zhuang , Dingzhu Wen , Yuanming Shi , Guangxu Zhu , Sheng Wu , Dusit Niyato

By deploying machine-learning algorithms at the network edge, edge learning can leverage the enormous real-time data generated by billions of mobile devices to train AI models, which enable intelligent mobile applications. In this emerging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Dongzhu Liu , Guangxu Zhu , Jun Zhang , Kaibin Huang

Real-time intelligence applications in Internet of Things (IoT) environment depend on timely data communication. However, it is challenging to transmit and analyse massive data of various modalities. Recently proposed task-oriented…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shiqi Wang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang