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This paper delves into the applications of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in semantic communication (SemCom) and presents a thorough study. Three popular SemCom systems enabled by classical GAI models are first introduced,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Jinke Ren , Yaping Sun , Hongyang Du , Weiwen Yuan , Chongjie Wang , Xianda Wang , Yingbin Zhou , Ziwei Zhu , Fangxin Wang , Shuguang Cui

The rapid development of multimodal AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) has greatly enhanced real-time interaction, decision-making, and collaborative tasks. However, in wireless multi-agent scenarios, limited bandwidth poses significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Guangyuan Liu , Yinqiu Liu , Ruichen Zhang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Zehui Xiong , Sumei Sun , Abbas Jamalipour

Semantic communication (SemCom) aims to convey the intended meaning of messages rather than merely transmitting bits, thereby offering greater efficiency and robustness, particularly in resource-constrained or noisy environments. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chengyang Liang , Dong Li

Recent DiT-based text-to-image models increasingly adopt LLMs as text encoders, yet text conditioning remains largely static and often utilizes only a single LLM layer, despite pronounced semantic hierarchy across LLM layers and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Bozhou Li , Yushuo Guan , Haolin Li , Bohan Zeng , Yiyan Ji , Yue Ding , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Yuanxing Zhang , Wentao Zhang

Despite progress in semantic communication (SemCom), research on SemCom security is still in its infancy. To bridge this gap, we propose a general covert SemCom framework for wireless networks, reducing eavesdropping risk. Our approach…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yansheng Liu , Jinbo Wen , Zongyao Zhang , Kun Zhu , Yang Zhang , Jiangtian Nie , Jiawen Kang

Semantic communication has become a popular research area due its high spectrum efficiency and error-correction performance. Some studies use deep learning to extract semantic features, which usually form end-to-end semantic communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Semantic communication is emerging as the next pillar in wireless communication technology due to its transformative capabilities in reducing communication overhead, enhancing robustness, and enabling intelligent information exchange. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Loc X. Nguyen , Avi Deb Raha , Pyae Sone Aung , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Diffusion-based semantic communication methods have shown significant advantages in image transmission by harnessing the generative power of diffusion models. However, they still face challenges, including generation randomness that leads…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang

In this paper, a novel semantic communication framework empowered by generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is proposed, to enhance the robustness against both channel noise and transmission data distribution shifts. A theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Xiucheng Wang , Honggang Jia , Nan Cheng

Generative diffusion models (GDMs) have recently shown great success in synthesizing multimedia signals with high perceptual quality, enabling highly efficient semantic communications in future wireless networks. In this paper, we develop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xinkai Liu , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Li Qiao , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli , Mehdi Bennis

This paper investigates backdoor attacks in image-oriented semantic communications. The threat of backdoor attacks on symbol reconstruction in semantic communication (SemCom) systems has received limited attention. Previous research on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jialin Wan , Jinglong Shen , Nan Cheng , Zhisheng Yin , Yiliang Liu , Wenchao Xu , Xuemin , Shen

Semantic Communication (SemCom), leveraging its significant advantages in transmission efficiency and reliability, has emerged as a core technology for constructing future intellicise (intelligent and concise) wireless networks. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Rui Meng , Song Gao , Bingxuan Xu , Xiaodong Xu , Jianqiao Chen , Nan Ma , Pei Xiao , Ping Zhang , Rahim Tafazolli

Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionize the design, optimization and management of next-generation communication systems. In this article, we explore the integration of large AI models (LAMs) into semantic communications…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Wanli Ni , Zhijin Qin , Haofeng Sun , Xiaoming Tao , Zhu Han

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

Semantic communication is of crucial importance for the next-generation wireless communication networks. The existing works have developed semantic communication frameworks based on deep learning. However, systems powered by deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuan Zhou , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

Semantic communication (SemCom) is an emerging technology that extracts useful meaning from data and sends only relevant semantic information. Thus, it has the great potential to improve the spectrum efficiency of conventional wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Zeyang Hu , Tianyu Liu , Changsheng You , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen

Latent diffusion models offer an attractive alternative to discrete diffusion for non-autoregressive text generation by operating on continuous text representations and denoising entire sequences in parallel. The major challenge in latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Viacheslav Meshchaninov , Alexander Shabalin , Egor Chimbulatov , Nikita Gushchin , Ilya Koziev , Alexander Korotin , Dmitry Vetrov

This paper develops an edge-device collaborative Generative Semantic Communications (Gen SemCom) framework leveraging pre-trained Multi-modal/Vision Language Models (M/VLMs) for ultra-low-rate semantic communication via textual prompts. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Mengmeng Ren , Li Qiao , Long Yang , Zhen Gao , Jian Chen , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli , Mehdi Bennis

The burgeoning generative artificial intelligence technology offers novel insights into the development of semantic communication (SemCom) frameworks. These frameworks hold the potential to address the challenges associated with the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Hongyang Du , Yanli Yuan , Tony Q. S. Quek

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving unprecedented communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to extract and transmit the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jianhao Huang , Qunsong Zeng , Hongyang Du , Kaibin Huang