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Semantic communication has recently attracted significant interest from both industry and academia due to its potential to transform the existing data-focused communication architecture towards a more generally intelligent and goal-oriented…

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The growing integration of distributed integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) with closed-loop control in intelligent networks demands efficient information transmission under stringent bandwidth constraints. To address this challenge,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-26 Guangjin Pan , Ayça Özçelikkale , Christian Häger , Musa Furkan Keskin , Henk Wymeersch

Semantic communication aims to transmit information most relevant to a task rather than raw data, offering significant gains in communication efficiency for applications such as telepresence, augmented reality, and remote sensing. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Matin Mortaheb , Erciyes Karakaya , Sennur Ulukus

Verbal communication plays a crucial role in human cooperation, particularly when the partners only have incomplete information about the task, environment, and each other's mental state. In this paper, we propose a novel cooperative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Lance Ying , Kunal Jha , Shivam Aarya , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Antonio Torralba , Tianmin Shu

Future planetary exploration envisions autonomous robotic agents operating under severe communication constraints, without global positioning, and with minimal human intervention. In such environments, agents must not only perceive and act,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hayden Moore , Suman Saha , Mahfuza Farooque

Shannon information theory provides various measures of so-called "syntactic information", which reflect the amount of statistical correlation between systems. In contrast, the concept of "semantic information" refers to those correlations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-22 Artemy Kolchinsky , David H. Wolpert

During the first step of practical reasoning, i.e. deliberation or goals selection, an intelligent agent generates a set of pursuable goals and then selects which of them he commits to achieve. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Mariela Morveli-Espinoza , Cesar Augusto Tacla , Henrique Jasinski

Semantic communication aims to convey meaning rather than bit-perfect reproduction, representing a paradigm shift from traditional communication. This paper investigates distribution learning in semantic communication where receivers must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Samer Lahoud , Kinda Khawam

We argue that an explainable artificial intelligence must possess a rationale for its decisions, be able to infer the purpose of observed behaviour, and be able to explain its decisions in the context of what its audience understands and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Michael Timothy Bennett , Yoshihiro Maruyama

Semantic communication aims to facilitate purposeful information exchange among diverse intelligent entities, including humans, machines, and organisms. It emphasizes precise semantic transmission over data fidelity, striving for meaningful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yuntao Wang

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 is viewed as a revolutionary paradigm that can potentially transform how we design and operate wireless communication systems. However, despite a recent surge of research activities in this area, the research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

The problem of goal-oriented semantic filtering and timely source coding in multiuser communication systems is considered here. We study a distributed monitoring system in which multiple information sources, each observing a physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Pouya Agheli , Nikolaos Pappas , Marios Kountouris

Shannon's information theory deliberately excludes message semantics. This paper develops a rigorous framework for semantic communication that integrates formal proof systems with Shannon-theoretic tools. We introduce an axiomatic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jianfeng Xu

Optimizations premised on open-loop metrics such as Age of Information (AoI) indirectly enhance the system's decision-making utility. We therefore propose a novel closed-loop metric named Goal-oriented Tensor (GoT) to directly quantify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Sumei Sun , Jie Cao

Sensing and communication are fundamental enablers of next-generation networks. While communication technologies have advanced significantly, sensing remains limited to conventional parameter estimation and is far from fully explored.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Xiaoqi Zhang , J. Andrew Zhang , Chang Liu , Weijie Yuan , Geoffrey Ye Li , Moeness G. Amin

Semantic navigation is the navigation paradigm in which environmental semantic concepts and their relationships are taken into account to plan the route of a mobile robot. This paradigm facilitates the interaction with humans and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jonathan Crespo , Ramón Barber , O. M. Mozos , Daniel Beßler , Michael Beetz

Natural language has long enabled human cooperation, but its lossy, ambiguous, and indirect nature limits the potential of collective intelligence. While machines are not subject to these constraints, most LLM-based multi-agent systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yujia Zheng , Zhuokai Zhao , Zijian Li , Yaqi Xie , Mingze Gao , Lizhu Zhang , Kun Zhang

The coordination of robotic swarms and the remote wireless control of industrial systems are among the major use cases for 5G and beyond systems: in these cases, the massive amounts of sensory information that needs to be shared over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Pietro Talli , Francesco Pase , Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Zanella , Michele Zorzi

Autoregressive language models achieve remarkable performance, yet a unified theory explaining their internal mechanisms, how training shapes representations, and why these representations support complex behavior remains incomplete. We…

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