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Discrete image tokenizers have emerged as a key component of modern vision and multimodal systems, providing a sequential interface for transformer-based architectures. However, most existing approaches remain primarily optimized for…

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Modern communications are usually designed to pursue a higher bit-level precision and fewer bits while transmitting a message. This article rethinks these two major features and introduces the concept and advantage of semantics that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Kun Lu , Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Xianfu Chen , Jianjun Wu , Honggang Zhang

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for future 6G networks, offering task-oriented and meaning-aware transmission that fundamentally redefines traditional bit-centric design. Recognized by leading…

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Large language model (LLM) serving is now limited by the key-value (KV) cache. During decode, each new token rereads prior KV state, so attention becomes a bandwidth- and capacity-heavy memory task. HBM-PIM helps by moving attention closer…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhuoran Li , Zhuohang Bian , Zihao Huang , Guangyu Sun , Yun Liang , Youwei Zhuo

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for future wireless networks by prioritizing task-relevant meaning over raw data delivery, thereby reducing communication overhead and improving efficiency. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang , Yuanyuan Jia , Junyu Pan , Shuo Shao , Jincheng Dai , Meixia Tao , Ping Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities but suffer from apparent precision loss, reframed here as information spreading. This reframing shifts the problem from computational precision to an information-theoretic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Christopher James Augeri

Task-Oriented Semantic Communication (TOSC) has been considered as a new communication paradigm to serve various samrt devices that depend on Artificial Intelligence (AI) tasks in future wireless networks. The existing TOSC frameworks rely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Yuzhou Fu , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang , Wei Zhang

Existing speech tokenizers typically assign a fixed number of tokens per second, regardless of the varying information density or temporal fluctuations in the speech signal. This uniform token allocation mismatches the intrinsic structure…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Rui-Chen Zheng , Wenrui Liu , Hui-Peng Du , Qinglin Zhang , Chong Deng , Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

The recent emergence of 6G raises the challenge of increasing the transmission data rate even further in order to break the barrier set by the Shannon limit. Traditional communication methods fall short of the 6G goals, paving the way for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Sachin Kadam , Dong In Kim

This paper jointly investigates user association (UA), mode selection (MS), and bandwidth allocation (BA) problems in a novel and practical next-generation cellular network where two modes of semantic communication (SemCom) and conventional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Le Xia , Yao Sun , Dusit Niyato , Lan Zhang , Lei Zhang , Muhammad Ali Imran

Recent developments in machine learning (ML) techniques enable users to extract, transmit, and reproduce information semantics via ML-based semantic communication (SemCom). This significantly increases network spectral efficiency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Guhan Zheng , Qiang Ni , Aryan Kaushik , Lixia Yang , Yushi Wang , Charilaos Zarakovitis

Semantic communication (SemCom) redefines wireless communication from reproducing symbols to transmitting task-relevant semantics. However, this AI-native architecture also introduces new vulnerabilities, as semantic failures may arise from…

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Text-rich graphs, prevalent in data mining contexts like e-commerce and academic graphs, consist of nodes with textual features linked by various relations. Traditional graph machine learning models, such as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs),…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) apply uniform computation to all tokens, despite language exhibiting highly non-uniform information density. This token-uniform regime wastes capacity on locally predictable spans while under-allocating…

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm that leverages Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to extract task-relevant information, thereby substantially reducing the volume of transmitted data. In existing implementations,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xingqiu He , Chaoqun You , Zihan Chen , Yao Sun , Dongzhu Liu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Yue Gao

Aligning acoustic and linguistic representations is a central challenge to bridge the pre-trained models in knowledge transfer for automatic speech recognition (ASR). This alignment is inherently structured and asymmetric: while multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Xugang Lu , Peng Shen , Hisashi Kawai

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising technology for enhancing communication efficiency. However, most existing research emphasizes single-task reconstruction, neglecting model adaptability and generalization across multi-task…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Weiwen Yuan , Jinke Ren , Chongjie Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Jun Wei , Dong In Kim , Shuguang Cui

In the evolving landscape of wireless communications, semantic communication (SemCom) has recently emerged as a 6G enabler that prioritizes the transmission of meaning and contextual relevance over conventional bit-centric metrics. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Hazem Barka , Georges Kaddoum , Mehdi Bennis , Md Sahabul Alam , Minh Au

Satellite-terrestrial communications are severely constrained by high path loss, limited spectrum resources, and time-varying channel conditions, rendering conventional bit-level transmission schemes inefficient and fragile, particularly in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jinghong Huang , Mengying Sun , Xiaodong Xu , Jianchi Zhu , Zechuan Fang , Jingxuan Zhang , Ruichen Zhang , Chen Dong , Ping Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Semantic communications have shown its great potential to improve the transmission reliability, especially in the low signal-to-noise regime. However, resource allocation for semantic communications still remains unexplored, which is a…

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