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We introduce a Recursive INsertion-based Encoder (RINE), a novel approach for semantic parsing in task-oriented dialog. Our model consists of an encoder network that incrementally builds the semantic parse tree by predicting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Elman Mansimov , Yi Zhang

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling goal-oriented networking. However, most existing semantic communication solutions are tailored to one-shot tasks and optimize instantaneous performance. Hence, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lingyi Wang , Tingyu Shui , Walid Saad , Pascal Adjakple

Today's Internet is heavily used for multimedia streaming from cloud backends, while the Internet of Things (IoT) reverses the traditional data flow, with high data volumes produced at the network edge. Information Centric Networking (ICN)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Christopher Scherb , Dennis Grewe , Christian Tschudin

Reliable detection of surrounding objects is critical for the safe operation of connected automated vehicles (CAVs). However, inherent limitations such as the restricted perception range and occlusion effects compromise the reliability of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Jipeng Gan , Yucheng Sheng , Hua Zhang , Le Liang , Hao Ye , Chongtao Guo , Shi Jin

The growing demand for efficient semantic communication systems capable of managing diverse tasks and adapting to fluctuating channel conditions has driven the development of robust, resource-efficient frameworks. This article introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Xiang Chen , Shuying Gan , Chenyuan Feng , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Semantic communication is considered the future of mobile communication, which aims to transmit data beyond Shannon's theorem of communications by transmitting the semantic meaning of the data rather than the bit-by-bit reconstruction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Maheshi Lokumarambage , Vishnu Gowrisetty , Hossein Rezaei , Thushan Sivalingam , Nandana Rajatheva , Anil Fernando

In task-oriented semantic communications, the transmitters are designed to deliver task-related semantic information rather than every signal bit to receivers, which alleviates the spectrum pressure by reducing network traffic loads.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Hong Chen , Fang Fang , Xianbin Wang

Goal-oriented semantic communication (SC) aims to revolutionize communication systems by transmitting only task-essential information. However, current approaches face challenges such as joint training at transceivers, leading to redundant…

Semantic communication is emerging as a key paradigm for 6G networks, where the goal is not to perfectly reconstruct bits but to preserve the meaning that matters for a given task. This shift can improve bandwidth efficiency, robustness,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tuğçe Bilen , Ian F. Akyildiz

Motivated by the recent success of Machine Learning (ML) tools in wireless communications, the idea of semantic communication by Weaver from 1949 has gained attention. It breaks with Shannon's classic design paradigm by aiming to transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Edgar Beck , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

Various applications for inter-machine communications are on the rise. Whether it is for autonomous driving vehicles or the internet of everything, machines are more connected than ever to improve their performance in fulfilling a given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Arsham Mostaani , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

With the development of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and the increasing popularity of camera-equipped devices, many edge video analytics applications are emerging, calling for the deployment of computation-intensive AI models at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Jiawei Shao , Xinjie Zhang , Jun Zhang

Generative foundation models can revolutionize the design of semantic communication (SemCom) systems allowing high fidelity exchange of semantic information at ultra low rates. In this work, a generative SemCom framework with pretrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Chunmei Xu , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli , Jiangzhou Wang

Existing communication systems aim to reconstruct the information at the receiver side, and are known as reconstruction-oriented communications. This approach often falls short in meeting the real-time, task-specific demands of modern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yufeng Diao , Yichi Zhang , Changyang She , Philip Guodong Zhao , Emma Liying Li

Semantic-oriented communication has been considered as a promising to boost the bandwidth efficiency by only transmitting the semantics of the data. In this paper, we propose a multi-level semantic aware communication system for wireless…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Zhenguo Zhang , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Mingyang Sun , Jiming Chen

We introduce CompTok, a training framework for learning visual tokenizers whose tokens are enhanced for compositionality. CompTok uses a token-conditioned diffusion decoder. By employing an InfoGAN-style objective, where we train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Bingchen Zhao , Qiushan Guo , Ye Wang , Yixuan Huang , Zhonghua Zhai , Yu Tian

Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is an effective approach for semantic communication. However, current JSCC methods are difficult to integrate with existing communication network architectures, where application and network providers are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Wenzheng Kong , Wenyi Zhang

Foundation models in language and vision benefit from a unified discrete token interface that converts raw inputs into sequences for scalable pre-training and inference. For graphs, an effective tokenizer should yield reusable discrete…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yang Xiang , Li Fan , Chenke Yin , Lutz Oettershagen , Chengtao Ji

Visual generative models based on latent space have achieved great success, underscoring the significance of visual tokenization. Mapping images to latents boosts efficiency and enables multimodal alignment for scaling up in downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yunpeng Qu , Kaidong Zhang , Yukang Ding , Ying Chen , Jian Wang

This paper proposes new framework of communication system leveraging promising generation capabilities of multi-modal generative models. Regarding nowadays smart applications, successful communication can be made by conveying the perceptual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-11 Hyelin Nam , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Seong-Lyun Kim