Effective Communication with Dynamic Feature Compression

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Auteurs principaux: Talli, Pietro, Pase, Francesco, Chiariotti, Federico, Zanella, Andrea, Zorzi, Michele
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author Talli, Pietro
Pase, Francesco
Chiariotti, Federico
Zanella, Andrea
Zorzi, Michele
author_facet Talli, Pietro
Pase, Francesco
Chiariotti, Federico
Zanella, Andrea
Zorzi, Michele
contents The remote wireless control of industrial systems is one of the major use cases for 5G and beyond systems: in these cases, the massive amounts of sensory information that need to be shared over the wireless medium may overload even high-capacity connections. Consequently, solving the effective communication problem by optimizing the transmission strategy to discard irrelevant information can provide a significant advantage, but is often a very complex task. In this work, we consider a prototypal system in which an observer must communicate its sensory data to a robot controlling a task (e.g., a mobile robot in a factory). We then model it as a remote Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP), considering the effect of adopting semantic and effective communication-oriented solutions on the overall system performance. We split the communication problem by considering an ensemble Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE) encoding, and train a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agent to dynamically adapt the quantization level, considering both the current state of the environment and the memory of past messages. We tested the proposed approach on the well-known CartPole reference control problem, obtaining a significant performance increase over traditional approaches.
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spellingShingle Effective Communication with Dynamic Feature Compression
Talli, Pietro
Pase, Francesco
Chiariotti, Federico
Zanella, Andrea
Zorzi, Michele
Machine Learning
Information Theory
Multiagent Systems
Optimization and Control
The remote wireless control of industrial systems is one of the major use cases for 5G and beyond systems: in these cases, the massive amounts of sensory information that need to be shared over the wireless medium may overload even high-capacity connections. Consequently, solving the effective communication problem by optimizing the transmission strategy to discard irrelevant information can provide a significant advantage, but is often a very complex task. In this work, we consider a prototypal system in which an observer must communicate its sensory data to a robot controlling a task (e.g., a mobile robot in a factory). We then model it as a remote Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP), considering the effect of adopting semantic and effective communication-oriented solutions on the overall system performance. We split the communication problem by considering an ensemble Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE) encoding, and train a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agent to dynamically adapt the quantization level, considering both the current state of the environment and the memory of past messages. We tested the proposed approach on the well-known CartPole reference control problem, obtaining a significant performance increase over traditional approaches.
title Effective Communication with Dynamic Feature Compression
topic Machine Learning
Information Theory
Multiagent Systems
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16236