Se-HiLo: Noise-Resilient Semantic Communication with High-and-Low Frequency Decomposition

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Main Authors: Xi, Zhiyuan, Zhu, Kun, Xu, Yuanyuan
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author Xi, Zhiyuan
Zhu, Kun
Xu, Yuanyuan
author_facet Xi, Zhiyuan
Zhu, Kun
Xu, Yuanyuan
contents Semantic communication has emerged as a transformative paradigm in next-generation communication systems, leveraging advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models to extract and transmit semantic representations for efficient information exchange. Nevertheless, the presence of unpredictable semantic noise, such as ambiguity and distortions in transmitted representations, often undermines the reliability of received information. Conventional approaches primarily adopt adversarial training with noise injection to mitigate the adverse effects of noise. However, such methods exhibit limited adaptability to varying noise levels and impose additional computational overhead during model training. To address these challenges, this paper proposes Noise-Resilient \textbf{Se}mantic Communication with \textbf{Hi}gh-and-\textbf{Lo}w Frequency Decomposition (Se-HiLo) for image transmission. The proposed Se-HiLo incorporates a Finite Scalar Quantization (FSQ) based noise-resilient module, which bypasses adversarial training by enforcing encoded representations within predefined spaces to enhance noise resilience. While FSQ improves robustness, it compromise representational diversity. To alleviate this trade-off, we adopt a transformer-based high-and-low frequency decomposition module that decouples image representations into high-and-low frequency components, mapping them into separate FSQ representation spaces to preserve representational diversity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Se-HiLo achieves superior noise resilience and ensures accurate semantic communication across diverse noise environments.
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spellingShingle Se-HiLo: Noise-Resilient Semantic Communication with High-and-Low Frequency Decomposition
Xi, Zhiyuan
Zhu, Kun
Xu, Yuanyuan
Networking and Internet Architecture
Semantic communication has emerged as a transformative paradigm in next-generation communication systems, leveraging advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models to extract and transmit semantic representations for efficient information exchange. Nevertheless, the presence of unpredictable semantic noise, such as ambiguity and distortions in transmitted representations, often undermines the reliability of received information. Conventional approaches primarily adopt adversarial training with noise injection to mitigate the adverse effects of noise. However, such methods exhibit limited adaptability to varying noise levels and impose additional computational overhead during model training. To address these challenges, this paper proposes Noise-Resilient \textbf{Se}mantic Communication with \textbf{Hi}gh-and-\textbf{Lo}w Frequency Decomposition (Se-HiLo) for image transmission. The proposed Se-HiLo incorporates a Finite Scalar Quantization (FSQ) based noise-resilient module, which bypasses adversarial training by enforcing encoded representations within predefined spaces to enhance noise resilience. While FSQ improves robustness, it compromise representational diversity. To alleviate this trade-off, we adopt a transformer-based high-and-low frequency decomposition module that decouples image representations into high-and-low frequency components, mapping them into separate FSQ representation spaces to preserve representational diversity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Se-HiLo achieves superior noise resilience and ensures accurate semantic communication across diverse noise environments.
title Se-HiLo: Noise-Resilient Semantic Communication with High-and-Low Frequency Decomposition
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06883