Redefining Information Freshness: AoGI for Generative AI in 6G Networks

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Auteurs principaux: Xiao, Yuquan, Du, Qinghe, Cheng, Wenchi, Karagiannidis, George K., Nallanathan, Arumugam, Guizani, Mohsen
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author Xiao, Yuquan
Du, Qinghe
Cheng, Wenchi
Karagiannidis, George K.
Nallanathan, Arumugam
Guizani, Mohsen
author_facet Xiao, Yuquan
Du, Qinghe
Cheng, Wenchi
Karagiannidis, George K.
Nallanathan, Arumugam
Guizani, Mohsen
contents Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is playing an increasingly important role in enriching and facilitating human life by generating various useful information, of which real-time GenAI is a significant part and has great potential in applications such as real-time robot control, automated driving, augmented reality, etc. There are a variety of information updating processes in real-time GenAI, and the age of information (AoI) is an effective metric for evaluating information freshness. However, due to the diversity and generativity of information in real-time GenAI, it may be incompatible to directly use existing information aging metrics to assess its timeliness. In this article, we introduce a new concept called Age of Generative Information (AoGI) to evaluate the freshness of generative information, which takes into account the information delay caused not only by sampling and transmission, but also by computation. Furthermore, since real-time GenAI services are often supported by mobile-edge-cloud (MEC) collaborative computing in 6G networks and some of the generated information is privacy sensitive, it is recommended that the identities of edge and cloud should always be verified in a zero-trust manner. We introduce the concept of Age of Trust (AoT) to characterise the decay process of their trust level. We also discuss the optimisations of these evolved information aging metrics, focusing on the impact of dynamic external conditions, including wireless environments and limited computational resources. Finally, we highlight several open challenges in providing timeliness guarantees for real-time GenAI services.
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spellingShingle Redefining Information Freshness: AoGI for Generative AI in 6G Networks
Xiao, Yuquan
Du, Qinghe
Cheng, Wenchi
Karagiannidis, George K.
Nallanathan, Arumugam
Guizani, Mohsen
Systems and Control
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is playing an increasingly important role in enriching and facilitating human life by generating various useful information, of which real-time GenAI is a significant part and has great potential in applications such as real-time robot control, automated driving, augmented reality, etc. There are a variety of information updating processes in real-time GenAI, and the age of information (AoI) is an effective metric for evaluating information freshness. However, due to the diversity and generativity of information in real-time GenAI, it may be incompatible to directly use existing information aging metrics to assess its timeliness. In this article, we introduce a new concept called Age of Generative Information (AoGI) to evaluate the freshness of generative information, which takes into account the information delay caused not only by sampling and transmission, but also by computation. Furthermore, since real-time GenAI services are often supported by mobile-edge-cloud (MEC) collaborative computing in 6G networks and some of the generated information is privacy sensitive, it is recommended that the identities of edge and cloud should always be verified in a zero-trust manner. We introduce the concept of Age of Trust (AoT) to characterise the decay process of their trust level. We also discuss the optimisations of these evolved information aging metrics, focusing on the impact of dynamic external conditions, including wireless environments and limited computational resources. Finally, we highlight several open challenges in providing timeliness guarantees for real-time GenAI services.
title Redefining Information Freshness: AoGI for Generative AI in 6G Networks
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04414