Semantic Communication for Task Execution and Data Reconstruction in Multi-User Scenarios

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Hauptverfasser: Tillmann, Maximilian H. V., Kankari, Avinash, Bockelmann, Carsten, Dekorsy, Armin
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author Tillmann, Maximilian H. V.
Kankari, Avinash
Bockelmann, Carsten
Dekorsy, Armin
author_facet Tillmann, Maximilian H. V.
Kankari, Avinash
Bockelmann, Carsten
Dekorsy, Armin
contents Semantic communication has gained significant attention with the advances in machine learning. Most semantic communication works focus on either task execution or data reconstruction, with some recent works combining the two. In this work, we propose a semantic communication system for concurrent task execution and data reconstruction for a multi-user scenario, which we formulate as the maximization of mutual information. To investigate the trade-off between the two objectives, we formulate a joint objective as a convex combination of task execution and data reconstruction. We show that under specific assumptions, the \ac{SSIM} loss can be obtained from the mutual information maximization objective for data reconstruction, which takes human visual perception into account. Furthermore, for constant resource use, we show that by increasing the weight of the reconstruction objective up to a certain point, the task execution performance can be kept nearly constant, while the data reconstruction can be significantly improved.
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spellingShingle Semantic Communication for Task Execution and Data Reconstruction in Multi-User Scenarios
Tillmann, Maximilian H. V.
Kankari, Avinash
Bockelmann, Carsten
Dekorsy, Armin
Signal Processing
Semantic communication has gained significant attention with the advances in machine learning. Most semantic communication works focus on either task execution or data reconstruction, with some recent works combining the two. In this work, we propose a semantic communication system for concurrent task execution and data reconstruction for a multi-user scenario, which we formulate as the maximization of mutual information. To investigate the trade-off between the two objectives, we formulate a joint objective as a convex combination of task execution and data reconstruction. We show that under specific assumptions, the \ac{SSIM} loss can be obtained from the mutual information maximization objective for data reconstruction, which takes human visual perception into account. Furthermore, for constant resource use, we show that by increasing the weight of the reconstruction objective up to a certain point, the task execution performance can be kept nearly constant, while the data reconstruction can be significantly improved.
title Semantic Communication for Task Execution and Data Reconstruction in Multi-User Scenarios
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20067