提出CLAD方法,让通信只传有用信息并保护隐私。
Contrastive Learning and Adversarial Disentanglement for Privacy-Aware Task-Oriented Semantic Communication
- 用对比学习抓任务相关特征,对抗训练剥离无关信息。
- 在多个任务上性能超越现有方法,隐私保护更优。
- 适合6G物联网中需高效低耗、保护用户隐私的场景。
面向任务的语义通信系统是下一代网络中实现高效智能数据传输的有前景方法,仅传输与特定任务相关的有效信息。这在6G物联网(6G-IoT)场景中尤为重要,因带宽受限、延迟要求高且数据隐私敏感。然而,现有方法难以充分解耦任务相关与无关信息,导致隐私泄露和性能不佳。为此,本文提出受信息瓶颈启发的方法CLAD(对比学习与对抗解耦)。CLAD利用对比学习有效捕获任务相关特征,同时通过对抗解耦机制剔除任务无关信息。此外,针对编码特征向量最小性缺乏可靠量化方法的问题,引入信息保留指数(IRI),作为编码特征与输入间互信息的代理指标,反映表征的最小性与信息量,对隐私保护与带宽高效6G-IoT系统具有重要意义。大量实验表明,CLAD在语义提取、任务性能、隐私保护和IRI方面均优于当前先进基线,是构建负责任、高效、可信6G-IoT服务的有力组件。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Task-oriented semantic communication systems have emerged as a promising approach to achieving efficient and intelligent data transmission in next-generation networks, where only information relevant to a specific task is communicated. This is particularly important in 6G-enabled Internet of Things (6G-IoT) scenarios, where bandwidth constraints, latency requirements, and data privacy are critical. However, existing methods struggle to fully disentangle task-relevant and task-irrelevant information, leading to privacy concerns and suboptimal performance. To address this, we propose an information-bottleneck inspired method, named CLAD (contrastive learning and adversarial disentanglement). CLAD utilizes contrastive learning to effectively capture task-relevant features while employing adversarial disentanglement to discard task-irrelevant information. Additionally, due to the absence of reliable and reproducible methods to quantify the minimality of encoded feature vectors, we introduce the Information Retention Index (IRI), a comparative metric used as a proxy for the mutual information between the encoded features and the input. The IRI reflects how minimal and informative the representation is, making it highly relevant for privacy-preserving and bandwidth-efficient 6G-IoT systems. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CLAD outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in terms of semantic extraction, task performance, privacy preservation, and IRI, making it a promising building block for responsible, efficient and trustworthy 6G-IoT services.
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