让语义通信代码本更高效,提升频谱利用率与任务精度。
Spectral Efficiency-Aware Codebook Design for Task-Oriented Semantic Communications
- 引入激活概率优化代码本设计,兼顾任务性能与信道容量。
- 使用Wasserstein距离使激活分布逼近最优信道输入分布。
- 适合研究高效语义通信与信道协同优化的学者。
数字任务导向型语义通信(ToSC)旨在仅传输与任务相关的语义信息,显著降低通信开销。现有方法通常依赖学习得到的代码本对语义特征编码并映射到星座符号,但这些代码本往往激活稀疏,导致频谱效率低下,未能充分利用信道容量。这凸显了一个核心挑战:如何设计既支持特定任务推理,又能逼近信道容量理论极限的代码本。为此,本文构建了一种频谱效率感知的代码本设计框架,将代码本激活概率显式纳入优化过程。在最大化任务性能的同时,引入Wasserstein(WS)距离作为正则化度量,以最小化学习激活分布与最优信道输入分布之间的差距。此外,从生成视角重新诠释了WS理论,使其更契合语义通信的本质。结合上述两点,提出一种基于WS的自适应混合分布方案(WS-DC),学习紧凑、任务驱动且信道感知的潜在表示。实验表明,WS-DC不仅在推理精度上优于现有方法,还显著提升了代码本效率,为接近容量的语义通信系统提供了可行方向。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Digital task-oriented semantic communication (ToSC) aims to transmit only task-relevant information, significantly reducing communication overhead. Existing ToSC methods typically rely on learned codebooks to encode semantic features and map them to constellation symbols. However, these codebooks are often sparsely activated, resulting in low spectral efficiency and underutilization of channel capacity. This highlights a key challenge: how to design a codebook that not only supports task-specific inference but also approaches the theoretical limits of channel capacity. To address this challenge, we construct a spectral efficiency-aware codebook design framework that explicitly incorporates the codebook activation probability into the optimization process. Beyond maximizing task performance, we introduce the Wasserstein (WS) distance as a regularization metric to minimize the gap between the learned activation distribution and the optimal channel input distribution. Furthermore, we reinterpret WS theory from a generative perspective to align with the semantic nature of ToSC. Combining the above two aspects, we propose a WS-based adaptive hybrid distribution scheme, termed WS-DC, which learns compact, task-driven and channel-aware latent representations. Experimental results demonstrate that WS-DC not only outperforms existing approaches in inference accuracy but also significantly improves codebook efficiency, offering a promising direction toward capacity-approaching semantic communication systems.
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