为低功耗边缘网络设计感知信道的语义编码,提升通信效率与任务准确率。
Less Signals, More Understanding: Channel-Capacity Codebook Design for Digital Task-Oriented Semantic Communication
- 基于沃尔什斯坦距离正则化目标,融合信道特性优化离散语义码本
- 在不同信噪比下实现任务准确率显著提升,通信效率更优
- 适合资源受限的边缘智能场景,推动语义通信落地应用
离散表征已成为面向任务的语义通信(ToSC)中强大的工具,提供紧凑、可解释且高效的表示,特别适用于低功耗边缘智能场景。其固有的数字特性与硬件友好部署及鲁棒的存储/传输协议无缝契合。然而,现有ToSC框架常将语义感知的离散映射与底层信道特性及任务需求脱节,导致通信性能不佳、任务效用下降,且在变化的无线条件下泛化能力有限。此外,传统码本设计普遍忽视信道感知,限制了在资源受限条件下语义符号选择的有效性。为此,本文提出一种面向低功耗边缘网络的信道感知离散语义编码框架。通过引入沃尔什斯坦正则化目标,使离散码激活与最优输入分布对齐,从而提升语义保真度、鲁棒性及任务准确性。在多种信噪比(SNR)条件下的推理任务实验表明,该方法在准确率和通信效率上均取得显著提升。本工作为离散语义与信道优化的融合提供了新思路,推动语义通信在下一代数字基础设施中的广泛应用。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Discrete representation has emerged as a powerful tool in task-oriented semantic communication (ToSC), offering compact, interpretable, and efficient representations well-suited for low-power edge intelligence scenarios. Its inherent digital nature aligns seamlessly with hardware-friendly deployment and robust storage/transmission protocols. However, despite its strengths, current ToSC frameworks often decouple semantic-aware discrete mapping from the underlying channel characteristics and task demands. This mismatch leads to suboptimal communication performance, degraded task utility, and limited generalization under variable wireless conditions. Moreover, conventional designs frequently overlook channel-awareness in codebook construction, restricting the effectiveness of semantic symbol selection under constrained resources. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a channel-aware discrete semantic coding framework tailored for low-power edge networks. Leveraging a Wasserstein-regularized objective, our approach aligns discrete code activations with optimal input distributions, thereby improving semantic fidelity, robustness, and task accuracy. Extensive experiments on the inference tasks across diverse signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regimes show that our method achieves notable gains in accuracy and communication efficiency. This work provides new insights into integrating discrete semantics and channel optimization, paving the way for the widespread adoption of semantic communication in future digital infrastructures.
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