根据语义重要性重新设计调制星座,让关键信息更抗干扰。
Not All Symbols Are Equal: Importance-Aware Constellation Design for Semantic Communication

- 联合语义与物理层设计,按任务重要性分配符号位置。
- 在高谱效下实现近100%关键符号保护率,标准方案仅50%。
- 适用于图像、语音等多任务场景,无需调整模型。
面向目标导向传输的语义通信系统需同时通过源压缩和物理层映射保护任务相关信息。现有方法将星座设计与语义编码分离,导致关键符号与无关符号面临相同误码率。本文提出一种联合语义-物理层框架:包含向量量化变分自编码器提取离散语义概念、基于任务相关性的语义重要性指标(SCI)对概念评分,以及基于深度强化学习的动态传输子集选择器。在物理层,学习得到的语义感知M-QAM星座根据联合共现统计与SCI得分安排符号位置,区别于标准M-QAM的均匀间距与格雷编码。引入语义符号脆弱性(SSV)与语义保护概率(SPP)量化关键符号误码暴露程度,理论证明:当源数据语义重要性非均匀且共现统计不均时,任何格雷编码星座在加权SSV上严格劣于本文方法。仿真显示,所提星座在4-QAM至1024-QAM下均实现近100% SPP,而标准方案在高谱效下仅为50%;在21:1压缩比下语义质量仍高于0.9,且在MNIST、Fashion-MNIST和FSDD数据集上无需修改即可泛化。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Semantic communication systems for goal-oriented transmission must protect task-relevant information not only through source compression but also via physical layer mapping. Existing approaches decouple constellation design and semantic encoding, exposing critical symbols to channel errors at the same rate as irrelevant ones. Contrary to this, in this paper, a joint semantic-physical layer framework is proposed, which is composed of a vector quantized-variational autoencoder that extracts discrete latent concepts, a semantic criticality indicator (SCI) that scores each concept by task relevance, and a deep reinforcement learning agent that dynamically selects the transmission subset based on instantaneous channel conditions. At the physical layer, a learned semantic-aware M -QAM constellation assigns symbol positions according to joint co-occurrence statistics and SCI scores, departing from the uniform spacing and Gray coding of standard M -QAM which minimizes average BER without regard for semantic content. We introduce a novel semantic symbol vulnerability (SSV) metric and a semantic protection probability (SPP) to quantify the exposure of task-critical symbols to decoding errors, and prove that any Gray-coded constellation is strictly suboptimal in SCI-Weighted SSV whenever the source exhibits non-uniform semantic importance and co-occurrence statistics. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed constellation achieves near 100% SPP across modulation orders from 4-QAM to 1024-QAM versus 50% for standard constellations at high spectral efficiency, a 21:1 compression ratio with semantic quality above 0.9, generalizing across MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, and FSDD without modification.
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