A mathematical theory of semantic communication

K Niu, P Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.13387, 2024 - arxiv.org
The year 1948 witnessed the historic moment of the birth of classic information theory (CIT).
Guided by CIT, modern communication techniques have approached the theoretic …

Semantic Communication: A Survey of Its Theoretical Development

G Xin, P Fan, KB Letaief - Entropy, 2024 - mdpi.com
In recent years, semantic communication has received significant attention from both
academia and industry, driven by the growing demands for ultra-low latency and high …

A theory of semantic information

Y Zhong - China communications, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The information really useful to humans must be the trinity of its three components: the form
termed syntactic information, the meaning termed semantic information, and the utility …

Towards semantic communications: A paradigm shift

K Niu, J Dai, S Yao, S Wang, Z Si, X Qin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The last seventy years have witnessed the transition of communication from Shannon's
theoretical concept to current high-efficient practical systems. Classical communication …

A paradigm shift toward semantic communications

K Niu, J Dai, S Yao, S Wang, Z Si… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The last 70 years have witnessed the transition of communication from Shannon's
theoretical concept to current high-efficiency practical systems. Classical communication …

Rate-distortion theory for strategic semantic communication

Y Xiao, X Zhang, Y Li, G Shi… - 2022 IEEE Information …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper analyzes the fundamental limit of the strategic semantic communication problem
in which a transmitter obtains a limited number of indirect observations of an intrinsic …

Towards a theory of semantic communication

J Bao, P Basu, M Dean, C Partridge… - 2011 IEEE Network …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies methods of quantitatively measuring semantic information in
communication. We review existing work on quantifying semantic information, then …

What is semantic communication? A view on conveying meaning in the era of machine intelligence

Q Lan, D Wen, Z Zhang, Q Zeng, X Chen… - Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the 1940s, Claude Shannon developed the information theory focusing on quantifying the
maximum data rate that can be supported by a communication channel. Guided by this …

EXK-SC: A semantic communication model based on information framework expansion and knowledge collision

G Xin, P Fan - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Semantic communication is not focused on improving the accuracy of transmitted symbols,
but is concerned with expressing the expected meaning that the symbol sequence exactly …

Information-theoretic limits on compression of semantic information

J Tang, Q Yang, Z Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.02305, 2023 - arxiv.org
As conventional communication systems based on classic information theory have closely
approached the limits of Shannon channel capacity, semantic communication has been …