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  1. DuoMind: Enabling Distributed Multi-Robot Coordination with Semantic Communication

    Oct 1, 2026Hanchu Zhou, Dechen Gao, Hang Wang +5Multi-Robot SystemsDistributed Optimization

    University of California, Davis · Microsoft Research · Analog Devices

  2. Token Communication-Assisted Collaborative Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Concepts, Framework, and Opportunities

    Oct 1, 2026Peng Yi, Ying-Chang LiangEmbodied Artificial IntelligenceSemantic Communications

    National Key Laboratory of Wireless Communications, and also with the Center for Intelligent Networking and Communications (CINC), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu 611731, China · Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences and the Center for Intelligent Networking and Communications (CINC), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu 611731, China

  3. Semantic Map Sharing and Capability-Aware Coverage Planning for AI-Native 6G Robotic Coordination

    Sep 29, 2026Abdulqader Dhafer, Qi Wang, Zhou Daniel HaoHeterogeneous Robot TeamsSemantic Communications

    School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, UK · DANiLab, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

  4. Embodied Semantic Communication for Collective Autonomous Agents: A Tutorial on Representation, Wireless Delivery, and Closed-Loop Coordination

    Sep 28, 2026Yizheng Huang, Wensheng Lin, Lixin Li +3Semantic CommunicationsEmbodied Agents

    School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710129, China · School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China · School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China +1

  5. Semantic CSI Feedback for Beam Selection: When Task-Aware Embeddings from Sparse Pilots Outperform Full-Bandwidth Reconstruction

    Sep 16, 2026Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio, Konstantinos Vandikas, Aneta Vulgarakis FeljanChannel State InformationSemantic Communications

    Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden

  6. Storage-Scalable Progressive Semantic Communication via Knowledge-Base Reuse

    Sep 9, 2026Heng Zhu, Ye Liu, Kun Zhu +1Semantic CommunicationsReusable Knowledge

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China

  7. ComVLA: Communication-Aware Split Inference for VLA Models in 6G-Connected Robotics

    Sep 7, 2026Boliang Liu, Wint Yi Poe, Jingyun Di +2Vision-Language-Action FrameworkSemantic Communications

    Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany · Huawei Heisenberg Research Center, Munich, Germany

  8. Cooperative Multi-Task Semantic Communication for Joint Classification and Regression Tasks

    Sep 3, 2026Ahmad Halimi Razlighi, Mohammad Siddiqur Rahman, Maximilian H. V. Tillmann +2Multi--Task LearningSemantic Communications

    Department of Communications Engineering, University of Bremen, Germany

  9. Token-Oriented Semantic Communication with Pretrained Vision Transformers

    Aug 26, 2026Jiwoong Im, Minwoo Kim, Jaeho Lee +2Token CompressionSelf-Supervised Vision Transformers

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, South Korea

  10. Heterogeneity-Aware Belief Synchronization for Semantic Communication in AI-Native 6G Networks

    Aug 13, 2026Muhammad Hannan Akram, Muhammad Abubakar Rashid, Wassi Haider Kabir +3Semantic CommunicationsEdge Devices

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad 44000, Pakistan · Department of Electronic Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 17104, South Korea · CONNECT Centre and the Department of Computer Science, Munster Technological University, Ireland

  11. A Semantic Communication Approach to Fiducial Marker Processing in 5G-Enabled Edge SLAM

    Aug 10, 2026Boris Radovanovic, Vukan Ninkovic, Katarina Vidojevic +2Robotic PerceptionSimultaneous Localization And Mapping

    Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia · The Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia, Serbia

  12. When Robots Exchange Meaning: A Demo of Goal-Oriented Semantic Communications for Collaborative Robotics

    Jul 30, 2026Peizheng Li, Xinyi Lin, Sajida Gufran +1Semantic Communications

    Bristol Research and Innovation Laboratory, Toshiba Europe Ltd., U.K.

  13. Domain-Generalized Adaptive Semantic Communication for Collaborative Perception

    Jul 27, 2026Fan Gao, Youzheng Wang, Ning GeV2XCollaborative Perception

    Department of Electronic Engineering, BNRist, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  14. Restoration Flow Matching-Based Channel Refinement and Equalization Correction for MIMO Semantic Communications

    Jul 26, 2026Wenkai Liu, Nan Ma, Jianqiao Chen +3Contrastive Flow MatchingMultiple-Input Multiple-Output

    State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China · ZGC Institute of Ubiquitous-X Innovation and Applications, Beijing 100876, China · Cooperative Medianet Innovation Center (CMIC) and the Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

  15. Semantic-Aware Task Clustering for Constructive and Cooperative Multi-Tasking

    Jul 23, 2026Ahmad Halimi Razlighi, Maximilian H. V. Tillmann, Edgar Beck +2Semantic CommunicationsMulti--Task Learning

    Department of Communications Engineering, University of Bremen, Germany · Communication Systems Group, Paderborn University, 33098 Paderborn, Germany

  16. Toward Semantic Communication for Real-time Mobile 3D Reconstruction

    Jul 17, 2026Fangzhou Zhao, Yao Sun, Xuesong Liu +33D ReconstructionRobust Geometric Model Estimation

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China · James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K. · School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 257061, China

  17. A VAE-Driven Multi-Task Satellite-Aided Semantic Communication Framework for 6G-Enabled Connected Autonomous Vehicles

    Jul 15, 2026S. M. Abtahiul Alam, Niloy Das, Apurba Adhikary +3Semantic CommunicationsAutomated Vehicles

    Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh · Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si 17104, Republic of Korea · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004-4005, USA +1

  18. Generative Communications: Overview, Technologies, and Trends

    Jul 10, 2026Wenjun Zhang, Zhiyong Chen, Tong Wu +4Generative Artificial IntelligenceSemantic Communications

    Cooperative Medianet Innovation Center and the School of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

  19. Semantic Leakage and Privacy Preservation in Relay-Assisted Semantic Communications

    Jun 30, 2026Yalin E. Sagduyu, Tugba Erpek, Aylin Yener +1Semantic CommunicationsData Leakage

    1Nexcepta, Gaithersburg, MD, USA · 2The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA · University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

  20. Exploiting Overlapping Fields of View for Redundancy-Aware Uplink Transmission in Vehicular 6G

    Jun 30, 2026Hamidreza Mazandarani, Masoud Shokrnezhad, Tarik Taleb +1Semantic CommunicationsPower Allocation

    Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany · ICTFicial Oy, Espoo, Finland · TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany +1

  21. Minimizing Quantized Semantic Age of Information (QSAoI) in Foundation Model-Based Semantic Communications

    Jun 30, 2026Huanyu Zhang, Yulin Hu, Xiaopeng Yuan +2Semantic CommunicationsSource-Channel Coding

    INDA Chair, RWTH Aachen University, Germany · School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, China · Department of Digital Communication Systems, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

  22. Wireless Backdoor Attack and Defense for Semantic Communications over Multiple Access Channel

    Jun 29, 2026Yalin E. Sagduyu, Tugba Erpek, Aylin Yener +1Semantic CommunicationsWireless Communications

    Nexcepta, Gaithersburg, MD, USA · The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA · University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

  23. Information Dynamics of Language Communication

    Jun 29, 2026Leonardo S. Goodall, Andrea I. Luppi, Pedro A. M. MedianoInformation-Flow ControlSemantic Entropy

    Calleva Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK · St John’s College, University of Cambridge, UK · Montr´eal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada +2

  24. Semantic-Aware Generative Image Transmission for Resource-Constrained Visual IoT Systems

    Jun 24, 2026Chenyang Zhang, Changwang Liu, Jinqi Zhu +4Semantic CommunicationsEfficient Semantic Segmentation

    School of Computer and Information Engineering, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China · School of Information Science and Engineering, Linyi University, Linyi 276000, China

  25. Implicit Semantic-Aware Communication Based on Hypergraph Reasoning

    Jun 18, 2026Yiwei Liao, Shurui Tu, Yong Xiao +2Semantic CommunicationsHypergraphs

    China Electric Power Research Institute Co., Ltd, Wuhan 430074, China, and National Key Laboratory for Power Grid Environmental Protection, Wuhan, China · School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China +3

  26. Explainable Task-Oriented Token Communication for AI-Native 6G Networks

    Jun 12, 2026Feibo Jiang, Lei Mao, Li Dong +3Semantic CommunicationsCross-Modal Attention

  27. JSCGC: Joint Source-Channel-Generation Coding for Wireless Generative Communications

    Jun 11, 2026Tong Wu, Zhiyong Chen, Guo Lu +4Source-Channel CodingRate-Distortion Theory

    Cooperative Medianet Innovation Center, the School of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

  28. Learning to Choose: An Empowerment-Guided Multi-Agent System with semantic communication for Adaptive Method Selection

    May 28, 2026Geremy Loachamín-Suntaxi, Robert Lazar, Dimitrios G. Giovanis +2Model-Based Multi-Agent SystemsSemantic Communications

    School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zographos Campus, 15780, Attiki, Greece · Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Esch-sur-Alzette, L-4362, Luxembourg

  29. Recursive Vision Transformer with Dynamic Depth and Width Adjustment for Resource-Efficient Image Semantic Communication

    May 27, 2026Zhilong Zhang, Xinhui Zhang, Gongyu Jin +3Self-Supervised Vision TransformersVision Transformer

    Beijing Laboratory of Advanced Information Network, and the Beijing Key Laboratory of Network System Architecture and Convergence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

  30. TONIC: Token-Centric Semantic Communication for Task-Oriented Wireless Systems

    May 20, 2026Sige Liu, Kezhi WangSemantic CommunicationsWireless Communications

    Department of Computer Science, Brunel University London, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, U.K.

  31. Quantum Machine Learning-based 6G edge Network: Enabling Adaptive Communication and Model Aggregation

    May 18, 2026Wenjing Xiao, Jiatai Yan, Chenglong Shi +5V2XSemantic Communications

    School of Computer, Electronics and Information, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China, and also with the Guangxi Key Laboratory of Multimedia Communications and Network Technology, Guangxi 530004, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China, and also with the Pazhou Laboratory, Guangzhou 510330, China · Qatar Center for Quantum Computing, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar +1

  32. World Model-Enabled Causal Digital Twins for Semantic Communications in Physical AI Systems

    May 15, 2026Lingyi Wang, Tingyu Shui, Walid Saad +1Semantic CommunicationsDigital Twins

    Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Alexandria, VA, 22305, USA · Research and Innovation Labs, InterDigital Communications Inc., New York, NY 10120, USA

  33. Not All Symbols Are Equal: Importance-Aware Constellation Design for Semantic Communication

    May 14, 2026Albert Shaju, Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas, Mayukh Roy ChowdhurySemantic CommunicationsSource-Channel Coding

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA. · Nokia Bell Labs, Bengaluru, India.

  34. On Privacy-Preserving Image Transmission in Low-Altitude Networks: A Swin Transformer-Based Framework with Federated Learning

    May 12, 2026Kexin Zhang, Lixin Li, Yuna Yan +5Unmanned Aerial VehiclesSemantic Communications

    School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China · DecoreX Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd., Xi’an 710075, China · Samsung AI Center, Cambridge CB1 2JH, UK +2

  35. ChronoSC: Task-Oriented Semantic Communication via Temporal-to-Color Encoding

    May 11, 2026Phuc H. Nguyen, Trung T. Nguyen, Quy N. Duong +1Video CompressionSemantic Communications

    Smart Green Transformation Center (GREEN-X), VinUniversity, Vietnam. · School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

  36. SANEmerg: An Emergent Communication Framework for Semantic-aware Agentic AI Networking

    May 7, 2026Yong Xiao, Haoran Zhou, Yujie Zhou +1Semantic CommunicationsPrivate Signals

    School of Elect. Inform. & Commun., Huazhong Univ. of Science & Technology, China · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China · Pazhou Laboratory (Huangpu), Guangzhou, China +1

  37. When Semantic Communication Meets Queueing: Cross-Layer Latency and Task Fidelity Optimization

    May 6, 2026Yalin E. Sagduyu, Tugba ErpekSemantic CommunicationsPower Allocation

    Nexcepta, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

  38. Adaptive Dual-Path Framework for Covert Semantic Communication

    May 5, 2026Xi Yu, Weicai Li, Lin Yin +1Semantic CommunicationsDual-Path Network

    School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing 100876, China · Center for Target Cognition Information Processing Science and Technology, and the Key Laboratory of Modern Measurement and Control Technology, Ministry of Education, both at Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing, China

  39. Context-Aware Wireless Token Communication via Joint Token Masking and Detection

    May 4, 2026Junyong Shin, Joohyuk Park, Yongjeong Oh +3Semantic Communications

    Department of Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Republic of Korea · Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372 · School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

  40. Evolving Token Communication with Parametric Memory Network

    May 3, 2026Weixuan Chen, Qianqian YangSemantic CommunicationsParametric Memory

    College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  41. Progressive Semantic Communication for Efficient Edge-Cloud Vision-Language Models

    Apr 29, 2026Cyril Shih-Huan Hsu, Wig Yuan-Cheng Cheng, Chrysa PapagianniEdge PlatformsRecent Vision-Language Models

    Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. · Open-EP Community, Taoyuan City 330049, Taiwan (R.O.C.).

  42. FED-FSTQ: Fisher-Guided Token Quantization for Communication-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning of LLMs on Edge Devices

    Apr 28, 2026Changyu Li, Shuanghong Huang, Jiashen Liu +5Large Language Model QuantizationFedavg

    School of Computing and Information Technology, Great Bay University, Dongguan, China · Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China · University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K. +3

  43. SPAT: A Semantic Port-Aware Adaptive-Rate Transmission Protocol for Semantic Communication

    Apr 28, 2026Yunhao Wang, Shuai Ma, Bin Shen +4Semantic CommunicationsPower Allocation

    School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Peking University, Shenzhen 518055, China · Department of Networked Intelligence, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518066, China · School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China +3

  44. Toward Polymorphic Backdoor against Semantic Communication via Intensity-Based Poisoning

    Apr 25, 2026Xiao Yang, Yuni Lai, Gaolei Li +4Fewer Surprising BackdoorsWhite-Box Spectral-Subspace-Guided Attack

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Integrated Administration Technologies for Information Security, Shanghai, China · Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, USA

  45. Semantic Error Correction and Decoding for Short Block Codes

    Apr 24, 2026Jiafu Hao, Chentao Yue, Wanchun Liu +2Source-Channel CodingSemantic Communications

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

  46. Sema: Semantic Transport for Real-Time Multimodal Agents

    Apr 22, 2026Jiaying Meng, Bojie LiSemantic CommunicationsMultimodal Agents

    Unaffiliated · Pine AI

  47. Generative Semantic Communication via Alternating Dual-Domain Posterior Sampling

    Apr 18, 2026Shunpu Tang, Qianqian YangSemantic CommunicationsPosterior Sampling

    College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  48. Adaptive Semantic Communication for Wireless Image Transmission Leveraging Mixture-of-Experts Mechanism

    Apr 3, 2026Haowen Wan, Qianqian YangSemantic CommunicationsLearned Image Compression

    Polytechnic Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  49. SDGIC: A Semantic Disambiguation-Guided Generative Image Compression Method for Ultra-Low Bitrates

    Dec 6, 2025Kaile Wang, Lijun He, Haisheng Fu +2Learned Image CompressionGenerative Image Compression

    School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

  50. Diffusion-aided Task-oriented Semantic Communications with Model Inversion Attack

    Jun 24, 2025Xuesong Wang, Mo Li, Xingyan Shi +2Semantic CommunicationsDiffusion Inversion

    School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518172, China

  51. ToDMA: Large Model-Driven Massive Token Communications for Semantic Multiple Access

    May 16, 2025Li Qiao, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, Zhen Gao +2Semantic Communications

    The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · 5GIC & 6GIC, Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), University of Surrey, GU2 7XH Guildford, U.K. · Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China +2

  52. Token Communications: A Large Model-Driven Framework for Cross-modal Context-aware Semantic Communications

    Feb 17, 2025Li Qiao, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, Zhen Gao +3Semantic CommunicationsToken Compression

    School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · 5GIC & 6GIC, Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom · Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland +1

  53. Take What You Need: Flexible Multi-Task Semantic Communications with Channel Adaptation

    Feb 12, 2025Xiang Chen, Shuying Gan, Chenyuan Feng +2Semantic CommunicationsChannel Modeling

    School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, China · EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France · Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

  54. Bridging Neural Networks and Wireless Systems with MIMO-OFDM Semantic Communications

    Jan 28, 2025Hanju Yoo, Dongha Choi, Yonghwi Kim +4Orthogonal Frequency-Division MultiplexingSemantic Communications

    School of Integrated Technology, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA