21 accepted papers
Modern video codecs and learning-based approaches struggle for semantic reconstruction at extremely low bit-rates due to reliance on low-level spatiotemporal redundancies. Generative models, especially diffusion models, offer a new paradigm for video compression by leveraging high-level semantic und…
The restless multi-armed bandit (RMAB) framework is a popular model with applications across a wide variety of fields. However, its solution is hindered by the exponentially growing state space (with respect to the number of arms) and the combinatorial action space, making traditional reinforcement
We consider image transmission via deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) over multi-hop additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels by training a DeepJSCC encoder-decoder pair with a pre-trained deep hash distillation (DHD) module to semantically cluster images, facilitating security-oriente…
Uniform-reward reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), which trains a single reward model to represent the preferences of all annotators, fails to capture the diversity of opinions across sub-populations, inadvertently favoring dominant groups. The state-of-the-art, MaxMin-RLHF, addresses
Collaborative perception (CP) is emerging as a promising solution to the inherent limitations of stand-alone intelligence. However, current wireless communication systems are unable to support feature-level and raw-level collaborative algorithms due to their enormous bandwidth demands. In this paper
Acquiring and utilizing accurate channel state information (CSI) is crucial for realizing the benefits of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology. Current CSI feedback approaches improve precision by employing advanced deep-learning methods to learn representative CSI features for a…
We propose the use of adversarial wireless jamming to regularise the latent space of an autoencoder to match a diagonal Gaussian distribution. We consider the minimisation of a mean squared error distortion, where a jammer attempts to disrupt the recovery of a Gaussian source encoded and transmitted…
Joint source-channel coding schemes based on deep neural networks (DeepJSCC) have recently achieved remarkable performance for wireless image transmission. However, these methods usually focus only on the distortion of the reconstructed signal at the receiver side with respect to the source at the t…
The task of preserving privacy while ensuring efficient communication is a fundamental challenge in federated learning. In this work, we tackle this challenge in the trusted aggregator model, and propose a solution that achieves both objectives simultaneously. We show that employing a quantization s…
We study privacy-aware communication over a wiretap channel using end-to-end learning. Alice wants to transmit a source signal to Bob over a binary symmetric channel, while passive eavesdropper Eve tries to infer some sensitive attribute of Alice’s source based on its overheard signal. Since we usua…
We consider a user releasing her data containing some personal information in return of a service. We model user’s personal information as two correlated random variables, one of them, called the secret variable, is to be kept private, while the other, called the useful variable, is to be disclosed…
In conventional federated learning (FL), differential privacy (DP) guarantees can be obtained by injecting additional noise to local model updates before transmitting to the parameter server (PS). In the wireless FL scenario, we show that the privacy of the system can be boosted by exploiting over-t…
We propose a data-driven secure wireless communication scheme, in which the goal is to transmit a signal to a legitimate receiver with minimal distortion, while keeping some information about the signal private from an eavesdropping adversary. When the data distribution is known, the optimal trade-o…
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems require downlink channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS) to better utilize the available spatial diversity and multiplexing gains. However, in a frequency division duplex (FDD) massive MIMO system, CSI feedback overhead degrades…
Motivated by surveillance applications with wireless cameras or drones, we consider the problem of image retrieval over a wireless channel. Conventional systems apply lossy compression on query images to reduce the data that must be transmitted over a bandwidth and power limited wireless link. We fi…
We consider wireless transmission of images in the presence of channel output feedback, by introducing an autoencoder-based deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme. We achieve impressive results in terms of the end-to-end reconstruction quality for fixed length transmission, and in terms of t…
We consider federated edge learning (FEEL), where mobile users (MUs) collaboratively learn a global model by sharing local updates on the model parameters rather than their datasets, with the help of a mobile base station (MBS). We optimize the resource allocation among MUs to reduce the communicati…
We study scheduling of computation tasks across n workers in a large scale distributed learning problem. Computation speeds of the workers are assumed to be heterogeneous and unknown to the master, and redundant computations are assigned to the workers in order to tolerate straggling workers. We con…
We propose a novel joint source and channel coding (JSCC) scheme for wireless image transmission that departs from the conventional use of explicit source and channel codes for compression and error correction, and directly maps the image pixel values to the complex-valued channel input signal. Our…
Coded computation techniques provide robustness against straggling servers in distributed computing, with the following limitations: First, they increase decoding complexity. Second, they ignore computations carried out by straggling servers; and they are typically designed to recover the full gradi…
We study the privacy-cost trade-off in a smart meter (SM) system with a renewable energy source (RES) and a finite-capacity rechargeable battery (RB). Privacy is measured by the mutual information rate between the energy demand and the energy received from the grid, where the latter also determines…