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5 papers

cs.IT2026

The Hidden Perception Constraint in Task-Aware Compression

Sahan Liyanaarachchi, Semih Akkoc, Sennur Ulukus +1

With the recent advancements of neural compressors, explicitly incorporating perception constraints into the design of compression schemes has gained significant attention. Traditi…

cs.IT2026

The Rate-Distortion-Deception Tradeoff

Semih Akkoc, Sahan Liyanaarachchi, Sennur Ulukus +1

The problem of finding the optimal compression rate for a given random variable has been traditionally studied under two main constraints: distortion and perception. The distortion…

cs.NI2026

Semantic Leakage and Privacy Preservation in Relay-Assisted Semantic Communications

Yalin E. Sagduyu, Tugba Erpek, Aylin Yener +1

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm in which the transmission of task-relevant information is prioritized over raw data, enabling efficient and robu…

cs.NI2026

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

Yalin E. Sagduyu, Tugba Erpek, Aylin Yener +1

Semantic communication (SemCom) aims to preserve semantic meaning and task-oriented information beyond conventional message recovery over wireless channels. The adoption of SemCom…

cs.NI2025

Privacy-Preserving Semantic Communications via Multi-Task Learning and Adversarial Perturbations

Yalin E. Sagduyu, Tugba Erpek, Aylin Yener +1

Semantic communications conveys task-relevant meaning rather than focusing solely on message reconstruction, improving bandwidth efficiency and robustness for next-generation wirel…