arXiv Machine Learning

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

arXiv Computer Vision
6d ago

Harnessing Domain Specialists in Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts for Efficient Adaptation

The paper investigates whether the sparsity of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models leads to intrinsic semantic organization across modalities and domains. It shows that experts naturally specialize semantically even without explicit modular training. The authors propose ExpertLens, a data‑free method that decodes router weights to identify domain‑specialized experts, enabling selective fine‑tuning that matches or exceeds full fine‑tuning while updating only 21.7–47.0% of parameters and achieving a 4.0× speedup, outperforming LoRA in both performance and efficiency.

By Damiano Marsili, Raphi Kang, Aditya Mehta, Pietro Perona, Georgia Gkioxari
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Token-Oriented Semantic Communication with Pretrained Vision Transformers

The paper introduces a token‑oriented semantic communication framework that transmits only task‑relevant image latents instead of full token embeddings, reducing communication cost and improving interoperability. It leverages a spatial alignment between vision transformer patch tokens and learned image compression latents, enabling token‑level relevance estimation and selective transmission. Experiments on ImageNet demonstrate a superior rate–accuracy trade‑off compared to existing semantic communication methods and hand‑crafted codecs.

By Jiwoong Im, Minwoo Kim, Jaeho Lee, Yo-Seb Jeon, Yongjune Kim
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

A Unified Adaptive Feature Composition Framework for Multi-Task Generalization in Wireless Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 10277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Though wireless foundation models (WFMs) have shown strong potential in learning universal channel representations, their adaptation to various downstream tasks remains constrained by existing paradigms.

By Yuxuan Shi, Tingting Yang, Kangning Ma, Liwen Jing, Yuwei Wang, Mengfan Zheng, Li Sun
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

MASKerade: Token-Routed Mask Experts for Dense-to-MoE Upcycling

MASKerade is a new dense‑to‑MoE training method that learns experts as sparse subnetworks of a frozen pretrained feed‑forward network (FFN) using binary masks. A token‑level router selects which masked FFNs to execute, and both the router and mask scores are jointly optimized while the underlying FFN weights remain unchanged. In experiments on five vision‑language benchmarks with Qwen and Gemma backbones, a configuration of four 2:4 experts with top‑2 routing achieved the best performance among compared baselines, demonstrating that mask learning over frozen weights is a practical alternative for constructing token‑routed MoE experts.

By Mingyuan Zhang, Yue Bai, Zhongruo Wang, Yupin Huang, Yiyang Huang, Hailing Wang, Huimin Zeng, Yun Fu