The paper introduces ACV-Gate, an adaptive framework for generative image communication that selectively evaluates candidate semantic tokens to reduce encoder computation while maintaining reconstruction quality. ACV-Gate uses a set-aware student model trained on terminal advantages and regrets to rank tokens, and a selective refinement mechanism that limits exact evaluations to a bounded candidate set, controlled by cost-based thresholds. Experiments on CIFAR-10, STL-10, and 384×384 images show that ACV-Gate improves PSNR by up to 0.636 dB at 0.20 bpp and reduces candidate evaluations to about 27.6% of the exact-full method.
arXiv:2608. 16192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative visual-token communication reduces transmission load by sending only selected discrete tokens and reconstructing missing content at the receiver.
arXiv:2608. 09176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual token compression for vision--language models (VLMs) has largely relied on criteria such as attention, redundancy, and uncertainty to maximize average accuracy under a fixed compute budget, implicitly assuming that all errors carry equal cost.
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.
arXiv:2608. 15694v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conditional image-to-image generators are single-shot: they map input features to an output in one forward pass and treat it as final, with no opportunity to improve on it.
The paper introduces TokCode, a token encoding framework that enhances robustness in generative semantic communication by restructuring redundancy in the semantic domain. TokCode leverages a lightweight adapter to transform a large language model into a token encoder, avoiding the need for a dedicated deep model. A channel-quality-aware distillation method (CADET) trains the adapter across diverse erasure rates, producing a reconfigurable low‑rank adapter that enables efficient reinforcement learning and achieves significant improvements in image similarity over existing receiver‑side recovery benchmarks.
arXiv:2607. 25527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unifying visual understanding and generation in one model holds immense promise, but remains challenging and expensive due to heavy compute and data demands and conflicts between the visual features needed for these two capabilities.
arXiv:2608. 12239v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Use this plain-text version for the arXiv abstract field: Learned image compression (LIC) models achieve strong rate-distortion performance but are hindered by high computational complexity and encoding-decoding mismatches across heterogeneous hardware platforms.
arXiv:2609.39296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video semantic communication has attracted increasing attention as a promising approach to improving video transmission efficiency. However, most exist...
arXiv:2608.28687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models have significantly improved the performance ceiling of image lossy compression at low bitrates by exploiting learned priors. However,...
PACE introduces a training‑free Condense‑and‑Extract framework that speeds up Vision‑Language Model inference by first adaptively downsampling visual inputs before encoding and then selectively retaining essential tokens during decoding. The Adaptive Pixel Compressor (APC) reduces encoder workload while preserving global context, and the Dynamic Dual‑Attention Extractor (DDAE) keeps task‑critical details by fusing visual and language signals. Applied to Qwen2.5‑VL‑7B, PACE maintains 93.8% of performance using only 10% of visual tokens, achieving a 3.1× speedup in time to first token.
arXiv:2607. 02612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Transformers achieve strong image classification accuracy but process all image regions with nearly the same computation, even when many regions are redundant or uninformative.
The paper introduces RAE-CoD, a diffusion-based compression method that operates in a representation autoencoder space to preserve recognizable content even at extremely low bitrates. It addresses the problem of semantic collapse observed in existing codecs when the bitrate approaches zero, showing that reconstruction losses conflict with semantic objectives and that VAE diffusion models lose efficiency in preserving semantics. Experiments on MSCOCO-30K demonstrate that RAE-CoD outperforms competitors, reducing VFM feature MSE and Fréchet Distance ratios by at least 25.7% and 69.1% at 0.001–0.008 bpp while maintaining stable recognizability and quality.