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Token Communications: LLMs Drive New Semantic Communication Paradigm

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Two research papers introduce "token communications" (TokenCom) as a new paradigm for semantic communication, leveraging large language models (LLMs) to improve data transmission efficiency. The first paper, "ToDMA," proposes a large-model-driven scheme for massive token communications, enabling uncoordinated devices to transmit tokenized representations and using LLMs for error correction. The second paper, "Token Communications," frames TokenCom as a framework for cross-modal context-aware semantic communications, highlighting its potential for transformer-based token processing and demonstrating bandwidth efficiency improvements in image transmission. AI

IMPACT Introduces a novel approach to semantic communication, potentially improving bandwidth efficiency and enabling more robust data transmission through LLM integration.

RANK_REASON Two academic papers introducing a new communication paradigm.

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Token Communications: LLMs Drive New Semantic Communication Paradigm

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Li Qiao, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, Zhen Gao, Robert Schober, Deniz G\"und\"uz ·

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

    arXiv:2505.10946v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Token communications (TokenCom) is an emerging generative semantic communication paradigm, where tokens serve as compact representation units across modalities. Their contextual dependencies can be exploited by pretrained …

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Li Qiao, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, Zhen Gao, Rahim Tafazolli, Mehdi Bennis, Dusit Niyato ·

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

    arXiv:2502.12096v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we introduce token communications (TokCom), a large model-driven framework to leverage cross-modal context information in generative semantic communications (GenSC). TokCom is a new paradigm, motivated by th…

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