基于深度学习（DL）的联合源通道编码（DEEPJSCC）的最新进展导致了语义通信的新范式。基于DEEPJSCC的语义通信的两个显着特征是直接从源信号中对语义感知功能的开发以及这些功能的离散时间模拟传输（DTAT）。与传统的数字通信相比，与DEEPJSCC的语义通信在接收器上提供了出色的重建性能，并具有较高的频道质量降解，但在传输信号中也表现出较大的峰值功率比（PAPR）。一个空旷的问题是，DeepJSCC的收益是否来自高PAPR连续振幅信号带来的额外自由。在本文中，我们通过在图像传输的应用中探索三种PAPR还原技术来解决这个问题。我们确认，基于DEEPJSCC的语义通信的出色图像重建性能可以保留，而传输的PAPR被抑制至可接受的水平。该观察是在实用语义通信系统中实施DEEPJSCC的重要一步。

我们考虑了自主渠道访问（AutoCA）的问题，其中一组终端试图以分布式方式通过常见的无线通道发现具有访问点（AP）的通信策略。由于拓扑不规则和终端的通信范围有限，因此对AutoCA的实用挑战是隐藏的终端问题，在无线网络中臭名昭著，可以使吞吐量和延迟性能恶化。为了应对挑战，本文提出了一种新的多代理深钢筋学习范式，该学习范式被称为Madrl-HT，在存在隐藏码头的情况下为Autoca量身定制。 MADRL-HT利用拓扑见解，并将每个终端的观察空间转变为独立于终端数量的可扩展形式。为了补偿部分可观察性，我们提出了一种外观机制，以便终端可以从载体感知的通道状态以及AP的反馈中推断出其隐藏终端的行为。提出了基于窗口的全球奖励功能，从而指示终端在学习过程中平衡终端的传输机会，以最大程度地提高系统吞吐量。广泛的数值实验验证了我们的解决方案基准测试的优越性能，并通过避免碰撞（CSMA/CA）方案对旧的载体 - 义值访问。

基于深度学习的渠道代码设计最近引起了人们的兴趣，可以替代传统的编码算法，尤其是对于现有代码不提供有效解决方案的渠道。通过反馈渠道进行的沟通就是一个这样的问题，最近通过采用各种深度学习体系结构来获得有希望的结果。在本文中，我们为反馈渠道介绍了一种新颖的学习辅助代码设计，称为广义块注意反馈（GBAF）代码，i）使用模块化体系结构，可以使用不同的神经网络体系结构实现；ii）与现有设计相比，错误的可能性提高了误顺序；iii）可以以所需的代码速率传输。

Ultra-reliable short-packet communication is a major challenge in future wireless networks with critical applications. To achieve ultra-reliable communications beyond 99.999%, this paper envisions a new interaction-based communication paradigm that exploits feedback from the receiver. We present AttentionCode, a new class of feedback codes leveraging deep learning (DL) technologies. The underpinnings of AttentionCode are three architectural innovations: AttentionNet, input restructuring, and adaptation to fading channels, accompanied by several training methods, including large-batch training, distributed learning, look-ahead optimizer, training-test signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) mismatch, and curriculum learning. The training methods can potentially be generalized to other wireless communication applications with machine learning. Numerical experiments verify that AttentionCode establishes a new state of the art among all DL-based feedback codes in both additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels and fading channels. In AWGN channels with noiseless feedback, for example, AttentionCode achieves a block error rate (BLER) of $10^{-7}$ when the forward channel SNR is 0 dB for a block size of 50 bits, demonstrating the potential of AttentionCode to provide ultra-reliable short-packet communications.

随着无线标准的发展，引入了更复杂的功能，以解决吞吐量，延迟，安全性和效率方面的增加。为了释放此类新功能的潜力，目前正在利用人工智能（AI）和机器学习（ML）（ML）来从数据中得出模型和协议，而不是通过手工编程。在本文中，我们探讨了将ML应用于下一代无线局域网（WLAN）的可行性。更具体地说，我们专注于IEEE 802.11AX空间重用（SR）问题，并通过联合学习（FL）模型来预测其性能。在这项工作中概述的FL解决方案集是2021年国际电信联盟（ITU）AI的5G挑战赛的一部分。

深度神经网络（DNN）具有嘈杂的权重，我们将其称为嘈杂的神经网络（Noisynns），从DNN的存在下存在噪声的训练和推理。 Noisynns在许多新应用中出现，包括DNN的无线传输，模拟设备中的DNN的有效部署或存储，以及DNN权重的截断或量化。本文研究了Noisynns的根本问题：如何从嘈杂的表现形式重建DNN重量。虽然所有先前的作品都依赖于最大可能性（ML）估计，但本文提出了一种去噪方法来重建DNN，目的是最大化重建模型的推理准确性。我们的脱氮机的优越性在两个小规模问题中经过严格经过严格地证明，其中我们考虑了二次神经网络功能和浅前馈神经网络。当应用于具有现代DNN架构的高级学习任务时，我们的Denoiser表现出比ML估算器的性能显着更好。考虑去噪DNN模型的平均测试准确性与噪声功率比（WNR）性能的重量方差。当去噪产生从嘈杂推理引起的嘈杂的BERT模型时，我们的脱氮机以1.1 dB的估计优于ML估计，以获得75％的测试精度。当去噪产生从嘈杂训练产生的嘈杂reset18模型时，我们的丹机优于13.4 dB和8.3 dB的ML估计，以分别实现60％和80％的测试精度。

Weakly-supervised object localization aims to indicate the category as well as the scope of an object in an image given only the image-level labels. Most of the existing works are based on Class Activation Mapping (CAM) and endeavor to enlarge the discriminative area inside the activation map to perceive the whole object, yet ignore the co-occurrence confounder of the object and context (e.g., fish and water), which makes the model inspection hard to distinguish object boundaries. Besides, the use of CAM also brings a dilemma problem that the classification and localization always suffer from a performance gap and can not reach their highest accuracy simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a casual knowledge distillation method, dubbed KD-CI-CAM, to address these two under-explored issues in one go. More specifically, we tackle the co-occurrence context confounder problem via causal intervention (CI), which explores the causalities among image features, contexts, and categories to eliminate the biased object-context entanglement in the class activation maps. Based on the de-biased object feature, we additionally propose a multi-teacher causal distillation framework to balance the absorption of classification knowledge and localization knowledge during model training. Extensive experiments on several benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of KD-CI-CAM in learning clear object boundaries from confounding contexts and addressing the dilemma problem between classification and localization performance.

Inferring missing links or detecting spurious ones based on observed graphs, known as link prediction, is a long-standing challenge in graph data analysis. With the recent advances in deep learning, graph neural networks have been used for link prediction and have achieved state-of-the-art performance. Nevertheless, existing methods developed for this purpose are typically discriminative, computing features of local subgraphs around two neighboring nodes and predicting potential links between them from the perspective of subgraph classification. In this formalism, the selection of enclosing subgraphs and heuristic structural features for subgraph classification significantly affects the performance of the methods. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes a novel and radically different link prediction algorithm based on the network reconstruction theory, called GraphLP. Instead of sampling positive and negative links and heuristically computing the features of their enclosing subgraphs, GraphLP utilizes the feature learning ability of deep-learning models to automatically extract the structural patterns of graphs for link prediction under the assumption that real-world graphs are not locally isolated. Moreover, GraphLP explores high-order connectivity patterns to utilize the hierarchical organizational structures of graphs for link prediction. Our experimental results on all common benchmark datasets from different applications demonstrate that the proposed method consistently outperforms other state-of-the-art methods. Unlike the discriminative neural network models used for link prediction, GraphLP is generative, which provides a new paradigm for neural-network-based link prediction.

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the core research areas in mobile and wearable computing. With the application of deep learning (DL) techniques such as CNN, recognizing periodic or static activities (e.g, walking, lying, cycling, etc.) has become a well studied problem. What remains a major challenge though is the sporadic activity recognition (SAR) problem, where activities of interest tend to be non periodic, and occur less frequently when compared with the often large amount of irrelevant background activities. Recent works suggested that sequential DL models (such as LSTMs) have great potential for modeling nonperiodic behaviours, and in this paper we studied some LSTM training strategies for SAR. Specifically, we proposed two simple yet effective LSTM variants, namely delay model and inverse model, for two SAR scenarios (with and without time critical requirement). For time critical SAR, the delay model can effectively exploit predefined delay intervals (within tolerance) in form of contextual information for improved performance. For regular SAR task, the second proposed, inverse model can learn patterns from the time series in an inverse manner, which can be complementary to the forward model (i.e.,LSTM), and combining both can boost the performance. These two LSTM variants are very practical, and they can be deemed as training strategies without alteration of the LSTM fundamentals. We also studied some additional LSTM training strategies, which can further improve the accuracy. We evaluated our models on two SAR and one non-SAR datasets, and the promising results demonstrated the effectiveness of our approaches in HAR applications.

Occupancy information is useful for efficient energy management in the building sector. The massive high-resolution electrical power consumption data collected by smart meters in the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) network make it possible to infer buildings' occupancy status in a non-intrusive way. In this paper, we propose a deep leaning model called ABODE-Net which employs a novel Parallel Attention (PA) block for building occupancy detection using smart meter data. The PA block combines the temporal, variable, and channel attention modules in a parallel way to signify important features for occupancy detection. We adopt two smart meter datasets widely used for building occupancy detection in our performance evaluation. A set of state-of-the-art shallow machine learning and deep learning models are included for performance comparison. The results show that ABODE-Net significantly outperforms other models in all experimental cases, which proves its validity as a solution for non-intrusive building occupancy detection.