What is semantic information? How to design a semantic communication system? A semantic communication system to do what? What are the relations between semantic information and AI? While considering these problems is very general, this area has received, very recently a lot of attention from a community of researchers working on future 6G wireless networks. The main international experts in the field will present their visions on very recent results (part still unpublished), opening interactive discussions on the extraordinary opportunities that a semantic vision will offer to 6G systems and AI. This workshop will be the opportunity of presenting results towards a theory of semantic information as well as a semantic-guided design of 6G architectures and semantics at the physical layer.
The Workshop on Semantic Information and Communication, organized by Huawei Technologies in Paris on March 7 and 8, 2023 will gather the top experts in the field. Presentations will cover a broad scope of topics, ranging from theoretical aspects , algorithmic questions, to applications to wireless communications and machine learning.
In-person participation is encouraged, but all the technical presentations will be publicly live-streamed using the link provided below. This is our way of showing appreciation for the great work of the invited researchers, while giving back to the academic community at large. We also emphasize that all the presentations will cover recent but already publicly available results.
The workshop will take place at the Lagrange Mathematics and Computing Research Center, located 103 rue de Grenelle in Paris, in the historical nineteenth century building that was used to terminate the Chappe optical telegraph. People who wish to attend in person have to use the contact address at the bottom of the page.
The workshop will be live-streamed (no registration required). No recording will be made.
Day 1: link to the online meeting
Day 2: link to the online meeting
The times below are local Paris time (CET). You can check the time in Paris right now using this link.
| Time (CET) | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome Coffee | (for on-site participants) |
| 9:30 - 10:10 | Opening Speech and a First Approach to Semantics | Wen Tong / Jean-Claude Belfiore, Huawei (France) |
| 10:10 - 10:50 | Toposes as "bridges" for mathematics and artificial intelligence | Prof. Olivia Caramello, University of Insubria and Insitute Grothendieck |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Coffee break | (for on-site participants) |
| 11:10 - 11:50 | Information bottleneck and topological knowledge representation for semantic communications | Prof. Sergio Barbarossa, La Sapienza University, Rome |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | Semantic Information Spaces and examples of concepts | Prof. Daniel Bennequin, Université Paris Diderot, Paris |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | (for on-site participants) |
| 13:30 - 14:10 | From Semantic Communication to Semantic-aware Networking: Model, Architecture, and Open Problems | Prof.Guangming Shi, Peng Cheng Laboratory |
| Time (CET) | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 14:10 - 14:50 | Semantics-aware Goal-Oriented Communications: Age of Information and beyond | Prof. Nikolaos Pappas, Linköping University |
| 14:50 - 15:30 | From Conventional to Semantic Communications based on Deep Learning | Prof. Geoffrey Li, Imperial College, London |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | (for on-site participants) |
| 16:00 - 16:40 | Communication Models and Protocols: Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics | Prof. Petar Popovski, Aalborg University |
| 16:40 - 17:20 | Semantic communication meets system 2 Machine Learning | Prof. Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu |
| Time (CET) | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome Coffee | (for on-site participants) |
| 9:30 - 10:10 | Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding: Recent Advances and Further Challenges | Prof. Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College, London |
| 10:10 - 10:50 | Semantic Coding and Semantic Communication Based on Transformer and Attention Mechanism | Prof. Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Coffee break | (for on-site participants) |
| 11:10 - 11:50 | Advancements in Semantic Signal Processing for Next Generation Communication Networks: Opportunities and Applications | Prof. Orhan Arikan, Bilkent University, Ankara |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | Less Data, More Knowledge: Building Next Generation Semantic Communication Networks | Prof. Merouane Debbah, Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | (for on-site participants) |
| Time (CET) | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Will Semantics be the disruption we are waiting for 6G ? | Panel chaired by Jean-Claude Belfiore |
The workshop is organized by Huawei Technologies Paris R&D Center. All enquiries shall be directed to Zhenrong LIU, zhenrong.liu@huawei.com or Jean-Claude Belfiore, jean.claude.belfiore@huawei.com.