Hua Zhang;Zijian Cao;Le Liang;Hao Ye;Shi Jin;Geoffrey Ye Li
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Abstract
To enable multi-task semantic communication (SC) for image transmission, this letter proposes a prompt-guided multi-task SC system, termed PGMT-SC. PGMT-SC introduces a task-oriented hypernetwork that transforms natural-language description into prompt generator parameters, enabling flexible task adaptation without retraining the backbone. To enhance zero-shot generalization, we design a mixture-of-prompts (MOP) mechanism with Mixup training, which synthesizes prompts for unseen tasks by interpolating trained task embeddings. Simulation results under Rayleigh fading channels demonstrate that PGMT-SC outperforms existing schemes in multi-task performance and exhibits superior adaptability to unseen tasks.
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The IEEE Communications Letters publishes short papers in a rapid publication cycle on advances in the state-of-the-art of communication over different media and channels including wire, underground, waveguide, optical fiber, and storage channels. Both theoretical contributions (including new techniques, concepts, and analyses) and practical contributions (including system experiments and prototypes, and new applications) are encouraged. This journal focuses on the physical layer and the link layer of communication systems.