{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/s-jscc-a-digital-joint-source-channel-coding","title":"SNN-SC: A Spiking Semantic Communication Framework for Collaborative Intelligence","arxiv_id":"2210.06836","date":"2022-10-13","proceeding":null,"authors":["Mengyang Wang","Jiahui Li","Mengyao Ma","Xiaopeng Fan"],"abstract":"Collaborative Intelligence (CI) has emerged as a promising framework for deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) models on resource-constrained edge devices. In CI, the AI model is partitioned between the edge device and the cloud, with intermediate features transmitted from the edge sub-model to the cloud sub-model to complete the inference task. However, reducing feature transmission overhead while maintaining task performance remains a challenge, particularly in the case of noisy wireless channels. In this paper, we propose a Spiking Neural Network (SNN)-based Semantic Communication (SC) model, SNN-SC, which extracts compact semantic information from features and transmits it through digital binary channels. Compared to the Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based SC model, whose output is floating-point, the binary output of SNN makes SNN-SC directly applicable to digital binary channels without the need for extra quantization. Moreover, we introduce a novel spiking neuron called IHF to enhance the reconstruction capability of the SNN-SC decoder. Finally, we enhance the performance of SNN-SC by maximizing the entropy of semantic information. SNN-SC achieves a higher compression ratio and overcomes the `cliff effect' compared to the traditional separate source and channel coding method. In addition, SNN-SC has lower computational complexity than the DNN-based SC model and maintains higher task performance under poor channel conditions.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06836v4","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.06836v4.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"s-jscc-a-digital-joint-source-channel-coding","repo_url":"https://github.com/2023-MindSpore-1/ms-code-222/tree/main/snn","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"mindspore","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"classification-1","task_name":"Classification"},{"task_slug":"quantization","task_name":"Quantization"},{"task_slug":"semantic-communication","task_name":"Semantic Communication"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"convolution","method_name":"Convolution"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}