{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4413472574","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/lcomm.2025.3601995","title":"Distillation-Enabled Knowledge Alignment Protocol for Semantic Communication in AI Agent Networks","display_name":"Distillation-Enabled Knowledge Alignment Protocol for Semantic Communication in AI Agent Networks","publication_year":2025,"publication_date":"2025-08-23","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4413472574","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/lcomm.2025.3601995"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/lcomm.2025.3601995","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/lcomm.2025.3601995","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S147316732","display_name":"IEEE Communications Letters","issn_l":"1089-7798","issn":["1089-7798","1558-2558","2373-7891"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310316002","host_organization_name":"IEEE Communications Society","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310316002","https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["IEEE Communications Society","Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Communications Letters","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["arxiv","crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"green","oa_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17030","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5025344129","display_name":"Jingzhi Hu","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1965-3576"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I47508984","display_name":"Imperial College London","ror":"https://ror.org/041kmwe10","country_code":"GB","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I47508984"]}],"countries":["GB"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Jingzhi Hu","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, U.K","Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, U.K","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I47508984"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I47508984"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5039289964","display_name":"Geoffrey Ye Li","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7894-2415"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I47508984","display_name":"Imperial College London","ror":"https://ror.org/041kmwe10","country_code":"GB","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I47508984"]}],"countries":["GB"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Geoffrey Ye Li","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, U.K","Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, U.K","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I47508984"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I47508984"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":2,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5025344129"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I47508984"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.33073015,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":"29","issue":"11","first_page":"2541","last_page":"2545"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13382","display_name":"Robotics and Automated Systems","score":0.9602000117301941,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2207","display_name":"Control and Systems Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13382","display_name":"Robotics and Automated Systems","score":0.9602000117301941,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2207","display_name":"Control and Systems Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13062","display_name":"Cognitive Computing and Networks","score":0.9506999850273132,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.7993959784507751},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/protocol","display_name":"Protocol (science)","score":0.6822531819343567},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/communications-protocol","display_name":"Communications protocol","score":0.4633308947086334},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/artificial-intelligence","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","score":0.44705408811569214},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-network","display_name":"Computer network","score":0.4443947672843933},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/data-mining","display_name":"Data mining","score":0.37230193614959717}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.7993959784507751},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780385302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q367158","display_name":"Protocol (science)","level":3,"score":0.6822531819343567},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C12269588","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132364","display_name":"Communications protocol","level":2,"score":0.4633308947086334},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.44705408811569214},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C31258907","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1301371","display_name":"Computer network","level":1,"score":0.4443947672843933},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124101348","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172491","display_name":"Data mining","level":1,"score":0.37230193614959717},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C204787440","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188504","display_name":"Alternative medicine","level":2,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142724271","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7208","display_name":"Pathology","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C71924100","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11190","display_name":"Medicine","level":0,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/lcomm.2025.3601995","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/lcomm.2025.3601995","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S147316732","display_name":"IEEE Communications Letters","issn_l":"1089-7798","issn":["1089-7798","1558-2558","2373-7891"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310316002","host_organization_name":"IEEE Communications Society","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310316002","https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["IEEE Communications Society","Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Communications Letters","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:arXiv.org:2505.17030","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17030","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17030","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4393918464","display_name":"ArXiv.org","issn_l":"2331-8422","issn":["2331-8422"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"text"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:arXiv.org:2505.17030","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17030","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17030","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4393918464","display_name":"ArXiv.org","issn_l":"2331-8422","issn":["2331-8422"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"text"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":0,"referenced_works":[],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2111375262","https://openalex.org/W2317728013","https://openalex.org/W2388330702","https://openalex.org/W2409714959","https://openalex.org/W4298212052","https://openalex.org/W2392986374","https://openalex.org/W2390164899","https://openalex.org/W2740821854","https://openalex.org/W4254015142","https://openalex.org/W4392877027"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Future":[0],"networks":[1],"are":[2],"envisioned":[3],"to":[4,19,44,90,141],"connect":[5],"massive":[6],"artificial":[7],"intelligence":[8],"(AI)":[9],"agents,":[10],"enabling":[11],"their":[12,54],"extensive":[13],"collaboration":[14],"on":[15],"diverse":[16],"tasks.":[17,97],"Compared":[18],"traditional":[20],"entities,":[21],"these":[22],"agents":[23,43,48,89],"naturally":[24],"suit":[25],"the":[26,34,40,72,85,100,128,134],"semantic":[27],"communication":[28,106,136],"(SC),":[29],"which":[30,70],"can":[31],"significantly":[32],"enhance":[33],"bandwidth":[35],"efficiency.":[36],"Nevertheless,":[37],"SC":[38],"requires":[39],"knowledge":[41,52,66,74,94,131],"among":[42],"be":[45],"aligned,":[46],"while":[47],"have":[49],"distinct":[50],"expert":[51,73],"for":[53,95],"individual":[55],"tasks":[56],"in":[57],"practice.":[58],"In":[59],"this":[60],"paper,":[61],"we":[62],"propose":[63],"a":[64,112,120],"distillation-enabled":[65],"alignment":[67,104,132],"protocol":[68],"(DeKAP),":[69],"distills":[71],"of":[75,103],"each":[76],"agent":[77],"into":[78],"parameter-efficient":[79],"low-rank":[80],"matrices,":[81],"allocates":[82],"them":[83],"across":[84],"network,":[86],"and":[87,108,118,137],"allows":[88],"simultaneously":[91],"maintain":[92],"aligned":[93],"multiple":[96],"We":[98],"formulate":[99],"joint":[101],"minimization":[102],"loss,":[105],"overhead,":[107],"storage":[109],"cost":[110],"as":[111],"large-scale":[113],"integer":[114],"linear":[115],"programming":[116],"problem":[117],"develop":[119],"highly":[121],"efficient":[122],"greedy":[123],"algorithm.":[124],"From":[125],"computer":[126],"simulation,":[127],"DeKAP":[129],"establishes":[130],"with":[133],"lowest":[135],"computation":[138],"resources":[139],"compared":[140],"conventional":[142],"approaches.":[143]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2025-11-14T23:14:49.485078","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}