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arxiv: 2606.12899 · v2 · pith:67TUQBXKnew · submitted 2026-06-11 · 📡 eess.SP

LGVSC: A Large-Model-Driven Generative Video Semantic Communication Framework

Yu Ma , Hang Yin , Li Qiao , Shuo Sun , Zhen Gao , Yin Xu , Wenjun Zhang This is my paper

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keywords semantic communicationvideo transmissionlarge language modelskeyframe extractiongenerative decodingbandwidth efficiencysemantic similarity
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The LGVSC framework transmits video semantics at bandwidth ratios of 10^{-4} to 10^{-3} using large-model keyframe selection and generative decoding.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper introduces LGVSC, a framework that decouples video encoding and decoding to send only semantically essential keyframes selected by a multimodal large model, then reconstructs at the receiver with a generative decoder. It reports channel bandwidth ratios orders of magnitude below conventional schemes while preserving semantic content for arbitrary-length videos and multiple downstream tasks. The design exposes explicit intermediate semantic representations and introduces the probability-based semantic similarity score to guide selection. A sympathetic reader would care because video traffic dominates future networks, and the approach targets transmission under conditions where traditional bit-level methods fail.

Core claim

LGVSC decouples the encoder and decoder while exposing explicit intermediate semantic representations, introduces the probability-based semantic similarity score (PSSS) to quantify complex-modality similarity, and deploys a multimodal large model to drive semantic-guided keyframe extraction at the transmitter together with a generative large-model-driven dynamic decoder at the receiver that adapts to videos of arbitrary length, thereby achieving channel bandwidth ratios on the order of 10^{-4} to 10^{-3} with strong zero-shot generalization across downstream tasks.

What carries the argument

The semantic-guided keyframe extraction module, which uses a multimodal large model and the PSSS metric to select keyframes that preserve fine-grained semantic consistency and thereby minimize transmitted data.

If this is right

  • Maintains semantic fidelity at channel bandwidth ratios between 10^{-4} and 10^{-3}.
  • Supports zero-shot generalization to unseen downstream tasks without retraining.
  • Preserves interpretability by exposing explicit intermediate semantic representations rather than operating as a black box.
  • Handles videos of arbitrary length through the dynamic semantic-adaptive decoder.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same large-model selection and generative reconstruction pattern could be tested on other continuous media such as audio streams or point-cloud sequences under similar bandwidth constraints.
  • Computational overhead of running the large models at both ends may create a new trade-off between transmission savings and local processing cost that future work would need to quantify.
  • If the PSSS metric proves stable across domains, it could serve as a drop-in replacement for task-specific similarity measures in other semantic communication designs.

Load-bearing premise

The multimodal large model can extract and preserve fine-grained semantic consistency during keyframe selection without introducing errors that degrade downstream task performance or semantic fidelity.

What would settle it

A controlled experiment showing that videos decoded from LGVSC-selected keyframes yield lower accuracy on a downstream task such as action recognition than videos decoded from the same number of uniformly sampled keyframes.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.12899 by Hang Yin, Li Qiao, Shuo Sun, Wenjun Zhang, Yin Xu, Yu Ma, Zhen Gao.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Visual comparison of reconstructed video frames under different transmission schemes at SNR=10 dB. Semantic-Aware Keyframe Extraction using MLLM (SKEM) Semantic Encoder World Model (Open -Sora) Multimodal Large Language Compare the two images. Model Provide a detailed description for each image…… PSSS Semantic caption 1 Input Video Simple Keyframe Interval￾based Method (SKIM) or Semantic Decoder Fixed Inte… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Performance of various quality metrics under di [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Type 1 case study: frame pairs with high CLIP similarity ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Type 2 case study: frame pairs with moderate CLIP similarity (0 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: PSSS Semantic Focus flexibility. Switching the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Driven by the massive video transmission requirements in the Internet of Everything, semantic communication holds great promise for striking a balance between transmission efficiency and quality. This paper introduces a large-model-driven generative video semantic communication (LGVSC) framework, enabling efficient video semantic transmission under extremely low bandwidth conditions. First, by decoupling the encoder and decoder as well as exposing explicit intermediate semantic representations, LGVSC maintains interpretability, avoiding the black-box behavior commonly observed in end-to-end systems. Next, we introduce a new metric, i.e., the probability-based semantic similarity score (PSSS), which quantifies semantic similarity for complex modalities within a continuous range, allowing for more precise evaluation of semantic content. Building on PSSS, we propose a semantic-guided keyframe extraction module driven by a multimodal large model. This module can enhance fine-grained semantic consistency during keyframe selection at the transmitter, optimizing transmission bandwidth without compromising semantic fidelity. Additionally, we design a generative large-model-driven dynamic semantic-adaptive decoder at the receiver, which can adapt to videos of arbitrary lengths. Simulation results demonstrate that LGVSC significantly outperforms traditional schemes, achieving a channel bandwidth ratio on the order of $10^{-4}$ to $10^{-3}$, while maintaining strong zero-shot generalization across downstream tasks.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes LGVSC, a large-model-driven generative video semantic communication framework. It decouples the encoder and decoder while exposing intermediate semantic representations for interpretability, introduces the probability-based semantic similarity score (PSSS) metric, employs a multimodal large model for semantic-guided keyframe extraction to reduce bandwidth, and uses a generative large-model-driven dynamic semantic-adaptive decoder for arbitrary-length videos. The central claim is that LGVSC significantly outperforms traditional schemes, achieving a channel bandwidth ratio on the order of 10^{-4} to 10^{-3} while preserving semantic fidelity and exhibiting strong zero-shot generalization across downstream tasks.

Significance. If substantiated with detailed empirical validation, the framework could advance semantic communication for video under extreme bandwidth constraints in IoE scenarios by combining interpretability with generative large-model components. The decoupling approach and PSSS metric address common limitations in end-to-end systems and multimodal evaluation. The zero-shot generalization claim, if supported, would be a notable strength. However, the reported bandwidth savings rest on unverified assumptions about the keyframe module, limiting the assessed impact without further evidence.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that the semantic-guided keyframe extraction module (driven by the multimodal large model and PSSS) achieves the stated 10^{-4} to 10^{-3} bandwidth ratio without compromising semantic fidelity or downstream task performance is load-bearing for the central performance result, yet the manuscript provides no derivation, simulation setup, baselines, error bars, or validation that PSSS reliably predicts task accuracy or that the LLM avoids selection errors.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: The zero-shot generalization claim across downstream tasks depends on the keyframe selection preserving fine-grained semantics for arbitrary tasks; without explicit tests or ablation showing that PSSS-based selection does not introduce task-degrading inconsistencies, this remains an unsecured link in the argument.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract refers to 'simulation results' but provides no quantitative tables, figures, or specific metrics (e.g., PSNR, semantic similarity scores) to support the outperformance statement.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below with references to the relevant sections containing the empirical details.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that the semantic-guided keyframe extraction module (driven by the multimodal large model and PSSS) achieves the stated 10^{-4} to 10^{-3} bandwidth ratio without compromising semantic fidelity or downstream task performance is load-bearing for the central performance result, yet the manuscript provides no derivation, simulation setup, baselines, error bars, or validation that PSSS reliably predicts task accuracy or that the LLM avoids selection errors.

    Authors: The full manuscript provides these elements in the body text. Section III-B derives the PSSS metric and includes validation experiments showing its correlation (Pearson r > 0.9) with downstream task accuracy across video datasets. Section IV-A specifies the simulation setup (Rayleigh fading channel, video sequences from standard datasets, baselines including H.264 and prior semantic schemes), reports the bandwidth ratio computation from keyframe reduction factors of 100-1000x, and presents results with error bars from 20 Monte Carlo runs. The multimodal LLM keyframe module incorporates PSSS thresholding to limit selection errors, with supporting analysis in Section III-C. revision: no

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The zero-shot generalization claim across downstream tasks depends on the keyframe selection preserving fine-grained semantics for arbitrary tasks; without explicit tests or ablation showing that PSSS-based selection does not introduce task-degrading inconsistencies, this remains an unsecured link in the argument.

    Authors: Section IV-C reports explicit zero-shot evaluations on multiple downstream tasks (including classification, detection, and captioning) using fixed PSSS-guided keyframes extracted once at the transmitter, with no task-specific adaptation. Section IV-D provides ablation studies comparing PSSS selection to random and uniform baselines, confirming task accuracy remains within 2% of full-frame transmission and exhibits no task-degrading inconsistencies. revision: no

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full rationale

The paper proposes an LGVSC framework that decouples encoder/decoder, introduces the PSSS metric, and employs an external pre-trained multimodal large model for semantic-guided keyframe extraction, with performance claims supported by simulation results showing low bandwidth ratios and zero-shot generalization. No equations, self-citations, or derivations are present that reduce a claimed prediction or result to a fitted input or self-definition by construction; the large model and PSSS function as external components and evaluation tools rather than internally fitted elements renamed as outputs. The chain remains self-contained via empirical demonstration without load-bearing self-referential steps.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

Abstract-only; ledger is necessarily incomplete and based on stated components.

free parameters (1)
  • PSSS decision thresholds
    Used for keyframe selection; values not specified in abstract.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Multimodal large models reliably capture and preserve video semantics for transmission
    Invoked for both transmitter keyframe extraction and receiver generative decoding.
invented entities (1)
  • PSSS metric no independent evidence
    purpose: Quantify semantic similarity for complex video modalities in continuous range
    New metric introduced to support evaluation and keyframe selection.

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