Yirun Wang

Yirun Wang, Yuyang Du, Soung Chang Liew et al.

Achieving reliable communication has long been a fundamental challenge in networked systems. Semantic Error Correction (SEC) leverages the semantic understanding capabilities of language models (LMs) to perform application-layer error correction, complementing conventional channel decoding. While promising, existing SEC approaches rely solely on context captured by LMs at the application layer, ignoring the rich information available at the physical layer. To address this limitation, this paper introduces Cross-Layer SEC (CL-SEC), an LM-empowered error correction framework that integrates cross-layer information from both the physical and application layers to jointly correct corrupted words in text communication. Using a Bayesian combination in product form tailored to this framework, CL-SEC achieves significantly improved performance over methods that process information in isolated layers. CL-SEC shows substantial gains across multiple error-correction metrics, including bit-error rate, word-error rate, and semantic fidelity scores. Importantly, unlike most semantic communication systems that focus solely on recovering the semantic meaning of transmitted messages, CL-SEC aims to reconstruct the original transmitted message verbatim, leveraging the semantic understanding capabilities of LMs for precise reconstruction.

Yuchen Pan, Yuyang Du, Yirun Wang et al.

As Language Models (LMs) advance, Semantic Error Correction (SEC) has emerged as a promising approach for reliable network designs. Yet existing methods prioritize intent over accuracy, falling short of verbatim recovery. Our recent work, Cross-Layer SEC (CL-SEC), addressed this by fusing physical-layer Log-Likelihood Ratios (LLRs) with semantic context, but its real-time feasibility remained unvalidated. This paper demonstrates CL-SEC on a live Software-Defined Radio (SDR) testbed, resolving implementation barriers with: 1) an SDR middleware enabling real-time LLR extraction from FPGA hardware, and 2) a generalized inference interface supporting modern encoder-decoder LMs. Real-world experiments confirm that the cross-layer fusion significantly outperforms either source alone.