SCALE:面向信息物理代理的实时潜在通信
SCALE: Real-Time Latent Communication for Cyber-Physical Agents
Shanghao Shi, Jian Xiao, Ching-Hsiang Chan, Sanjoy Baruah, Sastry Kompella, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, William Yeoh, Ning Zhang
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SCALE 是一种面向信息物理代理的实时潜在通信方法,它利用时空连续性复用潜在信息,并在带宽和任务截止期约束下调度消息与令牌数量。
cs.RO · cs.MA
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Latent communication enables agents to collaborate efficiently by directly exchanging intermediate model representations rather than raw sensor data or text messages. Existing approaches, however, are primarily designed for LLM agents and do not consider the bandwidth constraints and heterogeneous task deadlines faced by cyber-physical agents. In this work, we propose SCALE, a real-time latent communication method tailored for cyber-physical agents. Motivated by the spatio-temporal continuity of the physical world, SCALE matches tokens across consecutive latent messages using similarity scores to identify reusable information and avoid redundant transmission. It then profiles the semantic gain and communication cost of transmitting different amounts of latent information. Based on these profiles, SCALE employs a real-time scheduler that jointly determines which pending messages to transmit and how many latent tokens to send, subject to available bandwidth and task deadlines. We evaluate SCALE across three cyber-physical benchmarks and a physical spider robot case study under diverse network conditions and heterogeneous task deadlines. Our results show that SCALE significantly improves both task performance and on-time delivery in bandwidth-constrained networks. Our code is available at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/SCALE-4E80/.