Publications

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Preprint / Under Review

K. He, L. He, S. Tang, Y. Wang, and L. Fan, "Generative Actor-Critic with Soft Bridge Policies," arXiv preprint, arXiv:2605.08733, 2026. Code arXiv

Z. Yang, Z. Zhang, S. Tang, Q. Yang, and Z. Shi, "AgenticPrecoding: LLM-Empowered Multi-Agent System for Precoding Optimization," arXiv preprint, arXiv:2605.06443, 2026. arXiv

Y. Jia, S. Tang, and Q. Yang, "CoVSpec: Efficient Device-Edge Co-Inference for Vision-Language Models via Speculative Decoding," arXiv preprint, arXiv:2605.02218, 2026. Code arXiv

S. Tang, Q. Yang, Z. Shi, J. Chen, and X. Shen, "When Eavesdroppers Reason: Agentic Eavesdropping Attacks on Semantic Communication," arXiv preprint, arXiv:2605.02204, 2026. arXiv

S. Tang, Q. Yang, J. Park, Z. Zhang, K. Huang, and D. Gunduz, "Cache-enabled Generative Joint Source-Channel Coding for Evolving Semantic Communications," arXiv preprint, arXiv:2603.17702, 2026. arXiv

Z. Yang, Q. Yang, S. Tang, Y. Yang, and Z. Shi, "TCLNet: A Hybrid Transformer-CNN Framework Leveraging Language Models as Lossless Compressors for CSI Feedback," arXiv preprint, arXiv:2601.06588, 2026. Code arXiv

Y. Wu, L. Ma, R. Zhang, Y. Liu, S. Tang, Z. Xiong, Z. Han, and Z. Yang, "Towards Edge General Intelligence: Knowledge Distillation for Mobile Agentic AI," arXiv preprint, arXiv:2511.19947, 2025. arXiv

W. Chen, Q. Yang, S. Shao, S. Tang, Z. Shi, and S. Yu, "Privacy-Preserving Semantic Communication over Wiretap Channels with Learnable Differential Privacy," arXiv preprint, arXiv:2510.23274, 2025. arXiv

Y. Wei, S. Tang, L. Zhao, and Q. Yang, "DiffusionX: Efficient Edge-Cloud Collaborative Image Generation with Multi-Round Prompt Evolution," arXiv preprint, arXiv:2510.16326, 2025. arXiv

S. Tang, Y. Chen, Q. Yang, R. Zhang, and Z. Shi, "Towards Secure Semantic Communications in the Presence of Intelligent Eavesdroppers," arXiv preprint, arXiv:2503.23103, 2025. arXiv

Journal

S. Tang, Y. Jia, Z. Yang, Q. Yang, R. Zhang, J. Du, J. Park, Z. Shi, and J. Chen, "Rethinking Secure Semantic Communications in the Age of Generative and Agentic AI: Threats and Opportunities," IEEE Commun. Magazine, Accepted, 2026. arXiv

X. Wang, J. Huang, S. Tang, L. Fan, X. Lei, and A. Nallanathan, "Generative AI-enabled Cooperative Jamming for Secure Semantic Communication," IEEE Trans. Commun., Accepted, 2026.

L. Zhang, S. Tang, C. Li, L. Fan, and A. Nallanathan, "Towards Long-Tailed Federated Edge Learning: A Strategic Data Selection Framework," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., Accepted, 2026.

R. Zhang, S. Tang*, Y. Liu, Z. Xiong, S. Sun, S. Mao, and Z. Han, "Toward Agentic AI: Generative Information Retrieval Inspired Intelligent Communications and Networking," IEEE Commun. Magazine, vol. 64, no. 1, 2026.

S. Tang, R. Zhang, Y. Yan, Q. Yang, X. Wang, and S. Mao, "Retrieval-augmented Generation for GenAI-enabled Semantic Communications," IEEE Wireless Commun., vol. 33, no. 1, 2026.

R. Zhang, Y. Liu, S. Tang, J. Wang, G. Sun, Y. Li, and S. Sun, "Covert Prompt Transmission for Secure Large Language Model Services," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., Early Access, 2025.

C. Liu, Z. Shi, S. He, S. Tang, and Q. Yang, "A Decoder-Free Reconstruction Method for Semi-Supervised Rail Surface Defect Detection," IEEE Trans. Ind. Cyber-Phys. Syst., vol. 3, pp. 285-295, 2025.

S. Tang, Q. Yang, L. Fan, X. Lei, A. Nallanathan, and G. K. Karagiannidis, "Contrastive Learning Based Semantic Communications," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 72, no. 10, pp. 6328-6343, 2024. PDF Code

Y. Wu, S. Tang, L. Zhang, L. Fan, X. Lei, and X. Chen, "Resilient Machine Learning-based Semantic-aware MEC Networks for Sustainable Next-G Consumer Electronics," IEEE Trans. Consum. Electron., vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 2188-2199, 2024.

S. Tang, K. He, L. Chen, L. Fan, X. Lei, and R. Q. Hu, "Collaborative Cache-aided Relaying Networks: Performance Evaluation and System Optimization," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 706-719, 2023. Code

L. Chen, S. Tang, V. Balasubramanian, J. Xia, F. Zhou, and L. Fan, "Physical-layer Security based Mobile Edge Computing for emerging cyber physical systems," Comput. Commun., vol. 194, pp. 180-188, 2023.

S. Tang, L. Chen, K. He, J. Xia, L. Fan, and A. Nallanathan, "Computational Intelligence and Deep Learning for Edge-Enabled Industrial IoT," IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng., vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 2881-2893, 2023. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

W. Zhou, L. Chen, S. Tang, L. Lai, J. Xia, F. Zhou, and L. Fan, "Offloading strategy with PSO for Mobile Edge Computing based on Cache Mechanism," Cluster Comput., vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 2389-2401, 2022.

S. Tang, J. Xia, L. Fan, X. Lei, W. Xu, and A. Nallanathan, "Dilated Convolution Based CSI Feedback Compression for Massive MIMO Systems," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 11216-11221, 2022. Code

S. Tang, W. Zhou, L. Chen, L. Lai, J. Xia, and L. Fan, "Battery-Constrained Federated Edge Learning in UAV-enabled IoT for B5G/6G Networks," Phys. Commun., vol. 47, 10381, 2021. Code

S. Lai, R. Zhao, S. Tang, J. Xia, F. Zhou, and L. Fan, "Intelligent Secure Mobile Edge Computing for beyond 5G Wireless Network," Phys. Commun., vol. 45, 101283, 2021.

Conference

S. Tang and Q. Yang, "Generative Semantic Communication via Alternating Dual-Domain Posterior Sampling," IEEE PIMRC, Singapore, 2026. arXiv

Y. Yan, S. Tang, Y. Shu, Z. Shi, and Q. Yang, "FeDeRA:Efficient Fine-tuning of Language Models in Federated Learning Leveraging Weight Decomposition," AAAI Workshop, Singapore, 2026. (Best Student Paper Award)

S. Tang, Y. Jia, Q. Yang, R. Zhang, and J. Park, "Enabling Training-Free Semantic Communication Systems with Generative Diffusion Models," IEEE GLOBECOM, Taipei, China, 2025. PDF Code

S. Tang, C. Liu, Q. Yang, and S. He, "Secure Semantic Communication for Image Transmission in the Presence of Eavesdroppers," IEEE GLOBECOM, Cape Town, South Africa, 2024.

W. Chen, S. Tang, and Q. Yang, "Enhancing Image Privacy in Semantic Communication over Wiretap Channels leveraging Differential Privacy," IEEE MLSP, London, UK, 2024.

S. Tang, Q. Yang, D. Gündüz, and Z. Zhang, "Evolving Semantic Communication with Generative Modelling," IEEE PIMRC, Valencia, Spain, 2024. Code

S. Tang, Q. Yang, L. Fan, X. Lei, Y. Deng, and A. Nallanathan, "Contrastive Learning based Semantic Communication for Wireless Image Transmission," IEEE VTC-Fall, Hong Kong, China, 2023.