Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a capability of the UE to communicate one or more of uplink communications or downlink communications that include data-modulated demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) in which each of one or more resources of a plurality of resources of the uplink communications or the downlink communications carry both at least a portion of a DMRS sequence and data. The UE may transmit an uplink communication or receive a downlink communication that includes the data-modulated DMRSs. Numerous other aspects are provided.