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This paper presents the first industry-standard open-source machine learning (ML) benchmark to allow perfor mance and accuracy evaluation of mobile devices with different AI chips and software stacks. The benchmark draws from the expertise…

The common assumption in on-device AI is that GPUs, with their superior parallel processing, always provide the best performance for large language model (LLM) inference. In this work, we challenge this notion by empirically demonstrating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Haolin Zhang , Jeff Huang

Running deep neural networks on microcontroller units (MCUs) is severely constrained by limited memory resources. While TinyML techniques reduce model size and computation, they often fail in practice due to excessive peak Random Access…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Junyu Lu , Shashwath Suresh , Hao Liu , Qi Hong , Qing Wang

In this paper, we develop an in-memory analog computing (IMAC) architecture realizing both synaptic behavior and activation functions within non-volatile memory arrays. Spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (SOT-MRAM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Mohammed Elbtity , Abhishek Singh , Brendan Reidy , Xiaochen Guo , Ramtin Zand

Deploying large language models (LLMs) on mobile devices increasingly relies on heterogeneous execution, yet no prior study has systematically characterized NPU effectiveness at the operator and pipeline level. We present the first…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Pu Li , Jiawen Qi , Qinyu Chen

High-end mobile platforms rapidly serve as primary computing devices for a wide range of Deep Neural Network (DNN) applications. However, the constrained computation and storage resources on these devices still pose significant challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Wei Niu , Pu Zhao , Zheng Zhan , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang , Bin Ren

Almost in every heavily computation-dependent application, from 6G communication systems to autonomous driving platforms, a large portion of computing should be near to the client side. Edge computing (AI at Edge) in mobile devices is one…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Seyed Nima Omidsajedi , Rekha Reddy , Jianming Yi , Jan Herbst , Christoph Lipps , Hans Dieter Schotten

The need to train DNN models on end-user devices (e.g., smartphones) is increasing with the need to improve data privacy and reduce communication overheads. Unlike datacenter servers with powerful CPUs and GPUs, modern smartphones consist…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Sanjay Sri Vallabh Singapuram , Fan Lai , Chuheng Hu , Mosharaf Chowdhury

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed across diverse industries, driving demand for mobile device support. However, existing mobile inference frameworks often rely on a single processor per model, limiting hardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yunquan Gao , Zhiguo Zhang , Praveen Kumar Donta , Chinmaya Kumar Dehury , Xiujun Wang , Dusit Niyato , Qiyang Zhang

Deep learning models are being deployed in many mobile intelligent applications. End-side services, such as intelligent personal assistants, autonomous cars, and smart home services often employ either simple local models on the mobile or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , Mohammad Saeed Abrishami , Massoud Pedram

The growing demand for real-time DNN applications on edge devices necessitates faster inference of increasingly complex models. Although many devices include specialized accelerators (e.g., mobile GPUs), dynamic control-flow operators and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Chong Tang , Hao Dai , Jagmohan Chauhan

The training of deep and/or convolutional neural networks (DNNs/CNNs) is traditionally done on servers with powerful CPUs and GPUs. Recent efforts have emerged to localize machine learning tasks fully on the edge. This brings advantages in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Pranav Rama , Madison Threadgill , Andreas Gerstlauer

The performance of mobile AI accelerators has been evolving rapidly in the past two years, nearly doubling with each new generation of SoCs. The current 4th generation of mobile NPUs is already approaching the results of CUDA-compatible…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Andrey Ignatov , Radu Timofte , Andrei Kulik , Seungsoo Yang , Ke Wang , Felix Baum , Max Wu , Lirong Xu , Luc Van Gool

Modern mobile devices are equipped with high-performance hardware resources such as graphics processing units (GPUs), making the end-side intelligent services more feasible. Even recently, specialized silicons as neural engines are being…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , Amirhossein Esmaili , Massoud Pedram

On-chip communication infrastructure is a central component of modern systems-on-chip (SoCs), and it continues to gain importance as the number of cores, the heterogeneity of components, and the on-chip and off-chip bandwidth continue to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Andreas Kurth , Wolfgang Rönninger , Thomas Benz , Matheus Cavalcante , Fabian Schuiki , Florian Zaruba , Luca Benini

Human brains are known to be capable of speeding up visual recognition of repeatedly presented objects through faster memory encoding and accessing procedures on activated neurons. For the first time, we borrow and distill such a capability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Yun Li , Chen Zhang , Shihao Han , Li Lyna Zhang , Baoqun Yin , Yunxin Liu , Mengwei Xu

Nowadays System-On-Chips (SoCs) have evolved considerably in term of performances, reliability and integration capacity. The last advantage has induced the growth of the number of cores or Intellectual Properties (IPs) in a same chip.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-13 Ahmed Ben Achballah , Slim Ben Saoud

Splitting the inference model between device, edge server, and cloud can improve the performance of EI greatly. Additionally, the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), which is the key supporting technologies of B5G/6G, can achieve massive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xin Yuan , Ning Li , Tuo Zhang , Muqing Li , Yuwen Chen , Jose Fernan Martinez Ortega , Song Guo

With smartphones' omnipresence in people's pockets, Machine Learning (ML) on mobile is gaining traction as devices become more powerful. With applications ranging from visual filters to voice assistants, intelligence on mobile comes in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Mario Almeida , Stefanos Laskaridis , Abhinav Mehrotra , Lukasz Dudziak , Ilias Leontiadis , Nicholas D. Lane

Computing demands for large scientific experiments, such as the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, will increase dramatically in the next decades. To complement the future performance increases of software running on central processing units…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-09 CMS Collaboration