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The ever-increasing demand from mobile Machine Learning (ML) applications calls for evermore powerful on-chip computing resources. Mobile devices are empowered with heterogeneous multi-processor Systems-on-Chips (SoCs) to process ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Siqi Wang , Anuj Pathania , Tulika Mitra

The inference of Neural Networks is usually restricted by the resources (e.g., computing power, memory, bandwidth) on edge devices. In addition to improving the hardware design and deploying efficient models, it is possible to aggregate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Jun-Liang Lin , Sheng-De Wang

Recent studies have shown that collaborative intelligence (CI) is a promising framework for deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based services on mobile devices. In CI, a deep neural network is split between the mobile device and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Saeed Ranjbar Alvar , Ivan V. Bajić

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in mobile intelligent applications. The inference for the DNNs is usually performed in the cloud. However, it leads to a large overhead of transmitting data via wireless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Guangli Li , Lei Liu , Xueying Wang , Xiao Dong , Peng Zhao , Xiaobing Feng

A wide variety of deep neural applications increasingly rely on the cloud to perform their compute-heavy inference. This common practice requires sending private and privileged data over the network to remote servers, exposing it to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah , Mohammadkazem Taram , Prakash Ramrakhyani , Dean Tullsen , Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

With the rise of machine learning, inference on deep neural networks (DNNs) has become a core building block on the critical path for many cloud applications. Applications today rely on isolated ad-hoc deployments that force users to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Amit Samanta , Suhas Shrinivasan , Antoine Kaufmann , Jonathan Mace

Today's cloud vendors are competing to provide various offerings to simplify and accelerate AI service deployment. However, cloud users always have concerns about the confidentiality of their runtime data, which are supposed to be processed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Zhongshu Gu , Heqing Huang , Jialong Zhang , Dong Su , Hani Jamjoom , Ankita Lamba , Dimitrios Pendarakis , Ian Molloy

Many current Internet services rely on inferences from models trained on user data. Commonly, both the training and inference tasks are carried out using cloud resources fed by personal data collected at scale from users. Holding and using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Sandra Servia-Rodriguez , Liang Wang , Jianxin R. Zhao , Richard Mortier , Hamed Haddadi

Transformer models are rapidly becoming a cornerstone of modern Internet of Things (IoT) applications, yet their computational and memory demands far exceed the capabilities of a single typical ultra-low-power IoT device. We present CATS, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Alexander Gräfe , Ding Huo , Vincent de Bakker , Johannes Berger , Marco Zimmerling , Sebastian Trimpe

We consider a centralized detection problem where sensors experience noisy measurements and intermittent connectivity to a centralized fusion center. The sensors collaborate locally within predefined sensor clusters and fuse their noisy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Michal Yemini , Stephanie Gil , Andrea J. Goldsmith

Due to the advancement in mobile devices and wireless networks mobile cloud computing, which combines mobile computing and cloud computing has gained momentum since 2009. The characteristics of mobile devices and wireless network makes the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Preetha Theresa Joy , K. Poulose Jacob

Recent advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated outstanding performance across various domains. However, their large size is a challenge for deployment on resource-constrained devices such as mobile, edge, and IoT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

The collaboration of large artificial intelligence (AI) models in mobile edge networks has emerged as a promising paradigm to meet the growing demand for intelligent services at the network edge. By enabling multiple devices to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Peichun Li , Liping Qian , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao , Yuan Wu

The rise of mobile devices equipped with numerous sensors, such as LiDAR and cameras, has spurred the adoption of multi-modal deep intelligence for distributed sensing tasks, such as smart cabins and driving assistance. However, the arrival…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Fenmin Wu , Sicong Liu , Kehao Zhu , Xiaochen Li , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Hongkai Wen , Xiangrui Xu , Lehao Wang , Xiangyu Liu

Running deep neural network (DNN) inference on mobile devices, i.e., mobile inference, has become a growing trend, making inference less dependent on network connections and keeping private data locally. The prior studies on optimizing DNNs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Luting Yang , Bingqian Lu , Shaolei Ren

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming society, powering applications from smartphone assistants to autonomous driving. Yet cloud-based LLM services alone cannot serve a growing class of applications, including those operating under…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Liangqi Yuan , Wenzhi Fang , Shiqiang Wang , H. Vincent Poor , Christopher G. Brinton

Sharing location traces with context-aware service providers has privacy implications. Location-privacy preserving mechanisms, such as obfuscation, anonymization and cryptographic primitives, have been shown to have impractical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Vaibhav Kulkarni , Arielle Moro , Bertil Chapuis , Benoit Garbinato

The computational complexity of large language model (LLM) inference significantly constrains their deployment efficiency on edge devices. In contrast, small language models offer faster decoding and lower resource consumption but often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Jianshu She , Wenhao Zheng , Zhengzhong Liu , Hongyi Wang , Eric Xing , Huaxiu Yao , Qirong Ho

This paper proposes a communication-efficient, event-triggered inference framework for cooperative edge AI systems comprising multiple user devices and edge servers. Building upon dual-threshold early-exit strategies for rare-event…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Thai T. Vu , John Le

Mobile devices can offload deep neural network (DNN)-based inference to the cloud, overcoming local hardware and energy limitations. However, offloading adds communication delay, thus increasing the overall inference time, and hence it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Roberto G. Pacheco , Rodrigo S. Couto , Osvaldo Simeone