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This paper presents a comparative analysis of distributed training strategies for large-scale neural networks, focusing on data parallelism, model parallelism, and hybrid approaches. We evaluate these strategies on image classification…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Vishnu Vardhan Baligodugula , Fathi Amsaad

Edge Computing (EC) is about remodeling the way data is handled, processed, and delivered within a vast heterogeneous network. One of the fundamental concepts of EC is to push the data processing near the edge by exploiting front-end…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Raby Hamadi , Abdullah Khanfor , Hakim Ghazzai , Yehia Massoud

Integrating non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) with terrestrial networks (TNs) is key to enhancing coverage, capacity, and reliability in future wireless communications. However, the multi-tier, heterogeneous architecture of these integrated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Muhammad Umer , Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Ali Arshad Nasir , Hatem Abou-Zeid , Syed ALi Hassan

As artificial intelligence (AI) applications continue to expand in next-generation networks, there is a growing need for deep neural network (DNN) models. Although DNN models deployed at the edge are promising for providing AI as a service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Alireza Maleki , Hamed Shah-Mansouri , Babak H. Khalaj

The proliferation of GPU accelerated edge devices like Nvidia Jetsons and the rise in privacy concerns are placing an emphasis on concurrent DNN training and inferencing on edge devices. Inference and training have different computing and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Prashanthi S. K. , Saisamarth Taluri , Pranav Gupta , Amartya Ranjan Saikia , Kunal Kumar Sahoo , Atharva Vinay Joshi , Lakshya Karwa , Kedar Dhule , Yogesh Simmhan

This paper describes neural-fortran, a parallel Fortran framework for neural networks and deep learning. It features a simple interface to construct feed-forward neural networks of arbitrary structure and size, several activation functions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Milan Curcic

Training a deep neural network (DNN) requires substantial computational and memory requirements. It is common to use multiple devices to train a DNN to reduce the overall training time. There are several choices to parallelize each layer in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Venmugil Elango

Scaling long-context capabilities is crucial for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, real-world multimodal datasets are extremely heterogeneous. Existing training frameworks predominantly rely on static parallelism…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yifan Niu , Han Xiao , Dongyi Liu , Wei Zhou , Jia Li

In the era of deep learning (DL), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and large language models (LLMs), machine learning (ML) models are becoming increasingly complex, demanding significant computational resources for both inference and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Madison Threadgill , Andreas Gerstlauer

Benefitting from large-scale training datasets and the complex training network, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely applied in various fields with high accuracy. However, the training process of CNNs is very time-consuming,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Jianguo Chen , Kenli Li , Kashif Bilal , Xu Zhou , Keqin Li , Philip S. Yu

This paper proposes an innovative approach to Hierarchical Edge Aware 3D Point Cloud Learning (HEA-Net) that seeks to address the challenges of noise in point cloud data, and improve object recognition and segmentation by focusing on edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Lei Li

This work proposes RaNNC (Rapid Neural Network Connector) as middleware for automatic hybrid parallelism. In recent deep learning research, as exemplified by T5 and GPT-3, the size of neural network models continues to grow. Since such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Masahiro Tanaka , Kenjiro Taura , Toshihiro Hanawa , Kentaro Torisawa

The efficient deployment and fine-tuning of foundation models are pivotal in contemporary artificial intelligence. In this study, we present a groundbreaking paradigm integrating Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) with foundation models,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Wenhan Yu , Terence Jie Chua , Jun Zhao

Foundation models are becoming the dominant deep learning technologies. Pretraining a foundation model is always time-consumed due to the large scale of both the model parameter and training dataset. Besides being computing-intensive, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Zhiquan Lai , Shengwei Li , Xudong Tang , Keshi Ge , Weijie Liu , Yabo Duan , Linbo Qiao , Dongsheng Li

We study the problem of distributed training of neural networks (NNs) on devices with heterogeneous, limited, and time-varying availability of computational resources. We present an adaptive, resource-aware, on-device learning mechanism,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Martin Rapp , Ramin Khalili , Kilian Pfeiffer , Jörg Henkel

Device-edge collaborative inference with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) faces fundamental trade-offs among accuracy, latency and energy consumption. Current scheduling exhibits two drawbacks: a granularity mismatch between coarse, task-level…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Zengzipeng Tang , Yuxuan Sun , Wei Chen , Jianwen Ding , Bo Ai , Yulin Shao

Deep neural networks ( DNNs ) are becoming a key enabling technology for many application domains. However, on-device inference on battery-powered, resource-constrained embedding systems is often infeasible due to prohibitively long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Vicent Sanz Marco , Ben Taylor , Zheng Wang , Yehia Elkhatib

Federated Learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving framework for training machine learning models on mobile edge devices. Traditional FL algorithms, e.g., FedAvg, impose a heavy communication workload on these devices. To mitigate this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zhidong Gao , Yu Zhang , Yanmin Gong , Yuanxiong Guo

The world needs diverse and unbiased data to train deep learning models. Currently data comes from a variety of sources that are unmoderated to a large extent. The outcomes of training neural networks with unverified data yields biased…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Vaibhav Mathur , Karanbir Chahal

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained mobile devices presents significant challenges, particularly in achieving real-time performance while simultaneously coping with limited computational resources and battery life.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zekai Sun , Xiuxian Guan , Zheng Lin , Zihan Fang , Xiangming Cai , Zhe Chen , Fangming Liu , Heming Cui , Jie Xiong , Wei Ni , Chau Yuen