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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown significant advantages in a wide variety of domains. However, DNNs are becoming computationally intensive and energy hungry at an exponential pace, while at the same time, there is a vast demand for…

Data stream processing is an increasingly important topic due to the prevalence of smart devices and the demand for real-time analytics. Geo-distributed streaming systems, where cloud-based queries utilize data streams from multiple…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Joel Wolfrath , Abhishek Chandra

Edge AI systems often operate under stringent energy and volume constraints that demand extreme efficiency under limited battery capacity, with requirements worsening as intelligent capability demands advance. Prior literature suggests that…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Paul Chen , Jeongeun Kim , Wenbo Zhu , Yuanhan Li , Shunyao Huang , Chenjie Weng , Christopher Torng

The rise of mobile AI accelerators allows latency-sensitive applications to execute lightweight Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on the client side. However, critical applications require powerful models that edge devices cannot host and must…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Alireza Furutanpey , Philipp Raith , Schahram Dustdar

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer significant potential for enabling energy-efficient intelligence at the edge. However, performing full SNN inference at the edge can be challenging due to the latency and energy constraints arising from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Maurf Hassan , Steven Davy , Muhammad Zawish , Owais Bin Zuber , Nouman Ashraf

Edge computing has been emerging as a popular scenario for model inference. However, the inference performance on edge devices (e.g., Multi-Core DSP, FGPA, etc.) suffers from inefficiency due to the lack of highly optimized inference…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Zhang Runhua , Jiang Hongxu , Tian Fangzheng , Geng Jinkun , Li Xiaobin , Ma Yuhang , Zhu Chenhui , Dong Dong , Li Xin , Wang Haojie

In today's world, a vast amount of data is being generated by edge devices that can be used as valuable training data to improve the performance of machine learning algorithms in terms of the achieved accuracy or to reduce the compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Aditya Rajagopal , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Mobile and embedded machine learning developers frequently have to compromise between two inferior on-device deployment strategies: sacrifice accuracy and aggressively shrink their models to run on dedicated low-power cores; or sacrifice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Haiguang Li , Trausti Thormundsson , Ivan Poupyrev , Nicholas Gillian

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have driven increasing intelligent applications at the network edge, such as smart home, smart factory, and smart city. To deploy computationally intensive Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Liekang Zeng , Xu Chen , Zhi Zhou , Lei Yang , Junshan Zhang

Dilated and transposed convolutions are widely used in modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs). These kernels are used extensively during CNN training and inference of applications such as image segmentation and high-resolution image…

The recent advances in deep neural networks (DNNs) make them attractive for embedded systems. However, it can take a long time for DNNs to make an inference on resource-constrained computing devices. Model compression techniques can address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Qing Qin , Jie Ren , Jialong Yu , Ling Gao , Hai Wang , Jie Zheng , Yansong Feng , Jianbin Fang , Zheng Wang

Conventionally, DNN models are trained once in the cloud and deployed in edge devices such as cars, robots, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for real-time inference. However, there are many cases that require the models to adapt to new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yue Tang , Xinyi Zhang , Peipei Zhou , Jingtong Hu

Computing-In-Memory (CIM) offers a potential solution to the memory wall issue and can achieve high energy efficiency by minimizing data movement, making it a promising architecture for edge AI devices. Lightweight models like MobileNet and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Choongseok Song , Doo Seok Jeong

This paper studies the computational offloading of CNN inference in dynamic multi-access edge computing (MEC) networks. To address the uncertainties in communication time and computation resource availability, we propose a novel semantic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Nan Li , Alexandros Iosifidis , Qi Zhang

Crack segmentation on edge devices can support continuous infrastructure monitoring and maintenance and thereby help to preserve public safety. Furthermore, autonomous infrastructure monitoring by using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Matthias Tschope , Mohamed Moursi , Vladimir Rybalkin , Bo Zhou , Norbert Wehn , Paul Lukowicz

Data compression is an efficient technique to save data storage and transmission costs. However, traditional data compression methods always ignore the impact of user preferences on the statistical distributions of symbols transmitted over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Yawei Lu , Wei Chen , H. Vincent Poor

Traditional ML inference is evolving toward modeless inference, which abstracts the complexity of model selection from users, allowing the system to automatically choose the most appropriate model for each request based on accuracy and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 ChonLam Lao , Jiaqi Gao , Ganesh Ananthanarayanan , Aditya Akella , Minlan Yu

This work evaluates the compression techniques on ConvNeXt models in image classification tasks using the CIFAR-10 dataset. Structured pruning, unstructured pruning, and dynamic quantization methods are evaluated to reduce model size and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Samer Francy , Raghubir Singh

We study the problem of finding efficient sampling policies in an edge-based feedback system, where sensor samples are offloaded to a back-end server that processes them and generates feedback to a user. Sampling the system at maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Vishnu Narayanan Moothedath , Jaya Prakash Champati , James Gross

Edge machine learning involves the deployment of learning algorithms at the network edge to leverage massive distributed data and computation resources to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. Among others, the framework of federated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Qunsong Zeng , Yuqing Du , Kaibin Huang , Kin K. Leung