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Executing machine learning workloads locally on resource constrained microcontrollers (MCUs) promises to drastically expand the application space of IoT. However, so-called TinyML presents severe technical challenges, as deep neural network…

IoT devices are powered by microcontroller units (MCUs) which are extremely resource-scarce: a typical MCU may have an underpowered processor and around 64 KB of memory and persistent storage, which is orders of magnitude fewer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Edgar Liberis , Łukasz Dudziak , Nicholas D. Lane

Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) is a new frontier of machine learning. By squeezing deep learning models into billions of IoT devices and microcontrollers (MCUs), we expand the scope of AI applications and enable ubiquitous intelligence.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ji Lin , Ligeng Zhu , Wei-Ming Chen , Wei-Chen Wang , Song Han

Tiny deep learning on microcontroller units (MCUs) is challenging due to the limited memory size. We find that the memory bottleneck is due to the imbalanced memory distribution in convolutional neural network (CNN) designs: the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Ji Lin , Wei-Ming Chen , Han Cai , Chuang Gan , Song Han

IoT devices based on microcontroller units (MCU) provide ultra-low power consumption and ubiquitous computation for near-sensor deep learning models (DNN). However, the memory of MCU is usually 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller than mobile…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Size Zheng , Renze Chen , Meng Li , Zihao Ye , Luis Ceze , Yun Liang

The rapid proliferation of computing domains relying on Internet of Things (IoT) devices has created a pressing need for efficient and accurate deep-learning (DL) models that can run on low-power devices. However, traditional DL models tend…

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) effectively discovers new Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures, particularly for accuracy optimization. However, prior approaches often require resource-intensive training on super networks or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ye Qiao , Haocheng Xu , Yifan Zhang , Sitao Huang

Tiny machine learning (TinyML) is a fast-growing research area committed to democratizing deep learning for all-pervasive microcontrollers (MCUs). Challenged by the constraints on power, memory, and computation, TinyML has achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Haoyu Ren , Darko Anicic , Thomas Runkler

The rapid growth of microcontroller-based IoT devices has opened up numerous applications, from smart manufacturing to personalized healthcare. Despite the widespread adoption of energy-efficient microcontroller units (MCUs) in the Tiny…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Giorgos Armeniakos , Georgios Mentzos , Dimitrios Soudris

IoT devices particularly microcontrollers are challenged by their inherent limitations in processing capabilities, memory capacity, and energy conservation. Securing communication within IoT networks is further complicated by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Vasilis Ieropoulos , Eirini Anthi , Theodoros Spyridopoulos , Pete Burnap , Aftab Khan , Pietro Carnelli

Developing deep learning models on tiny devices (e.g. Microcontroller units, MCUs) has attracted much attention in various embedded IoT applications. However, it is challenging to efficiently design and deploy recent advanced models (e.g.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jianlei Yang , Jiacheng Liao , Fanding Lei , Meichen Liu , Lingkun Long , Junyi Chen , Han Wan , Bei Yu , Weisheng Zhao

The field of Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) has gained significant attention due to its potential to enable intelligent applications on resource-constrained devices. This review provides an in-depth analysis of the advancements in efficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-21 Minh Tri Lê , Pierre Wolinski , Julyan Arbel

While significant advances in deep learning has resulted in state-of-the-art performance across a large number of complex visual perception tasks, the widespread deployment of deep neural networks for TinyML applications involving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Alexander Wong , Mahmoud Famouri , Mohammad Javad Shafiee

Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) is a novel research field aiming at integrating Machine Learning (ML) within embedded devices with limited memory, computation, and energy. Recently, a new branch of TinyML has emerged, focusing on integrating…

The deployment of Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) on resource-constrained edge devices, such as microcontrollers (MCUs), introduces fundamental challenges in balancing model performance, computational complexity, and memory constraints.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hamza A. Abushahla , Dara Varam , Ariel Justine N. Panopio , Mohamed I. AlHajri

In recent years Deep Learning reached significant results in many practical problems, such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition and many others. For many years the main goal of the research was to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Alexey Letunovskiy , Vladimir Korviakov , Vladimir Polovnikov , Anastasiia Kargapoltseva , Ivan Mazurenko , Yepan Xiong

The vast majority of processors in the world are actually microcontroller units (MCUs), which find widespread use performing simple control tasks in applications ranging from automobiles to medical devices and office equipment. The Internet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Igor Fedorov , Ryan P. Adams , Matthew Mattina , Paul N. Whatmough

Due to the high price and heavy energy consumption of GPUs, deploying deep models on IoT devices such as microcontrollers makes significant contributions for ecological AI. Conventional methods successfully enable convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yinan Liang , Ziwei Wang , Xiuwei Xu , Yansong Tang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

In the Internet of Things era, where we see many interconnected and heterogeneous mobile and fixed smart devices, distributing the intelligence from the cloud to the edge has become a necessity. Due to limited computational and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Francesco Paissan , Alberto Ancilotto , Elisabetta Farella

Designing convolutional neural networks (CNN) for mobile devices is challenging because mobile models need to be small and fast, yet still accurate. Although significant efforts have been dedicated to design and improve mobile CNNs on all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Mingxing Tan , Bo Chen , Ruoming Pang , Vijay Vasudevan , Mark Sandler , Andrew Howard , Quoc V. Le
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