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In this work, we present TinyTNAS, a novel hardware-aware multi-objective Neural Architecture Search (NAS) tool specifically designed for TinyML time series classification. Unlike traditional NAS methods that rely on GPU capabilities,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Bidyut Saha , Riya Samanta , Soumya K. Ghosh , Ram Babu Roy

Deploying deep learning models on mobile devices draws more and more attention recently. However, designing an efficient inference engine on devices is under the great challenges of model compatibility, device diversity, and resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Xiaotang Jiang , Huan Wang , Yiliu Chen , Ziqi Wu , Lichuan Wang , Bin Zou , Yafeng Yang , Zongyang Cui , Yu Cai , Tianhang Yu , Chengfei Lv , Zhihua Wu

Running machine learning inference on tiny devices, known as TinyML, is an emerging research area. This task requires generating inference code that uses memory frugally, a task that standard ML frameworks are ill-suited for. A deployment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Shikhar Jaiswal , Rahul Kiran Kranti Goli , Aayan Kumar , Vivek Seshadri , Rahul Sharma

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

Recent advancements in machine learning (ML) have enabled its deployment on resource-constrained edge devices, fostering innovative applications such as intelligent environmental sensing. However, these devices, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yi Hu , Jinhang Zuo , Eddie Zhang , Bob Iannucci , Carlee Joe-Wong

The emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) applications requires intelligence on the edge. Microcontrollers provide a low-cost compute platform to deploy intelligent IoT applications using machine learning at scale, but have extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Aakanksha Chowdhery , Pete Warden , Jonathon Shlens , Andrew Howard , Rocky Rhodes

As Machine Learning (ML) becomes integral to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), there is growing interest in shifting training from traditional cloud-based to on-device processing (TinyML), for example, due to privacy and latency concerns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Alexander Gräfe , Fabian Mager , Marco Zimmerling , Sebastian Trimpe

Though deep neural network models exhibit outstanding performance for various applications, their large model size and extensive floating-point operations render deployment on mobile computing platforms a major challenge, and, in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Huming Qiu , Hua Ma , Zhi Zhang , Yifeng Zheng , Anmin Fu , Pan Zhou , Yansong Gao , Derek Abbott , Said F. Al-Sarawi

In this paper, we introduce a memory-efficient CNN (convolutional neural network), which enables resource-constrained low-end embedded and IoT devices to perform on-device vision tasks, such as image classification and object detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jaewook Lee , Yoel Park , Seulki Lee

Monitoring and detecting abnormal events in cyber-physical systems is crucial to industrial production. With the prevalent deployment of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), an enormous amount of time series data is collected to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Yuting Sun , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Object detection and tracking are challenging tasks for resource-constrained embedded systems. While these tasks are among the most compute-intensive tasks from the artificial intelligence domain, they are only allowed to use limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Xiaofan Zhang , Haoming Lu , Cong Hao , Jiachen Li , Bowen Cheng , Yuhong Li , Kyle Rupnow , Jinjun Xiong , Thomas Huang , Honghui Shi , Wen-mei Hwu , Deming Chen

Intelligent mobile agents (e.g., UGVs and UAVs) typically demand low power/energy consumption when solving their machine learning (ML)-based tasks, since they are usually powered by portable batteries with limited capacity. A potential…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Shafique

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of lightweight deep learning models for image classification, emphasizing their suitability for deployment in resource-constrained environments such as low-memory devices. Five state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Tasnim Shahriar

This paper presents a hardware-efficient deep neural network (DNN), optimized through hardware-aware neural architecture search (HW-NAS); the DNN supports the classification of session-level encrypted traffic on resource-constrained…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Adel Chehade , Edoardo Ragusa , Paolo Gastaldo , Rodolfo Zunino

Due to limited computational cost and energy consumption, most neural network models deployed in mobile devices are tiny. However, tiny neural networks are commonly very vulnerable to attacks. Current research has proved that larger model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Guoyang Xie , Jinbao Wang , Guo Yu , Feng Zheng , Yaochu Jin

Exploiting big data knowledge on small devices will pave the way for building truly cognitive Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Although machine learning has led to great advancements for IoT-based data analytics, there remains a huge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Benjamin Sliwa , Nico Piatkowski , Christian Wietfeld

Deep neural networks achieve outstanding results in challenging image classification tasks. However, the design of network topologies is a complex task and the research community makes a constant effort in discovering top-accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Florian Scheidegger , Luca Benini , Costas Bekas , Cristiano Malossi

This letter introduces an energy-efficient pull-based data collection framework for Internet of Things (IoT) devices that use Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) to interpret data queries. A TinyML model is transmitted from the edge server to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Junya Shiraishi , Mathias Thorsager , Shashi Raj Pandey , Petar Popovski

Advances in deep learning have led to state-of-the-art performance across a multitude of speech recognition tasks. Nevertheless, the widespread deployment of deep neural networks for on-device speech recognition remains a challenge,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-14 Alexander Wong , Mahmoud Famouri , Maya Pavlova , Siddharth Surana

We train and deploy a quantized 1D convolutional neural network model to conduct speech recognition on a highly resource-constrained IoT edge device. This can be useful in various Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as smart homes…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Andrew Barovic , Armin Moin