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Edge computing has gained significant traction in recent years, promising enhanced efficiency by integrating artificial intelligence capabilities at the edge. While the focus has primarily been on the deployment and inference of Machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Aymen Rayane Khouas , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Hakim Hacid , Sunil Aryal

The deployment of ML models on edge devices is challenged by limited computational resources and energy availability. While split computing enables the decomposition of large neural networks (NNs) and allows partial computation on both edge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Daniel May , Alessandro Tundo , Shashikant Ilager , Ivona Brandic

The rise of AI and the Internet of Things is accelerating the digital transformation of society. Mobility computing presents specific barriers due to its real-time requirements, decentralization, and connectivity through wireless networks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Javier Conde , Andrés Munoz-Arcentales , Álvaro Alonso , Joaquín Salvachúa , Gabriel Huecas

On-device inference holds great potential for increased energy efficiency, responsiveness, and privacy in edge ML systems. However, due to less capable ML models that can be embedded in resource-limited devices, use cases are limited to…

Large language models (LLMs) such as GPTs and Mixtral-8x7B have revolutionized machine intelligence due to their exceptional abilities in generic ML tasks. Transiting LLMs from datacenters to edge devices brings benefits like better privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Rongjie Yi , Liwei Guo , Shiyun Wei , Ao Zhou , Shangguang Wang , Mengwei Xu

The recent revival of artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing almost every branch of science and technology. Given the ubiquitous smart mobile gadgets and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, it is expected that a majority of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Guangxu Zhu , Dongzhu Liu , Yuqing Du , Changsheng You , Jun Zhang , Kaibin Huang

Autonomous nano-drones, powered by vision-based tiny machine learning (TinyML) models, are a novel technology gaining momentum thanks to their broad applicability and pushing scientific advancement on resource-limited embedded systems.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Elia Cereda , Alessandro Giusti , Daniele Palossi

Lightweight Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are indispensable for resource-constrained applications. The prevailing approach to aligning vision and language models involves freezing both the vision encoder and the language model while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yuanze Hu , Zhaoxin Fan , Xinyu Wang , Gen Li , Ye Qiu , Zhichao Yang , Wenjun Wu , Kejian Wu , Yifan Sun , Xiaotie Deng , Jin Dong

This paper investigates the energy savings that near-subthreshold processors can obtain in edge AI applications and proposes strategies to improve them while maintaining the accuracy of the application. The selected processors deploy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zichao Shen , Neil Howard , Jose Nunez-Yanez

Running deep neural networks (DNNs) on tiny Micro-controller Units (MCUs) is challenging due to their limitations in computing, memory, and storage capacity. Fortunately, recent advances in both MCU hardware and machine learning software…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Michael Bechtel , QiTao Weng , Heechul Yun

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved unprecedented success in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), including computer vision, natural language processing and speech recognition. However, their superior performance comes at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Han Cai , Ji Lin , Yujun Lin , Zhijian Liu , Haotian Tang , Hanrui Wang , Ligeng Zhu , Song Han

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become integral to modern technology, enhancing daily life and industrial processes through seamless connectivity. However, the rapid expansion of IoT systems presents significant sustainability challenges,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Luisa Schuhmacher , Jimmy Fernandez Landivar , Ihsane Gryech , Hazem Sallouha , Michele Rossi , Sofie Pollin

Deploying large language models (LLMs) on edge devices is crucial for delivering fast responses and ensuring data privacy. However, the limited storage, weight, and power of edge devices make it difficult to deploy LLM-powered applications.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chunlin Tian , Xinpeng Qin , Kahou Tam , Li Li , Zijian Wang , Yuanzhe Zhao , Minglei Zhang , Chengzhong Xu

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing with their exceptional understanding, synthesizing, and reasoning capabilities. However, deploying LLMs on resource-constrained edge devices presents significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yue Zheng , Yuhao Chen , Bin Qian , Xiufang Shi , Yuanchao Shu , Jiming Chen

The increasing interest in TinyML, i.e., near-sensor machine learning on power budgets of a few tens of mW, is currently pushing toward enabling TinyML-class training as opposed to inference only. Current training algorithms, based on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yvan Tortorella , Luca Bertaccini , Luca Benini , Davide Rossi , Francesco Conti

The ever-increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has created a new computing paradigm, called edge computing, where most of the computations are performed at the edge devices, rather than on centralized servers. An edge device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Sahar Voghoei , Navid Hashemi Tonekaboni , Jason G. Wallace , Hamid R. Arabnia

Currently, Machine Learning (ML) is becoming ubiquitous in everyday life. Deep Learning (DL) is already present in many applications ranging from computer vision for medicine to autonomous driving of modern cars as well as other sectors in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Maurizio Capra , Beatrice Bussolino , Alberto Marchisio , Guido Masera , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

Deploying TinyML models on low-cost IoT hardware is very challenging, due to limited device memory capacity. Neural processing unit (NPU) hardware address the memory challenge by using model compression to exploit weight quantization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Igor Fedorov , Ramon Matas , Hokchhay Tann , Chuteng Zhou , Matthew Mattina , Paul Whatmough

In a level-5 autonomous driving system, the autonomous driving vehicles (AVs) are expected to sense the surroundings via analyzing a large amount of data captured by a variety of onboard sensors in near-real-time. As a result, enormous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Kai Xiong , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan , Supeng Leng , Lijun Qian , Zhu Han

Machine Learning (ML) is profoundly reshaping the way researchers create, implement, and operate data-intensive software. Its adoption, however, introduces notable challenges for computing infrastructures, particularly when it comes to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Lucio Anderlini , Giulio Bianchini , Diego Ciangottini , Stefano Dal Pra , Diego Michelotto , Rosa Petrini , Daniele Spiga