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By adding exiting layers to the deep learning networks, early exit can terminate the inference earlier with accurate results. The passive decision-making of whether to exit or continue the next layer has to go through every pre-placed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Xiangjie Li , Chenfei Lou , Zhengping Zhu , Yuchi Chen , Yingtao Shen , Yehan Ma , An Zou

On-device training for personalized learning is a challenging research problem. Being able to quickly adapt deep prediction models at the edge is necessary to better suit personal user needs. However, adaptation on the edge poses some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Lorenzo Pellegrini , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Gabriele Graffieti , Davide Maltoni

The ability to perform computation on devices, such as smartphones, cars, or other nodes present at the Internet of Things leads to constraints regarding bandwidth, storage, and energy, as most of these devices are mobile and operate on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Natascha Harth , Hans-Joerg Voegel , Kostas Kolomvatsos , Christos Anagnostopoulos

On-device training is currently the most common approach for training machine learning (ML) models on private, distributed user data. Despite this, on-device training has several drawbacks: (1) most user devices are too small to train large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Charlie Hou , Akshat Shrivastava , Hongyuan Zhan , Rylan Conway , Trang Le , Adithya Sagar , Giulia Fanti , Daniel Lazar

On-device recommender systems recently have garnered increasing attention due to their advantages of providing prompt response and securing privacy. To stay current with evolving user interests, cloud-based recommender systems are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Xin Xia , Junliang Yu , Guandong Xu , Hongzhi Yin

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

DNNs are becoming less and less over-parametrised due to recent advances in efficient model design, through careful hand-crafted or NAS-based methods. Relying on the fact that not all inputs require the same amount of computation to yield a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Stefanos Laskaridis , Alexandros Kouris , Nicholas D. Lane

As Internet of Things (IoT) technology advances, end devices like sensors and smartphones are progressively equipped with AI models tailored to their local memory and computational constraints. Local inference reduces communication costs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Caelin Kaplan , Angelo Rodio , Tareq Si Salem , Chuan Xu , Giovanni Neglia

Early exiting allows instances to exit at different layers according to the estimation of difficulty. Previous works usually adopt heuristic metrics such as the entropy of internal outputs to measure instance difficulty, which suffers from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Tianxiang Sun , Xiangyang Liu , Wei Zhu , Zhichao Geng , Lingling Wu , Yilong He , Yuan Ni , Guotong Xie , Xuanjing Huang , Xipeng Qiu

Edge learning facilitates ubiquitous intelligence by enabling model training and adaptation directly on data-generating devices, thereby mitigating privacy risks and communication latency. However, the high computational and energy overhead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Laha Ale , Hu Luo , Mingsheng Cao , Shichao Li , Huanlai Xing , Haifeng Sun

On-device learning has emerged as a promising direction for AI development, particularly because of its potential to reduce latency issues and mitigate privacy risks associated with device-server communication, while improving energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Le-Trung Nguyen , Ael Quelennec , Van-Tam Nguyen , Enzo Tartaglione

Deep neural networks have long training and processing times. Early exits added to neural networks allow the network to make early predictions using intermediate activations in the network in time-sensitive applications. However, early…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Devdhar Patel , Hava Siegelmann

Machine learning models are widely integrated into modern mobile apps to analyze user behaviors and deliver personalized services. Ensuring low-latency on-device model execution is critical for maintaining high-quality user experiences.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chen Gong , Zhenzhe Zheng , Yiliu Chen , Sheng Wang , Fan Wu , Guihai Chen

Early exiting is an effective paradigm for improving the inference efficiency of pre-trained language models (PLMs) by dynamically adjusting the number of executed layers for each sample. However, in most existing works, easy and hard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jianing He , Qi Zhang , Hongyun Zhang , Xuanjing Huang , Usman Naseem , Duoqian Miao

Deploying Machine learning (ML) on milliwatt-scale edge devices (tinyML) is gaining popularity due to recent breakthroughs in ML and Internet of Things (IoT). Most tinyML research focuses on model compression techniques that trade accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Nikhil P Ghanathe , Steve Wilton

The growing demand for intelligent applications beyond the network edge, coupled with the need for sustainable operation, are driving the seamless integration of deep learning (DL) algorithms into energy-limited, and even energy-harvesting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Marcello Bullo , Seifallah Jardak , Pietro Carnelli , Deniz Gündüz

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have grown increasingly large in size to achieve state of the art performance across a wide range of tasks. However, their high computational requirements make them less suitable for resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

This paper presents a modular approach to accelerate inference in large language models (LLMs) by adding early exit heads at intermediate transformer layers. Each head is trained in a self-supervised manner to mimic the main model's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Florian Valade

Deep learning (DL) techniques are increasingly pervasive across various domains, including wireless communication, where they extract insights from raw radio signals. However, the computational demands of DL pose significant challenges,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Dieter Verbruggen , Hazem Sallouha , Sofie Pollin

We focus on computation offloading of applications based on convolutional neural network (CNN) from moving devices, such as mobile robots or autonomous vehicles, to MultiAccess Edge Computing (MEC) servers via a mobile network. In order to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jan Danek , Zdenek Becvar , Adam Janes