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Deep neural networks have become ubiquitous for applications related to visual recognition and language understanding tasks. However, it is often prohibitive to use typical neural networks on devices like mobile phones or smart watches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Sujith Ravi

Deep Learning is becoming increasingly relevant in Embedded and Internet-of-things applications. However, deploying models on embedded devices poses a challenge due to their resource limitations. This can impact the model's inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Max Sponner , Lorenzo Servadei , Bernd Waschneck , Robert Wille , Akash Kumar

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models have recently demonstrated exceptional performance across a diverse range of applications. The principle of sparse activation in MoE models facilitates an offloading strategy, wherein active experts are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yushu Zhao , Yubin Qin , Yang Wang , Xiaolong Yang , Huiming Han , Shaojun Wei , Yang Hu , Shouyi Yin

The advent of large language models (LLMs) revolutionized natural language processing applications, and running LLMs on edge devices has become increasingly attractive for reasons including reduced latency, data localization, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jiajun Xu , Zhiyuan Li , Wei Chen , Qun Wang , Xin Gao , Qi Cai , Ziyuan Ling

After a large language model (LLM) is deployed on edge devices, it is desirable for these devices to learn from user-generated conversation data to generate user-specific and personalized responses in real-time. However, user-generated data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Ruiyang Qin , Jun Xia , Zhenge Jia , Meng Jiang , Ahmed Abbasi , Peipei Zhou , Jingtong Hu , Yiyu Shi

Early-exiting neural networks enable adaptive inference by allowing inputs to exit at intermediate classifiers, reducing computation for easy samples while maintaining high accuracy. In practice, exits can be trained sequentially by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Alaa Zniber , Ouassim Karrakchou , Mounir Ghogho

We present an approach to adaptively utilize deep neural networks in order to reduce the evaluation time on new examples without loss of accuracy. Rather than attempting to redesign or approximate existing networks, we propose two schemes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Tolga Bolukbasi , Joseph Wang , Ofer Dekel , Venkatesh Saligrama

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been increasingly deployed on and integrated with edge devices, such as mobile phones, drones, robots and wearables. To run DNN inference directly on edge devices (a.k.a. edge inference) with a satisfactory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Bingqian Lu , Jianyi Yang , Shaolei Ren

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

To safeguard user data privacy, on-device inference has emerged as a prominent paradigm on mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This paradigm involves deploying a model provided by a third party on local devices to perform inference…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Tong Sun , Bowen Jiang , Hailong Lin , Borui Li , Yixiao Teng , Yi Gao , Wei Dong

Machine learning (ML) inference platforms are tasked with balancing two competing goals: ensuring high throughput given many requests, and delivering low-latency responses to support interactive applications. Unfortunately, existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yinwei Dai , Rui Pan , Anand Iyer , Kai Li , Ravi Netravali

This paper proposes Mandheling, the first system that enables highly resource-efficient on-device training by orchestrating the mixed-precision training with on-chip Digital Signal Processing (DSP) offloading. Mandheling fully explores the…

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More and more edge devices and mobile apps are leveraging deep learning (DL) capabilities. Deploying such models on devices -- referred to as on-device models -- rather than as remote cloud-hosted services, has gained popularity because it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Mingyi Zhou , Xiang Gao , Jing Wu , John Grundy , Xiao Chen , Chunyang Chen , Li Li

Performing deep learning on end-user devices provides fast offline inference results and can help protect the user's privacy. However, running models on untrusted client devices reveals model information which may be proprietary, i.e., the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Peter M. VanNostrand , Ioannis Kyriazis , Michelle Cheng , Tian Guo , Robert J. Walls

Resource constraints have restricted several EdgeAI applications to machine learning inference approaches, where models are trained on the cloud and deployed to the edge device. This poses challenges such as bandwidth, latency, and privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Atah Nuh Mih , Hung Cao , Asfia Kawnine , Monica Wachowicz

Microcontroller Units (MCUs) are ideal platforms for edge applications due to their low cost and energy consumption, and are widely used in various applications, including personalized machine learning tasks, where customized models can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yushan Huang , Ranya Aloufi , Xavier Cadet , Yuchen Zhao , Payam Barnaghi , Hamed Haddadi

For many practical applications, a high computational cost of inference over deep network architectures might be unacceptable. A small degradation in the overall inference accuracy might be a reasonable price to pay for a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Assaf Lahiany , Yehudit Aperstein

Edge intelligence enables resource-demanding Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference without transferring original data, addressing concerns about data privacy in consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices. For privacy-sensitive applications,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xueshuo Xie , Haoxu Wang , Zhaolong Jian , Tao Li , Wei Wang , Zhiwei Xu , Guiling Wang

With the widespread adoption of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, there is a growing demand for efficient inference on memory-constrained devices. While offloading expert parameters to CPU memory and loading activated experts on demand has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yuxin Zhou , Zheng Li , Jun Zhang , Jue Wang , Yiping Wang , Zhongle Xie , Ke Chen , Lidan Shou

As the number of edge devices with computing resources (e.g., embedded GPUs, mobile phones, and laptops) increases, recent studies demonstrate that it can be beneficial to collaboratively run convolutional neural network (CNN) inference on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Xueyu Hou , Yongjie Guan , Tao Han , Ning Zhang