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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

Embedded Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (eFPGAs) allow for the design of hardware accelerators of edge Machine Learning (ML) applications at a lower power budget compared with traditional FPGA platforms. However, the limited eFPGA logic and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Tousif Rahman , Gang Mao , Bob Pattison , Sidharth Maheshwari , Marcos Sartori , Adrian Wheeldon , Rishad Shafik , Alex Yakovlev

The increase in open-source availability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled users to deploy them on more and more resource-constrained edge devices to reduce reliance on network connections and provide more privacy. However, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Jude Haris , Rappy Saha , Wenhao Hu , José Cano

In this current technological world, the application of machine learning is becoming ubiquitous. Incorporating machine learning algorithms on extremely low-power and inexpensive embedded devices at the edge level is now possible due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Harsha Yelchuri , Rashmi R

Edge computing for neural networks is getting important especially for low power applications and offline devices. TensorFlow Lite and PyTorch Mobile were released for this purpose. But they mainly support mobile devices instead of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Hasan Unlu

Transformer networks are rapidly becoming SotA in many fields, such as NLP and CV. Similarly to CNN, there is a strong push for deploying Transformer models at the extreme edge, ultimately fitting the tiny power budget and memory footprint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Victor J. B. Jung , Alessio Burrello , Moritz Scherer , Francesco Conti , Luca Benini

Existing attention accelerators often trade exact softmax semantics, depend on fused Tensor Core kernels, or incur sequential depth that limits FP32 throughput on long sequences. We present \textbf{ELSA}, an algorithmic reformulation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chih-Chung Hsu , Xin-Di Ma , Wo-Ting Liao , Chia-Ming Lee

The paradigm shift towards local and on-device inference under stringent resource constraints is represented by the tiny machine learning (TinyML) domain. The primary goal of TinyML is to integrate intelligence into tiny, low-cost devices…

This paper introduces EdgeProfiler, a fast profiling framework designed for evaluating lightweight Large Language Models (LLMs) on edge systems. While LLMs offer remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding and generation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Alyssa Pinnock , Shakya Jayakody , Kawsher A Roxy , Md Rubel Ahmed

The advent of ultra-low-bit LLM models (1/1.58/2-bit), which match the perplexity and end-task performance of their full-precision counterparts using the same model size, is ushering in a new era of LLM inference for resource-constrained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Evangelos Georganas , Dhiraj Kalamkar , Alexander Heinecke

The recent widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) and machine learning in general has sparked research interest in exploring the possibilities of deploying these models on smaller devices such as laptops and mobile phones. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Oluwaseun A. Ajayi , Ogundepo Odunayo

Machine learning on tiny IoT devices based on microcontroller units (MCU) is appealing but challenging: the memory of microcontrollers is 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller even than mobile phones. We propose MCUNet, a framework that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Ji Lin , Wei-Ming Chen , Yujun Lin , John Cohn , Chuang Gan , Song Han

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is widely used in speech recognition. In order to achieve higher prediction accuracy, machine learning scientists have built larger and larger models. Such large model is both computation intensive and memory…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Song Han , Junlong Kang , Huizi Mao , Yiming Hu , Xin Li , Yubin Li , Dongliang Xie , Hong Luo , Song Yao , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang , William J. Dally

The growing demand for low-power and area-efficient TinyML inference on AIoT devices necessitates memory architectures that minimise data movement while sustaining high computational efficiency. This paper presents FERMI-ML, a Flexible and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mukul Lokhande , Akash Sankhe , S. V. Jaya Chand , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

In this paper, we propose a new secure machine learning inference platform assisted by a small dedicated security processor, which will be easier to protect and deploy compared to today's TEEs integrated into high-performance processors.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Pengzhi Huang , Thang Hoang , Yueying Li , Elaine Shi , G. Edward Suh

Tiny machine learning (TinyML) is a rapidly growing field aiming to democratize machine learning (ML) for resource-constrained microcontrollers (MCUs). Given the pervasiveness of these tiny devices, it is inherent to ask whether TinyML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Haoyu Ren , Darko Anicic , Thomas A. Runkler

As technology advances, the use of Machine Learning (ML) in cybersecurity is becoming increasingly crucial to tackle the growing complexity of cyber threats. While traditional ML models can enhance cybersecurity, their high energy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Fatemeh Dehrouyeh , Li Yang , Firouz Badrkhani Ajaei , Abdallah Shami

The emergence of Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) has positively revolutionized the field of Artificial Intelligence by promoting the joint design of resource-constrained IoT hardware devices and their learning-based software architectures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Luigi Capogrosso , Federico Cunico , Dong Seon Cheng , Franco Fummi , Marco Cristani

This paper presents the first demonstration of a viable, ultra-fast, radiation-hard machine learning (ML) application on FPGAs, which could be used in future high-energy physics experiments. We present a three-fold contribution, with the…