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We evolve PyDTNN, a framework for distributed parallel training of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), into an efficient inference tool for convolutional neural networks. Our optimization process on multicore ARM processors involves several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Adrián Castelló , Sergio Barrachina , Manuel F. Dolz , Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí , Pau San Juan

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have driven increasing intelligent applications at the network edge, such as smart home, smart factory, and smart city. To deploy computationally intensive Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Liekang Zeng , Xu Chen , Zhi Zhou , Lei Yang , Junshan Zhang

Wearable devices are revolutionizing personal technology, but their usability is often hindered by frequent charging due to high power consumption. This paper introduces Distributed Neural Networks (DistNN), a framework that distributes…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Meghna Roy Chowdhury , Ming-che Li , Archisman Ghosh , Md Faizul Bari , Shreyas Sen

While machine learning is traditionally a resource intensive task, embedded systems, autonomous navigation, and the vision of the Internet of Things fuel the interest in resource-efficient approaches. These approaches aim for a carefully…

The computational demands of modern Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are immense and constantly growing. While training costs usually capture public attention, inference demands are also contributing in significant computational, energy and…

Distributed inference techniques can be broadly classified into data-distributed and model-distributed schemes. In data-distributed inference (DDI), each worker carries the entire deep neural network (DNN) model but processes only a subset…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Marco Colocrese , Erdem Koyuncu , Hulya Seferoglu

Over the last few years, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become ubiquitous owing to their high accuracy on real-world tasks. However, this increase in accuracy comes at the cost of computationally expensive models leading to higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Adarsh Kumar , Arjun Balasubramanian , Shivaram Venkataraman , Aditya Akella

Computing at the edge is increasingly important since a massive amount of data is generated. This poses challenges in transporting all that data to the remote data centers and cloud, where they can be processed and analyzed. On the other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Christian Makaya , Amalendu Iyer , Jonathan Salfity , Madhu Athreya , M Anthony Lewis

Computer vision on low-power edge devices enables applications including search-and-rescue and security. State-of-the-art computer vision algorithms, such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), are too large for inference on low-power edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Abhinav Goel , Caleb Tung , Xiao Hu , George K. Thiruvathukal , James C. Davis , Yung-Hsiang Lu

Deep neural networks (DNN) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision (CV). However, training and inference of DNN models are both memory and computation intensive, incurring significant overhead in terms of energy consumption and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Tao Luo , Wai Teng Tang , Matthew Kay Fei Lee , Chuping Qu , Weng-Fai Wong , Rick Goh

Deluge Networks (DelugeNets) are deep neural networks which efficiently facilitate massive cross-layer information inflows from preceding layers to succeeding layers. The connections between layers in DelugeNets are established through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Jason Kuen , Xiangfei Kong , Gang Wang , Yap-Peng Tan

Due to limited resources on edge and different characteristics of deep neural network (DNN) models, it is a big challenge to optimize DNN inference performance in terms of energy consumption and end-to-end latency on edge devices. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Ziyang Zhang , Yang Zhao , Huan Li , Changyao Lin , Jie Liu

Deep learning recommendation models have grown to the terabyte scale. Traditional serving schemes--that load entire models to a single server--are unable to support this scale. One approach to support this scale is with distributed serving,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Michael Lui , Yavuz Yetim , Özgür Özkan , Zhuoran Zhao , Shin-Yeh Tsai , Carole-Jean Wu , Mark Hempstead

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

Deep neural network (DNN) partition is a research problem that involves splitting a DNN into multiple parts and offloading them to specific locations. Because of the recent advancement in multi-access edge computing and edge intelligence,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Di Xu , Xiang He , Tonghua Su , Zhongjie Wang

As deep neural networks continue to expand and become more complex, most edge devices are unable to handle their extensive processing requirements. Therefore, the concept of distributed inference is essential to distribute the neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Fazeela Mazhar Khan , Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Mounir Hamdi

Many recent pattern recognition applications rely on complex distributed architectures in which sensing and computational nodes interact together through a communication network. Deep neural networks (DNNs) play an important role in this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Luigi Capogrosso , Federico Cunico , Michele Lora , Marco Cristani , Franco Fummi , Davide Quaglia

Deep neural networks (DNNs) exploit many layers and a large number of parameters to achieve excellent performance. The training process of DNN models generally handles large-scale input data with many sparse features, which incurs high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Ji Liu , Zhihua Wu , Dianhai Yu , Yanjun Ma , Danlei Feng , Minxu Zhang , Xinxuan Wu , Xuefeng Yao , Dejing Dou

We propose a reconfigurable hardware architecture for deep neural networks (DNNs) capable of online training and inference, which uses algorithmically pre-determined, structured sparsity to significantly lower memory and computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Sourya Dey , Yinan Shao , Keith M. Chugg , Peter A. Beerel

Deep neural networks ( DNNs ) are becoming a key enabling technology for many application domains. However, on-device inference on battery-powered, resource-constrained embedding systems is often infeasible due to prohibitively long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Vicent Sanz Marco , Ben Taylor , Zheng Wang , Yehia Elkhatib