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Recently, transformer-based networks have shown impressive results in semantic segmentation. Yet for real-time semantic segmentation, pure CNN-based approaches still dominate in this field, due to the time-consuming computation mechanism of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jian Wang , Chenhui Gou , Qiman Wu , Haocheng Feng , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

Ear recognition is a contactless and unobtrusive biometric technique with applications across various domains. However, deploying high-performing ear recognition models on resource-constrained devices is challenging, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Camile Lendering , Bernardo Perrone Ribeiro , Žiga Emeršič , Peter Peer

Deploying large-scale transformer models on edge devices presents significant challenges due to strict constraints on memory, compute, and latency. In this work, we propose a lightweight yet effective multi-stage optimization pipeline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Shoaib Mohammad , Guanqun Song , Ting Zhu

On top of Segment Anything Model (SAM), SAM 2 further extends its capability from image to video inputs through a memory bank mechanism and obtains a remarkable performance compared with previous methods, making it a foundation model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Chong Zhou , Chenchen Zhu , Yunyang Xiong , Saksham Suri , Fanyi Xiao , Lemeng Wu , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Bo Dai , Chen Change Loy , Vikas Chandra , Bilge Soran

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant attention due to their versatility across a wide array of applications. Fine-tuning LLMs with parameter-efficient adapters, such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), enables these models to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zheyu Shen , Yexiao He , Ziyao Wang , Yuning Zhang , Guoheng Sun , Wanghao Ye , Ang Li

Equivariant Transformers such as Equiformer have demonstrated the efficacy of applying Transformers to the domain of 3D atomistic systems. However, they are limited to small degrees of equivariant representations due to their computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Yi-Lun Liao , Brandon Wood , Abhishek Das , Tess Smidt

Despite its importance for federated learning, continuous learning and many other applications, on-device training remains an open problem for EdgeAI. The problem stems from the large number of operations (e.g., floating point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Yuedong Yang , Guihong Li , Radu Marculescu

Deploying Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) on resource-constrained edge devices for long-sequence tasks remains challenging due to the quadratic time complexity of self-attention and growing Key-Value (KV) cache demands. While…

Decoding in a Transformer based language model is inherently sequential as a token's embedding needs to pass through all the layers in the network before the generation of the next token can begin. In this work, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Dylan Cutler , Arun Kandoor , Nishanth Dikkala , Nikunj Saunshi , Xin Wang , Rina Panigrahy

Transformer-based neural models are used in many AI applications. Training these models is expensive, as it takes huge GPU resources and long duration. It is challenging because typical data like sentences have variable lengths, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Xiaohui Wang , Yang Wei , Ying Xiong , Guyue Huang , Xian Qian , Yufei Ding , Mingxuan Wang , Lei Li

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success across various application domains, but their enormous sizes and computational demands pose significant challenges for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. To…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Kai Zhang , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Large Language Models (LLMs) face challenges for on-device inference due to high memory demands. Traditional methods to reduce memory usage often compromise performance and lack adaptability. We propose FlexInfer, an optimized offloading…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Hongchao Du , Shangyu Wu , Arina Kharlamova , Nan Guan , Chun Jason Xue

Since the introduction of Vision Transformers, the landscape of many computer vision tasks (e.g., semantic segmentation), which has been overwhelmingly dominated by CNNs, recently has significantly revolutionized. However, the computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Qiang Wan , Zilong Huang , Jiachen Lu , Gang Yu , Li Zhang

Transformers have reached remarkable success in sequence modeling. However, these models have efficiency issues as they need to store all the history token-level representations as memory. We present Memformer, an efficient neural network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Qingyang Wu , Zhenzhong Lan , Kun Qian , Jing Gu , Alborz Geramifard , Zhou Yu

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

Recurrent neural networks are effective models to process sequences. However, they are unable to learn long-term dependencies because of their inherent sequential nature. As a solution, Vaswani et al. introduced the Transformer, a model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Quentin Fournier , Gaétan Marceau Caron , Daniel Aloise

Drug discovery is a complex, resource-intensive process requiring significant time and cost to bring new medicines to patients. Many generative models aim to accelerate drug discovery, but few produce synthetically accessible molecules.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Zygimantas Jocys , Zhanxing Zhu , Henriette M. G. Willems , Katayoun Farrahi

Transformer-based architectures have advanced medical image analysis by effectively modeling long-range dependencies, yet they often struggle in 3D settings due to substantial memory overhead and insufficient capture of fine-grained local…

Heterogeneous hardware like Gaudi processor has been developed to enhance computations, especially matrix operations for Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) for generative AI tasks. However, our analysis indicates that…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Chengming Zhang , Xinheng Ding , Baixi Sun , Xiaodong Yu , Weijian Zheng , Zhen Xie , Dingwen Tao