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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

Deep Ensembles are a simple, reliable, and effective method of improving both the predictive performance and uncertainty estimates of deep learning approaches. However, they are widely criticised as being computationally expensive, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Guoxuan Xia , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

State-of-the-art neural networks with early exit mechanisms often need considerable amount of training and fine tuning to achieve good performance with low computational cost. We propose a novel early exit technique, Early Exit Class Means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Alperen Görmez , Venkat R. Dasari , Erdem Koyuncu

Both performance and efficiency are crucial factors for sequence labeling tasks in many real-world scenarios. Although the pre-trained models (PTMs) have significantly improved the performance of various sequence labeling tasks, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Xiaonan Li , Yunfan Shao , Tianxiang Sun , Hang Yan , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Early Exiting is one of the most popular methods to achieve efficient inference. Current early exiting methods adopt the (weighted) sum of the cross entropy loss of all internal classifiers during training, imposing all these classifiers to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ziqian Zeng , Yihuai Hong , Hongliang Dai , Huiping Zhuang , Cen Chen

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

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

Deep neural networks have become larger over the years with increasing demand of computational resources for inference; incurring exacerbate costs and leaving little room for deployment on devices with limited battery and other resources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Aaqib Saeed

Early Exiting (EE) is a promising technique for speeding up inference by adaptively allocating compute resources to data points based on their difficulty. The approach enables predictions to exit at earlier layers for simpler samples while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Mehrnaz Mofakhami , Reza Bayat , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Joao Monteiro , Valentina Zantedeschi

Large language models have achieved remarkable capabilities, but their practical deployment is hindered by significant computational costs. While adaptive computation methods like early-exiting promise to reduce these costs, they introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sangmin Bae

Modern predictive models are often deployed to environments in which computational budgets are dynamic. Anytime algorithms are well-suited to such environments as, at any point during computation, they can output a prediction whose quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Metod Jazbec , James Urquhart Allingham , Dan Zhang , Eric Nalisnick

In recent years, deep learning-based single-channel speech separation has improved considerably, in large part driven by increasingly compute- and parameter-efficient neural network architectures. Most such architectures are, however,…

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

Given the fast growth of intelligent devices, it is expected that a large number of high-stake artificial intelligence (AI) applications, e.g., drones, autonomous cars, tactile robots, will be deployed at the edge of wireless networks in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Kai Yang , Yong Zhou , Zhanpeng Yang , Yuanming Shi

Accurately estimating workload runtime is a longstanding goal in computer systems, and plays a key role in efficient resource provisioning, latency minimization, and various other system management tasks. Runtime prediction is particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tianshu Huang , Arjun Ramesh , Emily Ruppel , Nuno Pereira , Anthony Rowe , Carlee Joe-Wong

In this paper, we investigate how to deploy computational intelligence and deep learning (DL) in edge-enabled industrial IoT networks. In this system, the IoT devices can collaboratively train a shared model without compromising data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Shunpu Tang , Lunyuan Chen , Ke HeJunjuan Xia , Lisheng Fan , Arumugam Nallanathan

In this paper, we propose Patience-based Early Exit, a straightforward yet effective inference method that can be used as a plug-and-play technique to simultaneously improve the efficiency and robustness of a pretrained language model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Wangchunshu Zhou , Canwen Xu , Tao Ge , Julian McAuley , Ke Xu , Furu Wei

With the growing workload of inference tasks on mobile devices, state-of-the-art neural architectures (NAs) are typically designed through Neural Architecture Search (NAS) to identify NAs with good tradeoffs between accuracy and efficiency…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Zhuojin Li , Marco Paolieri , Leana Golubchik

Implementing machine learning algorithms on Internet of things (IoT) devices has become essential for emerging applications, such as autonomous driving, environment monitoring. But the limitations of computation capability and energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xiufeng Huang , Sheng Zhou

This paper proposes a communication-efficient, event-triggered inference framework for cooperative edge AI systems comprising multiple user devices and edge servers. Building upon dual-threshold early-exit strategies for rare-event…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Thai T. Vu , John Le