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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are generally designed as sequentially cascaded differentiable blocks/layers with a prediction module connected only to its last layer. DNNs can be attached with prediction modules at multiple points along the…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) enable various applications on edge devices such as smartphones, wearables, and embodied robots. However, their deployment often depends on expensive cloud-based APIs, creating high operational costs, which…

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In 5G smart cities, edge computing is employed to provide nearby computing services for end devices, and the large-scale models (e.g., GPT and LLaMA) can be deployed at the network edge to boost the service quality. However, due to the…

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Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled network edge has realized edge intelligence in several applications such as smart agriculture, smart hospitals, and smart factories by enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Muhammad Zawish , Steven Davy , Lizy Abraham

Search engine ranking pipelines are commonly based on large ensembles of machine-learned decision trees. The tight constraints on query response time recently motivated researchers to investigate algorithms to make faster the traversal of…

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Edge offloading for deep neural networks (DNNs) can be adaptive to the input's complexity by using early-exit DNNs. These DNNs have side branches throughout their architecture, allowing the inference to end earlier in the edge. The branches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Roberto G. Pacheco , Fernanda D. V. R. Oliveira , Rodrigo S. Couto

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its cutting-edge AI-enabled applications (e.g., autonomous vehicles and smart industries) combine two paradigms: data-driven systems and their deployment on the edge. Usually, edge…

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Recent advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated outstanding performance across various domains. However, their large size is a challenge for deployment on resource-constrained devices such as mobile, edge, and IoT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

In the past decade, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) achieved state-of-the-art performance in a broad range of problems, spanning from object classification and action recognition to smart building and healthcare. The flexibility that makes DNNs…

Edge inference has become more widespread, as its diverse applications range from retail to wearable technology. Clusters of networked resource-constrained edge devices are becoming common, yet no system exists to split a DNN across these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Arjun Parthasarathy , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Most recently, with the proliferation of IoT devices, computational nodes in manufacturing systems IIoT(Industrial-Internet-of-things) and the lunch of 5G networks, there will be millions of connected devices generating a massive amount of…

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a pivotal force in reshaping next generation mobile networks. Edge computing holds promise in enabling AI as a service (AIaaS) for prompt decision-making by offloading deep neural network (DNN)…

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Early exiting allows instances to exit at different layers according to the estimation of difficulty. Previous works usually adopt heuristic metrics such as the entropy of internal outputs to measure instance difficulty, which suffers from…

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The collaboration of large artificial intelligence (AI) models in mobile edge networks has emerged as a promising paradigm to meet the growing demand for intelligent services at the network edge. By enabling multiple devices to…

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Edge AI has been recently proposed to facilitate the training and deployment of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models in proximity to the sources of data. To enable the training of large models on resource-constraint edge devices and protect…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Mingjin Zhang , Jiannong Cao , Yuvraj Sahni , Xiangchun Chen , Shan Jiang

Early-Exit Large Language Models (EE-LLMs) enable high throughput inference by allowing tokens to exit early at intermediate layers. However, their throughput is limited by the computational and memory savings. Existing EE-LLM frameworks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Avinash Kumar , Shashank Nag , Jason Clemons , Lizy John , Poulami Das

One of the key missions of sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks is to deploy large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) models at the network edge to provide remote-inference services for edge devices. The resultant platform, known as edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhanwei Wang , Qunsong Zeng , Haotian Zheng , Kaibin Huang

The inference of large language models imposes significant computational workloads, often requiring the processing of billions of parameters. Although early-exit strategies have proven effective in reducing computational demands by halting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Sangmin Yoo , Srikanth Malla , Chiho Choi , Wei D. Lu , Joon Hee Choi

IoT and edge-based inference systems require unique solutions to overcome resource limitations and unpredictable environments. In this paper, we propose an environment-aware dynamic pruning system that handles the unpredictability of edge…

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