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Deciding what combination of operators to use across the Edge AI tiers to achieve specific latency and model performance requirements is an open question for MLOps engineers. This study aims to empirically assess the accuracy vs inference…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jaskirat Singh , Emad Fallahzadeh , Bram Adams , Ahmed E. Hassan

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and particularly deep learning systems, are traditionally the domain of large-scale cloud servers, which have access to high computational and energy resources. Nonetheless, in Internet-of-Things…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Nir Shlezinger , Ivan V. Bajic

This work aims to enable persistent, event-driven sensing and decision capabilities for energy-harvesting (EH)-powered devices by deploying lightweight DNNs onto EH-powered devices. However, harvested energy is usually weak and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Yawen Wu , Zhepeng Wang , Zhenge Jia , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit exceptional performance across various downstream tasks. However, they encounter limitations due to slow inference speeds stemming from their extensive parameters. The early exit (EE) is an approach that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Weiqiao Shan , Long Meng , Tong Zheng , Yingfeng Luo , Bei Li , junxin Wang , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Deep learning applications at the network edge lead to a significant growth in AI-related carbon emissions, presenting a critical sustainability challenge. The existing edge computing frameworks optimize for latency and throughput, but they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Guilin Zhang , Wulan Guo , Ziqi Tan , Chuanyi Sun , Hailong Jiang

Early-exit deep neural networks enable adaptive inference by terminating computation when sufficient confidence is achieved, reducing cost for edge AI accelerators in resource-constrained settings. Existing methods, however, rely on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Parth Patne , Mahdi Taheri , Christian Herglotz , Maksim Jenihhin , Milos Krstic , Michael Hübner

The ubiquitous use of IoT and machine learning applications is creating large amounts of data that require accurate and real-time processing. Although edge-based smart data processing can be enabled by deploying pretrained models, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Yinghan Long , Indranil Chakraborty , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Kaushik Roy

The growing demand for large artificial intelligence model (LAIM) services is driving a paradigm shift from traditional cloud-based inference to edge-based inference for low-latency, privacy-preserving applications. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Zhonghao Lyu , Ming Xiao , Jie Xu , Mikael Skoglund , Marco Di Renzo

Early exiting has become a promising approach to improving the inference efficiency of deep networks. By structuring models with multiple classifiers (exits), predictions for ``easy'' samples can be generated at earlier exits, negating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yizeng Han , Dongchen Han , Zeyu Liu , Yulin Wang , Xuran Pan , Yifan Pu , Chao Deng , Junlan Feng , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Edge computing facilitates deep learning in resource-constrained environments, but challenges such as resource heterogeneity and dynamic constraints persist. This paper introduces AMP4EC, an Adaptive Model Partitioning framework designed to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Guilin Zhang , Wulan Guo , Ziqi Tan , Hailong Jiang

Accurately predicting end-to-end network latency is essential for enabling reliable task offloading in real-time edge computing applications. This paper introduces a lightweight latency prediction scheme based on rational modelling that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Mohan Liyanage , Eldiyar Zhantileuov , Ali Kadhum Idrees , Rolf Schuster

We introduce an efficient video segmentation system for resource-limited edge devices leveraging heterogeneous compute. Specifically, we design network models by searching across multiple dimensions of specifications for the neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Jamie Menjay Lin , Siargey Pisarchyk , Juhyun Lee , David Tian , Tingbo Hou , Karthik Raveendran , Raman Sarokin , George Sung , Trent Tolley , Matthias Grundmann

Industrial cyber physical systems operate under heterogeneous sensing, stochastic dynamics, and shifting process conditions, producing data that are often incomplete, unlabeled, imbalanced, and domain shifted. High-fidelity datasets remain…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Qianyu Zhou

Early-exit neural networks reduce inference cost by enabling confident predictions at intermediate layers. However, joint training often leads to gradient interference, with deeper classifiers dominating optimization. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Saad Mokssit , Ouassim Karrakchou , Alejandro Mousist , Mounir Ghogho

Transformer-based models have unlocked a plethora of powerful intelligent applications at the edge, such as voice assistant in smart home. Traditional deployment approaches offload the inference workloads to the remote cloud server, which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Shengyuan Ye , Jiangsu Du , Liekang Zeng , Wenzhong Ou , Xiaowen Chu , Yutong Lu , Xu Chen

This paper provides an invariant federated learning system for resource-constrained edge intelligence. This framework can mitigate the impact of heterogeneity and asynchrony via exit strategy and invariant penalty. We introduce parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Ziruo Hao , Zhenhua Cui , Tao Yang , Bo Hu , Xiaofeng Wu , Hui Feng

Despite the great success in Natural Language Processing (NLP) area, large pre-trained language models like BERT are not well-suited for resource-constrained or real-time applications owing to the large number of parameters and slow…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Keli Xie , Siyuan Lu , Meiqi Wang , Zhongfeng Wang

Early-exit neural networks (EENNs) enable adaptive and efficient inference by providing predictions at multiple stages during the forward pass. In safety-critical applications, these predictions are meaningful only when accompanied by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Metod Jazbec , Patrick Forré , Stephan Mandt , Dan Zhang , Eric Nalisnick

Many real-world applications are widely adopting the edge computing paradigm due to its low latency and better privacy protection. With notable success in AI and deep learning (DL), edge devices and AI accelerators play a crucial role in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Piyush Subedi , Jianwei Hao , In Kee Kim , Lakshmish Ramaswamy

The rapid growth of end-user AI applications, such as computer vision and generative AI, has led to immense data and processing demands often exceeding user devices' capabilities. Edge AI addresses this by offloading computation to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Juan Marcelo Parra-Ullauri , Oscar Dilley , Hari Madhukumar , Dimitra Simeonidou