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With its strong modeling capacity that comes from a multi-head and multi-layer structure, Transformer is a very powerful model for learning a sequential representation and has been successfully applied to speech separation recently.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li

Edge AI, which brings artificial intelligence to the edge of the network for real-time processing and decision-making, has emerged as a transformative technology across various applications. However, the deployment of Edge AI systems faces…

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In this paper, we address the design of lightweight deep learning-based edge detection. The deep learning technology offers a significant improvement on the edge detection accuracy. However, typical neural network designs have very high…

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Currently, it is a hot research topic to realize accurate, efficient, and real-time identification of massive spectral data with the help of deep learning and IoT technology. Deep neural networks played a key role in spectral analysis.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yundong Sun , Dongjie Zhu , Haiwen Du , Yansong Wang , Zhaoshuo Tian

Early-Exit (EE) is a Large Language Model (LLM) architecture that accelerates inference by allowing easier tokens to be generated using only a subset of the model's layers. However, traditional batching frameworks are ill-suited for EE…

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Adaptive inference is a simple method for reducing inference costs. The method works by maintaining multiple classifiers of different capacities, and allocating resources to each test instance according to its difficulty. In this work, we…

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As we march towards the age of ubiquitous intelligence, we note that AI and intelligence are progressively moving from the cloud to the edge. The success of Edge-AI is pivoted on innovative circuits and hardware that can enable inference…

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The recent advancement of edge computing enables researchers to optimize various deep learning architectures to employ them in edge devices. In this study, we aim to optimize Xception architecture which is one of the most popular deep…

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Self-supervised speech models have shown to be useful for various tasks, but their large size limits the use in devices with low computing power and memory. In this work, we explore early exit, an approach for reducing latency by exiting…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Tzu-Quan Lin , Hung-yi Lee , Hao Tang

Mobile devices can offload deep neural network (DNN)-based inference to the cloud, overcoming local hardware and energy limitations. However, offloading adds communication delay, thus increasing the overall inference time, and hence it…

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Edge artificial intelligence (AI) will be a central part of 6G, with powerful edge servers supporting devices in performing machine learning (ML) inference. However, it is challenging to deliver the latency and accuracy guarantees required…

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This article surveys Cognitive Edge Computing as a practical and methodical pathway for deploying reasoning-capable Large Language Models (LLMs) and autonomous AI agents on resource-constrained devices at the network edge. We present a…

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Machine learning at the edge offers great benefits such as increased privacy and security, low latency, and more autonomy. However, a major challenge is that many devices, in particular edge devices, have very limited memory, weak…

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On-device inference holds great potential for increased energy efficiency, responsiveness, and privacy in edge ML systems. However, due to less capable ML models that can be embedded in resource-limited devices, use cases are limited to…

Energy-efficient machine learning models that can run directly on edge devices are of great interest in IoT applications, as they can reduce network pressure and response latency, and improve privacy. An effective way to obtain…

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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…

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Efficient and effective Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection is essential for the safe deployment of AI systems. Existing feature space methods, while effective, often incur significant computational overhead due to their reliance on…

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Machine learning (ML) inference platforms are tasked with balancing two competing goals: ensuring high throughput given many requests, and delivering low-latency responses to support interactive applications. Unfortunately, existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yinwei Dai , Rui Pan , Anand Iyer , Kai Li , Ravi Netravali

On-device machine learning is becoming a reality thanks to the availability of powerful hardware and model compression techniques. Typically, these models are pretrained on large GPU clusters and have enough parameters to generalise across…

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