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Video and image streaming on edge devices requires low latency. To address this, Neural Networks (NNs) are widely used, and prior work mainly focuses on accelerating them with single hardware units such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs),…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Ali Emre Oztas , Mahir Demir , James Garside , Mikel Luj'an

Leveraging large data sets, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art recognition accuracy. Due to the substantial compute and memory operations, however, they require significant execution time. The massive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Chao Li , Yi Yang , Min Feng , Srimat Chakradhar , Huiyang Zhou

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in diverse applications, but the problems of high latency and energy overhead are inevitable on resource-constrained devices. To address this challenge, most researchers focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yunchu Han , Zhaojun Nan , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

With the popularity of the deep neural network (DNN), hardware accelerators are demanded for real time execution. However, lengthy design process and fast evolving DNN models make hardware evaluation hard to meet the time to market need.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Chih-Chyau Yang , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the de facto algorithm for tackling cognitive tasks in real-world applications such as speech recognition and natural language processing. DNN inference comprises numerous dot product operations between…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Nitesh Narayana GS , Marc Ordoñez , Lokananda Hari , Franyell Silfa , Antonio González

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ghazal Sobhani , Md. Monzurul Amin Ifath , Tushar Sharma , Israat Haque

The effectiveness of deep neural networks (DNN) in vision, speech, and language processing has prompted a tremendous demand for energy-efficient high-performance DNN inference systems. Due to the increasing memory intensity of most DNN…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Skanda Koppula , Lois Orosa , Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı , Roknoddin Azizi , Taha Shahroodi , Konstantinos Kanellopoulos , Onur Mutlu

Many hardware vendors have introduced specialized deep neural networks (DNN) accelerators owing to their superior performance and efficiency. As such, how to generate and optimize the code for the hardware accelerator becomes an important…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Zihan Liu , Jingwen Leng , Quan Chen , Chao Li , Wenli Zheng , Li Li , Minyi Guo

The recent advances in deep neural networks (DNNs) make them attractive for embedded systems. However, it can take a long time for DNNs to make an inference on resource-constrained computing devices. Model compression techniques can address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Qing Qin , Jie Ren , Jialong Yu , Ling Gao , Hai Wang , Jie Zheng , Yansong Feng , Jianbin Fang , Zheng Wang

Unlike existing work in deep neural network (DNN) graphs optimization for inference performance, we explore DNN graph optimization for energy awareness and savings for power- and resource-constrained machine learning devices. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yu Wang , Rong Ge , Shuang Qiu

Since emerging edge applications such as Internet of Things (IoT) analytics and augmented reality have tight latency constraints, hardware AI accelerators have been recently proposed to speed up deep neural network (DNN) inference run by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Qianlin Liang , Walid A. Hanafy , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , Prashant Shenoy

To facilitate the evolution of edge intelligence in ever-changing environments, we study on-device incremental learning constrained in limited computation resource in this paper. Current on-device training methods just focus on efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Dingwen Zhang , Yan Li , De Cheng , Nannan Wang , Junwei Han

Partitioning and distributing deep neural networks (DNNs) across end-devices, edge resources and the cloud has a potential twofold advantage: preserving privacy of the input data, and reducing the ingress bandwidth demand beyond the edge.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Luke Lockhart , Paul Harvey , Pierre Imai , Peter Willis , Blesson Varghese

Recent breakthroughs in Deep Learning (DL) applications have made DL models a key component in almost every modern computing system. The increased popularity of DL applications deployed on a wide-spectrum of platforms have resulted in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Diana Marculescu , Dimitrios Stamoulis , Ermao Cai

As neural networks (NN) are deployed across diverse sectors, their energy demand correspondingly grows. While several prior works have focused on reducing energy consumption during training, the continuous operation of ML-powered systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Minghao Yan , Hongyi Wang , Shivaram Venkataraman

Edge inference techniques partition and distribute Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference tasks among multiple edge nodes for low latency inference, without considering the core-level heterogeneity of edge nodes. Further, default DNN inference…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zain Taufique , Aman Vyas , Antonio Miele , Pasi Liljeberg , Anil Kanduri

The growing demand for real-time DNN applications on edge devices necessitates faster inference of increasingly complex models. Although many devices include specialized accelerators (e.g., mobile GPUs), dynamic control-flow operators and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Chong Tang , Hao Dai , Jagmohan Chauhan

This paper presents a state-of-the-art overview on how to architect, design, and optimize Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) such that performance is improved and accuracy is preserved. The paper covers a set of optimizations that span the entire…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Humberto Carvalho , Pavel Zaykov , Asim Ukaye

Graph neural networks (GNN) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various industrial tasks. However, the poor efficiency of GNN inference and frequent Out-Of-Memory (OOM) problem limit the successful application of GNN on edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Ao Zhou , Jianlei Yang , Yeqi Gao , Tong Qiao , Yingjie Qi , Xiaoyi Wang , Yunli Chen , Pengcheng Dai , Weisheng Zhao , Chunming Hu

Neural networks (NNs) lack measures of "reliability" estimation that would enable reasoning over their predictions. Despite the vital importance, especially in areas of human well-being and health, state-of-the-art uncertainty estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Lorena Qendro , Jagmohan Chauhan , Alberto Gil C. P. Ramos , Cecilia Mascolo