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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

With the edge computing becoming an increasingly adopted concept in system architectures, it is expected its utilization will be additionally heightened when combined with deep learning (DL) techniques. The idea behind integrating demanding…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Mounir Bensalem , Jasenka Dizdarević , Admela Jukan

Edge inference (EI) has emerged as a promising paradigm to address the growing limitations of cloud-based Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference services, such as high response latency, limited scalability, and severe data privacy exposure.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zhipeng Cheng , Xiaoyu Xia , Hong Wang , Minghui Liwang , Ning Chen , Xuwei Fan , Xianbin Wang

Distributed systems can be found in various applications, e.g., in robotics or autonomous driving, to achieve higher flexibility and robustness. Thereby, data flow centric applications such as Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference benefit…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Fabian Kreß , El Mahdi El Annabi , Tim Hotfilter , Julian Hoefer , Tanja Harbaum , Juergen Becker

A surge in artificial intelligence and autonomous technologies have increased the demand toward enhanced edge-processing capabilities. Computational complexity and size of state-of-the-art Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are rising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Rawan Naous , Lazar Supic , Yoonhwan Kang , Ranko Sredojevic , Anish Singhani , Vladimir Stojanovic

We propose distributed deep neural networks (DDNNs) over distributed computing hierarchies, consisting of the cloud, the edge (fog) and end devices. While being able to accommodate inference of a deep neural network (DNN) in the cloud, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Surat Teerapittayanon , Bradley McDanel , H. T. Kung

Ensembles of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved qualitative predictions but they are computing and memory intensive. Therefore, the demand is growing to make them answer a heavy workload of requests with available computational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Pierrick Pochelu , Serge G. Petiton , Bruno Conche

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have succeeded in many different perception tasks, e.g., computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, etc. The high-performed DNNs heavily rely on intensive resource consumption. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zhongnan Qu

The convergence of artificial intelligence and edge computing has spurred growing interest in enabling intelligent services directly on resource-constrained devices. While traditional deep learning models require significant computational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Shuiguang Deng , Di Yu , Changze Lv , Xin Du , Linshan Jiang , Xiaofan Zhao , Wentao Tong , Xiaoqing Zheng , Weijia Fang , Peng Zhao , Gang Pan , Schahram Dustdar , Albert Y. Zomaya

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

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Roberto G. Pacheco , Rodrigo S. Couto , Osvaldo Simeone

The large size of DNNs poses a significant challenge for deployment on devices with limited resources, such as mobile, edge, and IoT platforms. To address this issue, a distributed inference framework can be utilized. In this framework, a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

In many industry scale applications, large and resource consuming machine learning models reside in powerful cloud servers. At the same time, large amounts of input data are collected at the edge of cloud. The inference results are also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi , Naveen Vedula , Jian Pei , Fei Xia , Lanjun Wang , Yong Zhang

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

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in mobile intelligent applications. The inference for the DNNs is usually performed in the cloud. However, it leads to a large overhead of transmitting data via wireless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Guangli Li , Lei Liu , Xueying Wang , Xiao Dong , Peng Zhao , Xiaobing Feng

Deep neural networks (DNNs) sustain high performance in today's data processing applications. DNN inference is resource-intensive thus is difficult to fit into a mobile device. An alternative is to offload the DNN inference to a cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Beibei Zhang , Tian Xiang , Hongxuan Zhang , Te Li , Shiqiang Zhu , Jianjun Gu

As the number of edge devices with computing resources (e.g., embedded GPUs, mobile phones, and laptops) increases, recent studies demonstrate that it can be beneficial to collaboratively run convolutional neural network (CNN) inference on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Xueyu Hou , Yongjie Guan , Tao Han , Ning Zhang

Optimising deep learning inference across edge devices and optimisation targets such as inference time, memory footprint and power consumption is a key challenge due to the ubiquity of neural networks. Today, production deep learning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Perry Gibson , José Cano

The massive growth in the utilization of edge AI has made the applications of machine learning models ubiquitous in different domains. Despite the computation and communication efficiency of these systems, due to limited computation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Zhongwei Cheng , Lin Chen

Collaborative deep learning inference between low-resource endpoint devices and edge servers has received significant research interest in the last few years. Such computation partitioning can help reducing endpoint device energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Jani Boutellier , Bo Tan , Jari Nurmi