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Interest in deploying Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference on edge devices has resulted in an explosion of the number and types of hardware platforms to use. While the high-level programming interface, such as TensorFlow, can be readily…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Upasana Sridhar , Nicholai Tukanov , Elliott Binder , Tze Meng Low , Scott McMillan , Martin D. Schatz

Tiny machine learning (TinyML), executing AI workloads on resource and power strictly restricted systems, is an important and challenging topic. This brief firstly presents an extremely tiny backbone to construct high efficiency CNN models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Kunran Xu , Huawei Zhang , Yishi Li , Yuhao Zhang , Rui Lai , Yi Liu

Tiny deep learning on microcontroller units (MCUs) is challenging due to the limited memory size. We find that the memory bottleneck is due to the imbalanced memory distribution in convolutional neural network (CNN) designs: the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Ji Lin , Wei-Ming Chen , Han Cai , Chuang Gan , Song Han

Developing deep learning models on tiny devices (e.g. Microcontroller units, MCUs) has attracted much attention in various embedded IoT applications. However, it is challenging to efficiently design and deploy recent advanced models (e.g.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jianlei Yang , Jiacheng Liao , Fanding Lei , Meichen Liu , Lingkun Long , Junyi Chen , Han Wan , Bei Yu , Weisheng Zhao

The emergence of Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) has positively revolutionized the field of Artificial Intelligence by promoting the joint design of resource-constrained IoT hardware devices and their learning-based software architectures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Luigi Capogrosso , Federico Cunico , Dong Seon Cheng , Franco Fummi , Marco Cristani

The recent progress in TinyML technologies triggers the need to address the challenge of balancing inference time and classification quality. TinyML systems are defined by specific constraints in computation, memory and energy. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Tobiasz Puslecki , Krzysztof Walkowiak

This research empirically examines embedded development tools viable for on-device TinyML implementation. The research evaluates various development tools with various abstraction levels on resource-constrained IoT devices, from basic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Enzo Scaffi , Antoine Bonneau , Frédéric Le Mouël , Fabien Mieyeville

Advancements in ultra-low-power tiny machine learning (TinyML) systems promise to unlock an entirely new class of smart applications. However, continued progress is limited by the lack of a widely accepted and easily reproducible benchmark…

Machine learning (ML) has become a pervasive tool across computing systems. An emerging application that stress-tests the challenges of ML system design is tiny robot learning, the deployment of ML on resource-constrained low-cost…

Low-power microcontroller (MCU) hardware is currently evolving from single-core architectures to predominantly multi-core architectures. In parallel, new embedded software building blocks are more and more written in Rust, while C/C++…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhaolan Huang , Kaspar Schleiser , Gyungmin Myung , Emmanuel Baccelli

Tiny Machine Learning (TML) is a new research area whose goal is to design machine and deep learning techniques able to operate in Embedded Systems and IoT units, hence satisfying the severe technological constraints on memory, computation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Simone Disabato , Manuel Roveri

The proliferation of smart and autonomous systems has motivated a shift toward executing intelligence directly on edge devices. This shift becomes particularly challenging for zero-energy devices (ZEDs), where severe constraints on memory,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Shahab Jahanbazi , Mateen Ashraf , Lieven De Strycker , Jeroen Famaey , Onel L. A. Lopez

Deep Neural Network (DNN) based inference at the edge is challenging as these compute and data-intensive algorithms need to be implemented at low cost and low power while meeting the latency constraints of the target applications. Sparsity,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Adithya Krishna , Srikanth Rohit Nudurupati , Chandana D G , Pritesh Dwivedi , André van Schaik , Mahesh Mehendale , Chetan Singh Thakur

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across a variety of tasks. However, their substantial scale leads to significant computational resource consumption during inference, resulting in high costs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zhaode Wang , Jingbang Yang , Xinyu Qian , Shiwen Xing , Xiaotang Jiang , Chengfei Lv , Shengyu Zhang

Machine learning models deployed on edge devices have enabled numerous exciting new applications, such as humanoid robots, AR glasses, and autonomous vehicles. However, the computing resources available on these edge devices are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Jinjie Liu , Hang Qiu

Tiny machine learning (TinyML) promises to revolutionize fields such as healthcare, environmental monitoring, and industrial maintenance by running machine learning models on low-power embedded systems. However, the complex optimizations…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Emil Njor , Colby Banbury , Xenofon Fafoutis

Memory optimization for deep neural network (DNN) inference gains high relevance with the emergence of TinyML, which refers to the deployment of DNN inference tasks on tiny, low-power microcontrollers. Applications such as audio keyword…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Rafael Stahl , Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder , Ulf Schlichtmann

Tiny machine learning (tinyML) has emerged during the past few years aiming to deploy machine learning models to embedded AI processors with highly constrained memory and computation capacity. Low precision quantization is an important…

Machine learning (ML) libraries such as PyTorch and TensorFlow are essential for a wide range of modern applications. Ensuring the correctness of ML libraries through testing is crucial. However, ML APIs often impose strict input…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Lukas Krodinger , Altin Hajdari , Stephan Lukasczyk , Gordon Fraser