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Modern machine learning tools such as deep neural networks (DNNs) are playing a revolutionary role in many fields such as natural language processing, computer vision, and the internet of things. Once they are trained, deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Arjun Parthasarathy , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

With the increased penetration and proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, there is a growing trend towards distributing the power of deep learning (DL) across edge devices rather than centralizing it in the cloud. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yuhao Chen , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently become the state-of-the-art in a diversity of AI tasks. Despite their popularity, CNN inference still comes at a high computational cost. A growing body of work aims to alleviate this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Stefanos Laskaridis , Stylianos I. Venieris , Hyeji Kim , Nicholas D. Lane

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

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Arjun Parthasarathy , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

The advent of big data and AI has precipitated a demand for computational frameworks that ensure real-time performance, accuracy, and privacy. While edge computing mitigates latency and privacy concerns, its scalability is constrained by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Hailin Zhong , Donglong Chen

The deployment of large language models' (LLMs) inference at the edge can facilitate prompt service responsiveness while protecting user privacy. However, it is critically challenged by the resource constraints of a single edge node.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Peirong Zheng , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Jinyu Chen , Xuemin Shen

As the backbone technology of machine learning, deep neural networks (DNNs) have have quickly ascended to the spotlight. Running DNNs on resource-constrained mobile devices is, however, by no means trivial, since it incurs high performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-31 En Li , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have driven increasing intelligent applications at the network edge, such as smart home, smart factory, and smart city. To deploy computationally intensive Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Liekang Zeng , Xu Chen , Zhi Zhou , Lei Yang , Junshan Zhang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising approach to improve the energy efficiency of machine learning models, as they naturally implement event-driven computations while avoiding expensive multiplication operations. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Anagha Nimbekar , Prabodh Katti , Chen Li , Bashir M. Al-Hashimi , Amit Acharyya , Bipin Rajendran

The success of deep neural networks (DNNs) is heavily dependent on computational resources. While DNNs are often employed on cloud servers, there is a growing need to operate DNNs on edge devices. Edge devices are typically limited in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 May Malka , Erez Farhan , Hai Morgenstern , Nir Shlezinger

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have inspired new studies in myriad edge applications with robots, autonomous agents, and Internet-of-things (IoT) devices. However, performing inference of DNNs in the edge is still a severe challenge, mainly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Ramyad Hadidi , Bahar Asgari , Jiashen Cao , Younmin Bae , Da Eun Shim , Hyojong Kim , Sung-Kyu Lim , Michael S. Ryoo , Hyesoon Kim

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on IoT and mobile devices is a challenging task due to their limited computational resources. Thus, demanding tasks are often entirely offloaded to edge servers which can accelerate inference, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Arian Bakhtiarnia , Nemanja Milošević , Qi Zhang , Dragana Bajović , Alexandros Iosifidis

Motivated by the proliferation of Internet-of-Thing (IoT) devices and the rapid advances in the field of deep learning, there is a growing interest in pushing deep learning computations, conventionally handled by the cloud, to the edge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Marco Palena , Tania Cerquitelli , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

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

Since local LLM inference on resource-constrained edge devices imposes a severe performance bottleneck, this paper proposes distributed prompt caching to enhance inference performance by cooperatively sharing intermediate processing states…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hiroki Matsutani , Naoki Matsuda , Naoto Sugiura

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

Despite the soaring use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in mobile applications, uniformly sustaining high-performance inference on mobile has been elusive due to the excessive computational demands of modern CNNs and the increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Stefanos Laskaridis , Stylianos I. Venieris , Mario Almeida , Ilias Leontiadis , Nicholas D. Lane

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

Diffusion models have exhibited exciting capabilities in generating images and are also very promising for video creation. However, the inference speed of diffusion models is limited by the slow sampling process, restricting its use cases.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 XiuYu Zhang , Zening Luo , Michelle E. Lu