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Deep learning inference is increasingly run at the edge. As the programming and system stack support becomes mature, it enables acceleration opportunities within a mobile system, where the system performance envelope is scaled up with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Young Geun Kim , Carole-Jean Wu

Deep learning has delivered its powerfulness in many application domains, especially in image and speech recognition. As the backbone of deep learning, deep neural networks (DNNs) consist of multiple layers of various types with hundreds to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Sheng Lin , Ning Liu , Mahdi Nazemi , Hongjia Li , Caiwen Ding , Yanzhi Wang , Massoud Pedram

To reduce uploading bandwidth and address privacy concerns, deep learning at the network edge has been an emerging topic. Typically, edge devices collaboratively train a shared model using real-time generated data through the Parameter…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Shangming Cai , Dongsheng Wang , Haixia Wang , Yongqiang Lyu , Guangquan Xu , Xi Zheng , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Deep Reinforcement Learning is gaining increasing attention thanks to its capability to learn complex policies in high-dimensional settings. Recent advancements utilize a dual-network architecture to learn optimal policies through the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Alberto Sinigaglia , Niccolò Turcato , Ruggero Carli , Gian Antonio Susto

Deep neural network (DNN) inference is increasingly being executed on mobile and embedded platforms due to several key advantages in latency, privacy and always-on availability. However, due to limited computing resources, efficient DNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Lei Xun , Jonathon Hare , Geoff V. Merrett

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

Resiliency plays a critical role in designing future communication networks. How to make edge computing systems resilient against unpredictable failures and fluctuating demand is an important and challenging problem. To this end, this paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Jiaming Cheng , Duong Tung Nguyen , Vijay K. Bhargava

Reducing inference time and energy usage while maintaining prediction accuracy has become a significant concern for deep neural networks (DNN) inference on resource-constrained edge devices. To address this problem, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Hasanul Mahmud , Peng Kang , Kevin Desai , Palden Lama , Sushil Prasad

This study presents a novel computer system performance optimization and adaptive workload management scheduling algorithm based on Q-learning. In modern computing environments, characterized by increasing data volumes, task complexity, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Pochun Li , Yuyang Xiao , Jinghua Yan , Xuan Li , Xiaoye Wang

Deep Neural Network (DNN) splitting is one of the key enablers of edge Artificial Intelligence (AI), as it allows end users to pre-process data and offload part of the computational burden to nearby Edge Cloud Servers (ECSs). This opens new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Francesco Binucci , Mattia Merluzzi , Paolo Banelli , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Distributed cloud environments hosting data-intensive applications often experience slowdowns due to network congestion, asymmetric bandwidth, and inter-node data shuffling. These factors are typically not captured by traditional host-level…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sankalpa Timilsina , Susmit Shannigrahi

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have served as a catalyst in introducing a plethora of next-generation services in the era of Internet of Things (IoT), thanks to the availability of massive amounts of data collected by the objects on the edge.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Barzan A. Yosuf , Sanaa H. Mohamed , Mohamed Alenazi , Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

Edge offloading for deep neural networks (DNNs) can be adaptive to the input's complexity by using early-exit DNNs. These DNNs have side branches throughout their architecture, allowing the inference to end earlier in the edge. The branches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Roberto G. Pacheco , Fernanda D. V. R. Oliveira , Rodrigo S. Couto

This paper addresses the critical challenge of managing Quality of Service (QoS) in cloud services, focusing on the nuances of individual tenant expectations and varying Service Level Indicators (SLIs). It introduces a novel approach…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Enrico Russo , Francesco Giulio Blanco , Maurizio Palesi , Giuseppe Ascia , Davide Patti , Vincenzo Catania

In the field of high-performance computing (HPC), there has been recent exploration into the use of deep reinforcement learning for cluster scheduling (DRL scheduling), which has demonstrated promising outcomes. However, a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Boyang Li , Zhiling Lan , Michael E. Papka

Deep neural networks (DNNs) form the cornerstone of modern AI services, supporting a wide range of applications, including autonomous driving, chatbots, and recommendation systems. As models increase in size and complexity, DNN workloads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xiaokai Wang , Shaoyuan Huang , Yuting Li , Xiaofei Wang

The problem of resource constrained scheduling in a dynamic and heterogeneous wireless setting is considered here. In our setup, the available limited bandwidth resources are allocated in order to serve randomly arriving service demands,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Apostolos Avranas , Marios Kountouris , Philippe Ciblat

Due to limited resources on edge and different characteristics of deep neural network (DNN) models, it is a big challenge to optimize DNN inference performance in terms of energy consumption and end-to-end latency on edge devices. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Ziyang Zhang , Yang Zhao , Huan Li , Changyao Lin , Jie Liu

Deep Neural Network (DNN) workloads are quickly moving from datacenters onto edge devices, for latency, privacy, or energy reasons. While datacenter networks can be protected using conventional cybersecurity measures, edge neural networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Mihailo Isakov , Vijay Gadepally , Karen M. Gettings , Michel A. Kinsy

Edge computing is an emerging paradigm to enable low-latency applications, like mobile augmented reality, because it takes the computation on processing devices that are closer to the users. On the other hand, the need for highly scalable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella