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Given the fast growth of intelligent devices, it is expected that a large number of high-stake artificial intelligence (AI) applications, e.g., drones, autonomous cars, tactile robots, will be deployed at the edge of wireless networks in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Kai Yang , Yong Zhou , Zhanpeng Yang , Yuanming Shi

Pre-training powerful Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with unlabeled graph data in a self-supervised manner has emerged as a prominent technique in recent years. However, inevitable objective gaps often exist between pre-training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingbo Fu , Yinhan He , Jundong Li

Crack segmentation on edge devices can support continuous infrastructure monitoring and maintenance and thereby help to preserve public safety. Furthermore, autonomous infrastructure monitoring by using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Matthias Tschope , Mohamed Moursi , Vladimir Rybalkin , Bo Zhou , Norbert Wehn , Paul Lukowicz

The advent of hyper-scale and general-purpose pre-trained models is shifting the paradigm of building task-specific models for target tasks. In the field of audio research, task-agnostic pre-trained models with high transferability and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Ju-ho Kim , Jungwoo Heo , Hyun-seo Shin , Chan-yeong Lim , Ha-Jin Yu

Empowered by transformer-based models, visual tracking has advanced significantly. However, the slow speed of current trackers limits their applicability on devices with constrained computational resources. To address this challenge, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiangyang Yang , Dan Zeng , Xucheng Wang , You Wu , Hengzhou Ye , Qijun Zhao , Shuiwang Li

Deploying Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) on resource-constrained edge devices for long-sequence tasks remains challenging due to the quadratic time complexity of self-attention and growing Key-Value (KV) cache demands. While…

Edge vision systems combining sensing and embedded processing promise low-latency, decentralized, and energy-efficient solutions that forgo reliance on the cloud. As opposed to conventional frame-based vision sensors, event-based cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yufeng Yang , Adrian Kneip , Charlotte Frenkel

Existing binary Transformers are promising in edge deployment due to their compact model size, low computational complexity, and considerable inference accuracy. However, deploying binary Transformers faces challenges on prior processors…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yuhao Ji , Chao Fang , Zhongfeng Wang

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

Collaborative inference has received significant research interest in machine learning as a vehicle for distributing computation load, reducing latency, as well as addressing privacy preservation in communications. Recent collaborative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Jani Boutellier , Bo Tan , Jari Nurmi

Transformers have achieved remarkable performance in a myriad of fields including natural language processing and computer vision. However, when it comes to the graph mining area, where graph neural network (GNN) has been the dominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jianan Zhao , Chaozhuo Li , Qianlong Wen , Yiqi Wang , Yuming Liu , Hao Sun , Xing Xie , Yanfang Ye

We study the problem of efficient generative inference for Transformer models, in one of its most challenging settings: large deep models, with tight latency targets and long sequence lengths. Better understanding of the engineering…

In the mobile-edge-cloud continuum, a plethora of heterogeneous data sources and computation-capable nodes are available. Such nodes can cooperate to perform a distributed learning task, aided by a learning controller (often located at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Francesco Malandrino , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Giuseppe Di Giacomo

Transformer models are rapidly becoming a cornerstone of modern Internet of Things (IoT) applications, yet their computational and memory demands far exceed the capabilities of a single typical ultra-low-power IoT device. We present CATS, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Alexander Gräfe , Ding Huo , Vincent de Bakker , Johannes Berger , Marco Zimmerling , Sebastian Trimpe

We introduce an efficient video segmentation system for resource-limited edge devices leveraging heterogeneous compute. Specifically, we design network models by searching across multiple dimensions of specifications for the neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Jamie Menjay Lin , Siargey Pisarchyk , Juhyun Lee , David Tian , Tingbo Hou , Karthik Raveendran , Raman Sarokin , George Sung , Trent Tolley , Matthias Grundmann

Self-attention in Transformers comes with a high computational cost because of their quadratic computational complexity, but their effectiveness in addressing problems in language and vision has sparked extensive research aimed at enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tobias Christian Nauen , Sebastian Palacio , Federico Raue , Andreas Dengel

With the proliferation of GPS-equipped edge devices, huge trajectory data is generated and accumulated in various domains, motivating a variety of urban applications. Due to the limited acquisition capabilities of edge devices, a lot of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ziqiao Liu , Hao Miao , Yan Zhao , Chenxi Liu , Kai Zheng , Huan Li

This paper presents a novel framework combining group equivariant convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) with equivariant-aware structured pruning to produce compact, transformation-invariant models for resource-constrained environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mohammed Alnemari

Deep convolution Neural Network (DCNN) has been widely used in computer vision tasks. However, for edge devices even inference has too large computational complexity and data access amount. The inference latency of state-of-the-art models…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kuan-Ting Lin , Ching-Te Chiu , Jheng-Yi Chang , Shi-Zong Huang , Yu-Ting Li

Edge computing enables data processing closer to the source, significantly reducing latency, an essential requirement for real-time vision-based analytics such as object detection in surveillance and smart city environments. However, these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Daghash K. Alqahtani , Maria A. Rodriguez , Muhammad Aamir Cheema , Hamid Rezatofighi , Adel N. Toosi