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Multimodal deep learning systems are deployed in dynamic scenarios due to the robustness afforded by multiple sensing modalities. Nevertheless, they struggle with varying compute resource availability (due to multi-tenancy, device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Jason Wu , Yuyang Yuan , Kang Yang , Lance Kaplan , Mani Srivastava

Mixture-of-Agents (MoA) inference can suffer from dense inter-agent communication and low hardware utilization, which jointly inflate serving latency. We present a serving design that targets these bottlenecks through an algorithm-system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zijun Wang , Yijiahao Qi , Hanqiu Chen , Zishen Wan , Gongjin Sun , Dongyang Li , Shuyi Pei , Cong Hao

Machine learning inference is becoming a core building block for interactive web applications. As a result, the underlying model serving systems on which these applications depend must consistently meet low latency targets. Existing model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Arpan Gujarati , Reza Karimi , Safya Alzayat , Wei Hao , Antoine Kaufmann , Ymir Vigfusson , Jonathan Mace

We propose InCA, a lightweight method for transfer learning that cross-attends to any activation layer of a pre-trained model. During training, InCA uses a single forward pass to extract multiple activations, which are passed to external…

Multiplication is arguably the most cost-dominant operation in modern deep neural networks (DNNs), limiting their achievable efficiency and thus more extensive deployment in resource-constrained applications. To tackle this limitation,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Huihong Shi , Haoran You , Yang Zhao , Zhongfeng Wang , Yingyan Lin

A deep reinforcement learning approach is applied, for the first time, to solve the routing, modulation, spectrum and core allocation (RMSCA) problem in dynamic multicore fiber elastic optical networks (MCF-EONs). To do so, a new…

Multi-headed Attention's (MHA) quadratic compute and linearly growing KV-cache make long-context transformers expensive to train and serve. Prior works such as Grouped Query Attention (GQA) and Multi-Latent Attention (MLA) shrink the cache,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Tomas Figliolia , Nicholas Alonso , Rishi Iyer , Quentin Anthony , Beren Millidge

Transformer networks have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, leveraging a variety of architectural innovations, including residual connections. However, traditional residual connections, which simply sum the outputs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mike Heddes , Adel Javanmard , Kyriakos Axiotis , Gang Fu , MohammadHossein Bateni , Vahab Mirrokni

In edge inference, wireless resource allocation and accelerator-level deep neural network (DNN) scheduling have yet to be co-optimized in an end-to-end manner. The lack of coordination between wireless transmission and accelerator-level DNN…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Sai Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Yanan Du , Hyundong Shin

Data transfers are essential in today's computing systems as latency and complex memory access patterns are increasingly challenging to manage. Direct memory access engines (DMAEs) are critically needed to transfer data independently of the…

With the rise of machine learning, inference on deep neural networks (DNNs) has become a core building block on the critical path for many cloud applications. Applications today rely on isolated ad-hoc deployments that force users to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Amit Samanta , Suhas Shrinivasan , Antoine Kaufmann , Jonathan Mace

Deep learning models are being deployed in many mobile intelligent applications. End-side services, such as intelligent personal assistants, autonomous cars, and smart home services often employ either simple local models on the mobile or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , Mohammad Saeed Abrishami , Massoud Pedram

This study introduces a resource allocation framework for integrated satellite-terrestrial networks to address these challenges. The framework leverages local cache pool deployments and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to reduce time…

Mobile and embedded platforms are increasingly required to efficiently execute computationally demanding DNNs across heterogeneous processing elements. At runtime, the available hardware resources to DNNs can vary considerably due to other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Wei Lou , Lei Xun , Amin Sabet , Jia Bi , Jonathon Hare , Geoff V. Merrett

By exploiting the superiority of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), NOMA-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) can provide scalable and low-latency computing services for the Internet of Things. However, given the prevalent stochasticity of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Meihui Hua , Hui Tian , Xinchen Lyu , Wanli Ni , Gaofeng Nie

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have significantly improved the accuracy of intelligent applications on mobile devices. DNN surgery, which partitions DNN processing between mobile devices and multi-access edge computing (MEC) servers, can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Xiang Yang , Dezhi Chen , Qi Qi , Jingyu Wang , Haifeng Sun , Jianxin Liao , Song Guo

Neural Networks (NN) provide a solid and reliable way of executing different types of applications, ranging from speech recognition to medical diagnosis, speeding up onerous and long workloads. The challenges involved in their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Federico Manca , Francesco Ratto

Recent studies on neural architecture search have shown that automatically designed neural networks perform as good as expert-crafted architectures. While most existing works aim at finding architectures that optimize the prediction…

Severe constraints on memory and computation characterizing the Internet-of-Things (IoT) units may prevent the execution of Deep Learning (DL)-based solutions, which typically demand large memory and high processing load. In order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Simone Disabato , Manuel Roveri , Cesare Alippi

Device-to-device (D2D)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) is one of the critical technologies of future sixth generation (6G) networks. The core of D2D-assisted MEC is to reduce system latency for network edge UEs by supporting cloud…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Yue Xiu , Yang Zhao , Ran Yang , Huimin Tang , Long Qu , Maurice Khabbaz , Chadi Assi , Ning Wei