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The deployment of deep learning inference in production environments continues to grow, where throughput, latency, and hardware efficiency are critical. Although specialized accelerators are increasingly adopted, many inference workloads…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Kathiravan Palaniappan

Using Intel's Loihi neuromorphic research chip and ABR's Nengo Deep Learning toolkit, we analyze the inference speed, dynamic power consumption, and energy cost per inference of a two-layer neural network keyword spotter trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Peter Blouw , Xuan Choo , Eric Hunsberger , Chris Eliasmith

Deep neural networks ( DNNs ) are becoming a key enabling technology for many application domains. However, on-device inference on battery-powered, resource-constrained embedding systems is often infeasible due to prohibitively long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Vicent Sanz Marco , Ben Taylor , Zheng Wang , Yehia Elkhatib

Mobile edge devices (e.g., AR/VR headsets) typically need to complete timely inference tasks while operating with limited on-board computing and energy resources. In this paper, we investigate the problem of collaborative inference in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fatemeh Zahra Safaeipour , Jacob Chakareski , Morteza Hashemi

A system can satisfy accuracy-based validation, maintain output stability (Safety-Threshold Exceedance Rate, STER, equal to zero), and still violate timing constraints under deployment load. These are structurally independent properties…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Akul Mallayya Swami

Quality inspection has become crucial in any large-scale manufacturing industry recently. In order to reduce human error, it has become imperative to use efficient and low computational AI algorithms to identify such defective products. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Bharath Kumar Bolla , Mohan Kingam , Sabeesh Ethiraj

Deep neural networks with large model sizes achieve state-of-the-art results for tasks in computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP). However, these large-scale models are too compute- or memory-intensive for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yang Hu , Connor Imes , Xuanang Zhao , Souvik Kundu , Peter A. Beerel , Stephen P. Crago , John Paul N. Walters

Since emerging edge applications such as Internet of Things (IoT) analytics and augmented reality have tight latency constraints, hardware AI accelerators have been recently proposed to speed up deep neural network (DNN) inference run by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Qianlin Liang , Walid A. Hanafy , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , Prashant Shenoy

The success of deep neural networks (DNNs) is attributable to three factors: increased compute capacity, more complex models, and more data. These factors, however, are not always present, especially for edge applications such as autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Bichen Wu

The increasing computational demands of deep learning models pose significant challenges for edge devices. To address this, we propose a memristor-based circuit design for MobileNetV3, specifically for image classification tasks. Our design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Jiale Li , Zhihang Liu , Sean Longyu Ma , Chiu-Wing Sham , Chong Fu

Mobile devices can offload deep neural network (DNN)-based inference to the cloud, overcoming local hardware and energy limitations. However, offloading adds communication delay, thus increasing the overall inference time, and hence it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Roberto G. Pacheco , Rodrigo S. Couto , Osvaldo Simeone

Edge inference is a technology that enables real-time data processing and analysis on clients near the data source. To ensure compliance with the Service-Level Objectives (SLOs), such as a 30% latency reduction target, caching is usually…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Wenyi Liang , Jianchun Liu , Hongli Xu , Chunming Qiao , Liusheng Huang

Deep learning applications have achieved great success in numerous real-world applications. Deep learning models, especially Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) are often prototyped using FPGA because it offers high power efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Adewale Adeyemo , Travis Sandefur , Tolulope A. Odetola , Syed Rafay Hasan

In this work, the task of pixel-wise semantic segmentation in the context of self-driving with a goal to reduce the inference time is explored. Fully Convolutional Network (FCN-8s, FCN-16s, and FCN-32s) with a VGG16 encoder architecture and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Sethu Hareesh Kolluru

The performance of mobile AI accelerators has been evolving rapidly in the past two years, nearly doubling with each new generation of SoCs. The current 4th generation of mobile NPUs is already approaching the results of CUDA-compatible…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Andrey Ignatov , Radu Timofte , Andrei Kulik , Seungsoo Yang , Ke Wang , Felix Baum , Max Wu , Lirong Xu , Luc Van Gool

Inference for Deep Neural Networks is increasingly being executed locally on mobile and embedded platforms due to its advantages in latency, privacy and connectivity. Since modern System on Chips typically execute a combination of different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Lei Xun , Long Tran-Thanh , Bashir M Al-Hashimi , Geoff V. Merrett

As the volume of image data grows, data-oriented cloud computing in Internet of Video Things (IoVT) systems encounters latency issues. Task-oriented edge computing addresses this by shifting data analysis to the edge. However, limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jiaqi Wu , Simin Chen , Zehua Wang , Wei Chen , Zijian Tian , F. Richard Yu , Victor C. M. Leung

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 2022-10-25 Arjun Parthasarathy , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Recent breakthroughs in deep learning (DL) have led to the emergence of many intelligent mobile applications and services, but in the meanwhile also pose unprecedented computing challenges on resource-constrained mobile devices. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Letian Zhang , Lixing Chen , Jie Xu

With the surging popularity of edge computing, the need to efficiently perform neural network inference on battery-constrained IoT devices has greatly increased. While algorithmic developments enable neural networks to solve increasingly…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Maarten Molendijk , Floran de Putter , Henk Corporaal