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The deployment of inference services at the network edge, called edge inference, offloads computation-intensive inference tasks from mobile devices to edge servers, thereby enhancing the former's capabilities and battery lives. In a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhiyan Liu , Qiao Lan , Kaibin Huang

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art solutions for many machine learning applications, and have been widely used on mobile devices. Running DNNs on resource-constrained mobile devices often requires the help from edge servers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Wenqi Shi , Yunzhong Hou , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Yang Zhang , Lu Geng

Collaborative inference among multiple wireless edge devices has the potential to significantly enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, particularly for sensing and computer vision. This approach typically involves a three-stage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Mohamed Seif , Yuqi Nie , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Automatic modulation classification (AMC) plays a critical role in wireless communications by autonomously classifying signals transmitted over the radio spectrum. Deep learning (DL) techniques are increasingly being used for AMC due to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Elsayed Mohammed , Omar Mashaal , Hatem Abou-Zeid

Collaborative inference enables resource-constrained edge devices to make inferences by uploading inputs (e.g., images) to a server (i.e., cloud) where the heavy deep learning models run. While this setup works cost-effectively for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Sumaiya Tabassum Nimi , Md Adnan Arefeen , Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin , Yugyung Lee

By adding exiting layers to the deep learning networks, early exit can terminate the inference earlier with accurate results. The passive decision-making of whether to exit or continue the next layer has to go through every pre-placed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Xiangjie Li , Chenfei Lou , Zhengping Zhu , Yuchi Chen , Yingtao Shen , Yehan Ma , An Zou

Inference latency and trustworthiness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the bottlenecks in deploying them in critical applications like sensitive tasks. Early Exit (EE) DNNs overcome the latency issues by allowing samples to exit from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

Early exiting is an effective paradigm for improving the inference efficiency of deep networks. By constructing classifiers with varying resource demands (the exits), such networks allow easy samples to be output at early exits, removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yizeng Han , Yifan Pu , Zihang Lai , Chaofei Wang , Shiji Song , Junfen Cao , Wenhui Huang , Chao Deng , Gao Huang

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

Recent advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated outstanding performance across various domains. However, their large size is a challenge for deployment on resource-constrained devices such as mobile, edge, and IoT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

The inference of Neural Networks is usually restricted by the resources (e.g., computing power, memory, bandwidth) on edge devices. In addition to improving the hardware design and deploying efficient models, it is possible to aggregate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Jun-Liang Lin , Sheng-De Wang

Mobile devices such as smartphones and autonomous vehicles increasingly rely on deep neural networks (DNNs) to execute complex inference tasks such as image classification and speech recognition, among others. However, continuously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Yoshitomo Matsubara , Marco Levorato , Francesco Restuccia

This paper investigates task-oriented communication for multi-device cooperative edge inference, where a group of distributed low-end edge devices transmit the extracted features of local samples to a powerful edge server for inference.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Deep neural network (DNN) models are increasingly popular in edge video analytic applications. However, the compute-intensive nature of DNN models pose challenges for energy-efficient inference on resource-constrained edge devices. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Ziyang Zhang , Yang Zhao , Ming-Ching Chang , Changyao Lin , Jie Liu

Implementing machine learning algorithms on Internet of things (IoT) devices has become essential for emerging applications, such as autonomous driving, environment monitoring. But the limitations of computation capability and energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xiufeng Huang , Sheng Zhou

Although deep learning has made strides in the field of deep noise suppression, leveraging deep architectures on resource-constrained devices still proved challenging. Therefore, we present an early-exiting model based on nsNet2 that…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have drawn attention because of their outstanding performance on various tasks. However, deploying full-fledged DNNs in resource-constrained devices (edge, mobile, IoT) is difficult due to their large size. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Divya J. Bajpai , Vivek K. Trivedi , Sohan L. Yadav , Manjesh K. Hanawal

Deploying deep neural networks on edge devices requires balancing accuracy, latency, and resource constraints under realistic execution conditions. To fit models within these constraints, two broad strategies have emerged: static…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Nekane Fernandez , Ivan Valdes , Steven Van Vaerenbergh , Idoia de la Iglesia , Julen Arratibel

As a driving force in the advancement of intelligent in-orbit applications, DNN models have been gradually integrated into satellites, producing daily latency-constraint and computation-intensive tasks. However, the substantial computation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jinglong Guan , Qiyang Zhang , Ilir Murturi , Praveen Kumar Donta , Schahram Dustdar , Shangguang Wang