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The success of deep neural networks (DNN) in machine perception applications such as image classification and speech recognition comes at the cost of high computation and storage complexity. Inference of uncompressed large scale DNN models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Yihao Fang , Shervin Manzuri Shalmani , Rong Zheng

This paper presents AppealNet, a novel edge/cloud collaborative architecture that runs deep learning (DL) tasks more efficiently than state-of-the-art solutions. For a given input, AppealNet accurately predicts on-the-fly whether it can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Min Li , Yu Li , Ye Tian , Li Jiang , Qiang Xu

Partitioning and distributing deep neural networks (DNNs) across end-devices, edge resources and the cloud has a potential twofold advantage: preserving privacy of the input data, and reducing the ingress bandwidth demand beyond the edge.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Luke Lockhart , Paul Harvey , Pierre Imai , Peter Willis , Blesson Varghese

With its strong modeling capacity that comes from a multi-head and multi-layer structure, Transformer is a very powerful model for learning a sequential representation and has been successfully applied to speech separation recently.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li

Emerging edge intelligence applications require the server to retrain and update deep neural networks deployed on remote edge nodes to leverage newly collected data samples. Unfortunately, it may be impossible in practice to continuously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Zhongnan Qu , Cong Liu , Lothar Thiele

The rapid advancement of deep learning has catalyzed the development of novel IoT applications, which often deploy pre-trained deep neural network (DNN) models across multiple edge devices for collaborative inference.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Runhua Zhang , Hongxu Jiang , Jinkun Geng , Yuhang Ma , Chenhui Zhu , Haojie Wang

Collaborative inference of object classification Deep neural Networks (DNNs) where resource-constrained end-devices offload partially processed data to remote edge servers to complete end-to-end processing, is becoming a key enabler of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shima Yousefi , Saptarshi Debroy

Collaborative inference in next-generation networks can enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, including autonomous driving, personal identification, and activity classification. This method involves a three-stage process: a)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Mohamed Seif , Yuqi Nie , Andrea Goldsmith , Vincent Poor

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have succeeded in many different perception tasks, e.g., computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, etc. The high-performed DNNs heavily rely on intensive resource consumption. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zhongnan Qu

Resource-constrained Edge Devices (EDs), e.g., IoT sensors and microcontroller units, are expected to make intelligent decisions using Deep Learning (DL) inference at the edge of the network. Toward this end, there is a significant research…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Ghina Al-Atat , Andrea Fresa , Adarsh Prasad Behera , Vishnu Narayanan Moothedath , James Gross , Jaya Prakash Champati

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

To deploy and operate deep neural models in production, the quality of their predictions, which might be contaminated benignly or manipulated maliciously by input distributional deviations, must be monitored and assessed. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Guy Bar-Shalom , Yonatan Geifman , Ran El-Yaniv

Deploying large language models (LLMs) in mobile and edge computing environments is constrained by limited on-device resources, scarce wireless bandwidth, and frequent model evolution. Although edge-cloud collaborative inference with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yuchen Li , Rui Kong , Zhonghao Lyu , Qiyang Li , Xinran Chen , Hengyi Cai , Lingyong Yan , Shuaiqiang Wang , Jiashu Zhao , Guangxu Zhu , Linghe Kong , Guihai Chen , Haoyi Xiong , Dawei Yin

Multi-Exit models (MEMs) use an early-exit strategy to improve the accuracy and efficiency of deep neural networks (DNNs) by allowing samples to exit the network before the last layer. However, the effectiveness of MEMs in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Akshay Mehra , Skyler Seto , Navdeep Jaitly , Barry-John Theobald

End-to-end performance estimation and measurement of deep neural network (DNN) systems become more important with increasing complexity of DNN systems consisting of hardware and software components. The methodology proposed in this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Michael J. Klaiber , Sebastian Vogel , Axel Acosta , Robert Korn , Leonardo Ecco , Kristine Back , Andre Guntoro , Ingo Feldner

Machine learning models can solve complex tasks but often require significant computational resources during inference. This has led to the development of various post-training computation reduction methods that tackle this issue in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Florence Regol , Joud Chataoui , Bertrand Charpentier , Mark Coates , Pablo Piantanida , Stephan Gunnemann

This paper proposes a communication-efficient, event-triggered inference framework for cooperative edge AI systems comprising multiple user devices and edge servers. Building upon dual-threshold early-exit strategies for rare-event…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Thai T. Vu , John Le

Edge intelligence enables AI inference at the network edge, co-located with or near the radio access network, rather than in centralized clouds or on mobile devices. It targets low-latency, resource-constrained applications with large data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Jaume Anguera Peris , Joakim Jaldén

To enhance the quality and speed of data processing and protect the privacy and security of the data, edge computing has been extensively applied to support data-intensive intelligent processing services at edge. Among these data-intensive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Yana Qin , Danye Wu , Zhiwei Xu , Jie Tian , Yujun Zhang

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications can benefit from leveraging edge computing. For example, applications underpinned by deep neural networks (DNN) models can be sliced and distributed across the IIoT device and the edge of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Hyunho Ahn , Munkyu Lee , Cheol-Ho Hong , Blesson Varghese