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The field of computer vision has grown very rapidly in the past few years due to networks like convolution neural networks and their variants. The memory required to store the model and computational expense are very high for such a network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Ranjith M S , S Parameshwara , Pavan Yadav A , Shriganesh Hegde

On-device learning enables edge devices to continually adapt the AI models to new data, which requires a small memory footprint to fit the tight memory constraint of edge devices. Existing work solves this problem by reducing the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Han Cai , Chuang Gan , Ligeng Zhu , Song Han

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are promising energy-efficient models for neuromorphic computing. For training the non-differentiable SNN models, the backpropagation through time (BPTT) with surrogate gradients (SG) method has achieved high…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Qingyan Meng , Mingqing Xiao , Shen Yan , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin , Zhi-Quan Luo

An increasing number of mobile applications rely on Machine Learning (ML) routines for analyzing data. Executing such tasks at the user devices saves the energy spent on transmitting and processing large data volumes at distant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Apostolos Galanopoulos , George Iosifidis , Theodoros Salonidis , Douglas J. Leith

This paper aims to address the major challenges of Federated Learning (FL) on edge devices: limited memory and expensive communication. We propose a novel method, called Partial Variable Training (PVT), that only trains a small subset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Tien-Ju Yang , Dhruv Guliani , Françoise Beaufays , Giovanni Motta

The exponential growth of Internet-connected devices has presented challenges to traditional centralized computing systems due to latency and bandwidth limitations. Edge computing has evolved to address these difficulties by bringing…

Training on the Edge enables neural networks to learn continuously from new data after deployment on memory-constrained edge devices. Previous work is mostly concerned with reducing the number of model parameters which is only beneficial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Abdelrahman Hosny , Marina Neseem , Sherief Reda

Motivated by the proliferation of Internet-of-Thing (IoT) devices and the rapid advances in the field of deep learning, there is a growing interest in pushing deep learning computations, conventionally handled by the cloud, to the edge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Marco Palena , Tania Cerquitelli , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Federated Learning (FL) plays a critical role in distributed systems. In these systems, data privacy and confidentiality hold paramount importance, particularly within edge-based data processing systems such as IoT devices deployed in smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Humaid Ahmed Desai , Amr Hilal , Hoda Eldardiry

In some applications, edge learning is experiencing a shift in focusing from conventional learning from scratch to new two-stage learning unifying pre-training and task-specific fine-tuning. This paper considers the problem of joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zhonghao Lyu , Yuchen Li , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu , H. Vincent Poor , Shuguang Cui

On-device learning has emerged as a promising direction for AI development, particularly because of its potential to reduce latency issues and mitigate privacy risks associated with device-server communication, while improving energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Le-Trung Nguyen , Ael Quelennec , Van-Tam Nguyen , Enzo Tartaglione

Stochastic computing (SC) offers significant reductions in hardware complexity for traditional convolutional neural networks(CNNs). However, despite its advantages, stochastic computing neural networks (SCNNs) often suffer from high…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Sheng Lu , Qianhou Qu , Sungyong Jung , Qilian Liang , Chenyun Pan

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising brain-inspired energy-efficient models. Recent progress in training methods has enabled successful deep SNNs on large-scale tasks with low latency. Particularly, backpropagation through time…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Mingqing Xiao , Qingyan Meng , Zongpeng Zhang , Di He , Zhouchen Lin

Federated learning research has recently shifted from Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to Vision Transformers (ViTs) due to their superior capacity. ViTs training demands higher computational resources due to the lack of 2D inductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Meihan Wu , Tao Chang , Cui Miao , Jie Zhou , Chun Li , Xiangyu Xu , Ming Li , Xiaodong Wang

On-device computing, or edge computing, is becoming increasingly important for remote sensing, particularly in applications like deep network-based perception on on-orbit satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In these scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Dexin Duan , Peilin liu , Bingwei Hui , Fei Wen

In this paper, we consider resource allocation for edge computing in internet of things (IoT) networks. Specifically, each end device is considered as an agent, which makes its decisions on whether offloading the computation tasks to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-06 Xiaolan Liu , Zhijin Qin , Yue Gao

Intelligent real-time applications, such as video surveillance, demand intensive computation to extract status information from raw sensing data. This poses a substantial challenge in orchestrating computation and communication resources to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jingzhou Sun , Lehan Wang , Zhaojun Nan , Yuxuan Sun , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Mobile platforms must satisfy the contradictory requirements of fast response time and minimum energy consumption as a function of dynamically changing applications. To address this need, system-on-chips (SoC) that are at the heart of these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Sumit K. Mandal , Ganapati Bhat , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Partha Pratim Pande , Umit Y. Ogras

Microcontroller Units (MCUs) are ideal platforms for edge applications due to their low cost and energy consumption, and are widely used in various applications, including personalized machine learning tasks, where customized models can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yushan Huang , Ranya Aloufi , Xavier Cadet , Yuchen Zhao , Payam Barnaghi , Hamed Haddadi

With the prosperity of mobile devices, the distributed learning approach enabling model training with decentralized data has attracted wide research. However, the lack of training capability for edge devices significantly limits the energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Ziyang Hong , C. Patrick Yue