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When dealing with deep neural network (DNN) applications on edge devices, continuously updating the model is important. Although updating a model with real incoming data is ideal, using all of them is not always feasible due to limits, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yuya Senzaki , Christian Hamelain

On-device CNN inference for real-time computer vision applications can result in computational demands that far exceed the energy budgets of mobile devices. This paper proposes FixyNN, a co-designed hardware accelerator platform which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Paul Whatmough , Chuteng Zhou , Patrick Hansen , Matthew Mattina

This paper introduces FlexNN, a Flexible Neural Network accelerator, which adopts agile design principles to enable versatile dataflows, enhancing energy efficiency. Unlike conventional convolutional neural network accelerator architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Arnab Raha , Deepak A. Mathaikutty , Soumendu K. Ghosh , Shamik Kundu

The deep neural network (DNN) based AI applications on the edge require both low-cost computing platforms and high-quality services. However, the limited memory, computing resources, and power budget of the edge devices constrain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Yao Chen , Cole Hawkins , Kaiqi Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Cong Hao

Modern large language model (LLM) training is inherently dynamic: resource fluctuations, RLHF phase shifts, and cluster elasticity continually reshape the optimal parallelism layout, posing a significant challenge to existing training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yuanqing Wang , Yuchen Zhang , Hao Lin , Junhao Hu , Chunyang Zhu , Quanlu Zhang , Boxun Li , Guohao Dai , Zhi Yang , Daning Cheng , Yunquan Zhang , Yu Wang

Recent developments in large language models (LLMs) have introduced new requirements for efficient and robust training. As LLM clusters scale, node failures, lengthy recoveries, and bulky checkpoints erode efficiency. Infrequent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Bohan Zhao , Yuanhong Wang , Chenglin Liu , Jiagi Pan , Guang Yang , Ruitao Liu , Tingrui Zhang , Kai Luo , Wei Xu

On-device control agents, especially on mobile devices, are responsible for operating mobile devices to fulfill users' requests, enabling seamless and intuitive interactions. Integrating Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) into these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Taiyi Wang , Zhihao Wu , Jianheng Liu , Jianye Hao , Jun Wang , Kun Shao

To facilitate the evolution of edge intelligence in ever-changing environments, we study on-device incremental learning constrained in limited computation resource in this paper. Current on-device training methods just focus on efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Dingwen Zhang , Yan Li , De Cheng , Nannan Wang , Junwei Han

Fast model updates for unseen tasks on intelligent edge devices are crucial but also challenging due to the limited computational power. In this paper,we propose MetaLDC, which meta-trains braininspired ultra-efficient low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Yejia Liu , Shijin Duan , Xiaolin Xu , Shaolei Ren

The recent ground-breaking advances in deep learning networks ( DNNs ) make them attractive for embedded systems. However, it can take a long time for DNNs to make an inference on resource-limited embedded devices. Offloading the…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Ben Taylor , Vicent Sanz Marco , Willy Wolff , Yehia Elkhatib , Zheng Wang

Recent advanced studies have spent considerable human efforts on optimizing network architectures for stereo matching but hardly achieved both high accuracy and fast inference speed. To ease the workload in network design, neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Qiang Wang , Shaohuai Shi , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown their success as high-dimensional function approximators in many applications; however, training DNNs can be challenging in general. DNN training is commonly phrased as a stochastic optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Elizabeth Newman , Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung , Lars Ruthotto

This paper proposes a framework for distributed, in-storage training of neural networks on clusters of computational storage devices. Such devices not only contain hardware accelerators but also eliminate data movement between the host and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ali HeydariGorji , Mahdi Torabzadehkashi , Siavash Rezaei , Hossein Bobarshad , Vladimir Alves , Pai H. Chou

One of the key ingredients for successful optimization of modern CNNs is identifying a suitable objective. To date, the objective is fixed a-priori at training time, and any variation to it requires re-training a new network. In this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Alon Shoshan , Roey Mechrez , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

The computation and storage requirements for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are usually high. This issue limits their deployability on ubiquitous computing devices such as smart phones, wearables and autonomous drones. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Hande Alemdar , Vincent Leroy , Adrien Prost-Boucle , Frédéric Pétrot

On-device recommender systems recently have garnered increasing attention due to their advantages of providing prompt response and securing privacy. To stay current with evolving user interests, cloud-based recommender systems are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Xin Xia , Junliang Yu , Guandong Xu , Hongzhi Yin

The increasing demand for on-device training of deep neural networks (DNNs) aims to leverage personal data for high-performance applications while addressing privacy concerns and reducing communication latency. However, resource-constrained…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jinming Lu , Jiayi Tian , Hai Li , Ian Young , Zheng Zhang

Training a machine learning model is both compute and data-intensive. Most of the model training is performed on high performance compute nodes and the training data is stored near these nodes for faster training. But there is a growing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Zhifeng Lin , Krishna Giri Narra , Mingchao Yu , Salman Avestimehr , Murali Annavaram

Recently, a new trend of exploring sparsity for accelerating neural network training has emerged, embracing the paradigm of training on the edge. This paper proposes a novel Memory-Economic Sparse Training (MEST) framework targeting for…

Automated feature extraction capability and significant performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) make them suitable for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, deploying DNN on edge devices becomes prohibitive due to the colossal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Rahul Mishra , Hari Prabhat Gupta