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Recently, pre-trained Transformer based language models such as BERT and GPT, have shown great improvement in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, these models contain a large amount of parameters. The emergence of even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Ofir Zafrir , Guy Boudoukh , Peter Izsak , Moshe Wasserblat

Deploying large-scale transformer models on edge devices presents significant challenges due to strict constraints on memory, compute, and latency. In this work, we propose a lightweight yet effective multi-stage optimization pipeline…

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Transformers' compute-intensive operations pose enormous challenges for their deployment in resource-constrained EdgeAI / tinyML devices. As an established neural network compression technique, quantization reduces the hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Alberto Marchisio , Davide Dura , Maurizio Capra , Maurizio Martina , Guido Masera , Muhammad Shafique

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various computer vision applications. However, these models have considerable storage and computational overheads, making their deployment and efficient inference on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zhikai Li , Qingyi Gu

The deployment of transformer-based models on resource-constrained edge devices represents a critical challenge in enabling real-time artificial intelligence applications. This comprehensive survey examines lightweight transformer…

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Precise energy load forecasting in residential households is crucial for mitigating carbon emissions and enhancing energy efficiency; indeed, accurate forecasting enables utility companies and policymakers, who advocate sustainable energy…

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The majority of IoT devices like smartwatches, smart plugs, HVAC controllers, etc., are powered by hardware with a constrained specification (low memory, clock speed and processor) which is insufficient to accommodate and execute large,…

In this work, we quantize a trained Transformer machine language translation model leveraging INT8/VNNI instructions in the latest Intel$^\circledR$ Xeon$^\circledR$ Cascade Lake processors to improve inference performance while maintaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Aishwarya Bhandare , Vamsi Sripathi , Deepthi Karkada , Vivek Menon , Sun Choi , Kushal Datta , Vikram Saletore

Diffusion transformers have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating videos. However, their practical deployment is severely constrained by high memory usage and computational cost. Post-Training Quantization provides a practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Rundong Su , Jintao Zhang , Zhihang Yuan , Haojie Duanmu , Jianfei Chen , Jun Zhu

Computational complexity and storage requirements are crucial factors influencing the performance and efficiency of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in resource-constrained environments. This paper presents a high-performance embedded…

Efficiently querying data on embedded sensor and IoT devices is challenging given the very limited memory and CPU resources. With the increasing volumes of collected data, it is critical to process, filter, and manipulate data on the edge…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-07 David Ding , Ivan Carvalho , Ramon Lawrence

We describe a method for training accurate Transformer machine-translation models to run inference using 8-bit integer (INT8) hardware matrix multipliers, as opposed to the more costly single-precision floating-point (FP32) hardware. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Ephrem Wu

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) requires significantly more computation and memory than inference, making runtime adaptation of DNNs challenging on resource-limited IoT platforms. We propose InstantFT, an FPGA-based method for…

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State-of-the-art Transformer-based models, with gigantic parameters, are difficult to be accommodated on resource constrained embedded devices. Moreover, with the development of technology, more and more embedded devices are available to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Panjie Qi , Edwin Hsing-Mean Sha , Qingfeng Zhuge , Hongwu Peng , Shaoyi Huang , Zhenglun Kong , Yuhong Song , Bingbing Li

Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative training among multiple devices without data sharing, thus enabling privacy-sensitive applications on mobile or Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as mobile health and asset tracking.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Phung Lai , Xiaopeng Jiang , Hai Phan , Cristian Borcea , Khang Tran , An Chen , Vijaya Datta Mayyuri , Ruoming Jin

The transformer architectures with attention mechanisms have obtained success in Nature Language Processing (NLP), and Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently extended the application domains to various vision tasks. While achieving high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Mengshu Sun , Haoyu Ma , Guoliang Kang , Yifan Jiang , Tianlong Chen , Xiaolong Ma , Zhangyang Wang , Yanzhi Wang

This research introduces an FPGA-based hardware accelerator to optimize the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Fast Fourier transform (FFT) operations in AI models. The proposed design aims to improve processing speed and reduce…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hong Ding , Chia Chao Kang , SuYang Xi , Zehang Liu , Xuan Zhang , Yi Ding

The growing demand for machine learning applications in the context of the Internet of Things calls for new approaches to optimize the use of limited compute and memory resources. Despite significant progress that has been made w.r.t.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Karsten Schrödter , Jan Stenkamp , Nina Herrmann , Fabian Gieseke

This paper presents a novel end-to-end methodology for enabling the deployment of low-error deep networks on microcontrollers. To fit the memory and computational limitations of resource-constrained edge-devices, we exploit mixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Manuele Rusci , Alessandro Capotondi , Luca Benini