English
Related papers

Related papers: Early-Exit meets Model-Distributed Inference at Ed…

200 papers

Deep Neural Network (DNN) applications with edge computing presents a trade-off between responsiveness and computational resources. On one hand, edge computing can provide high responsiveness deploying computational resources close to end…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Roberto G. Pacheco , Rodrigo S. Couto

The accurate modeling of semiconductor devices plays a critical role in the development of new technology nodes and next-generation devices. Semiconductor device designers largely rely on advanced simulation software to solve the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Roberto Riganti , Matteo G. C. Alasio , Enrico Bellotti , Luca Dal Negro

In Large Language Model (LLM) inference, early-exit refers to stopping computation at an intermediate layer once the prediction is sufficiently confident, thereby reducing latency and cost. However, recent LLMs adopt improved pretraining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Rui Wei , Rui Du , Hanfei Yu , Devesh Tiwari , Jian Li , Zhaozhuo Xu , Hao Wang

The ability to dynamically adjust the computational load of neural models during inference in a resource aware manner is crucial for on-device processing scenarios, characterised by limited and time-varying computational resources.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Maxence Lasbordes , Daniele Falavigna , Alessio Brutti

Partitioned DNN inference is a promising approach for latency-sensitive intelligent services in edge networks, since it allows different parts of a model to be executed across end devices, edge servers, and the cloud. However, in a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jinkun Zhang , Poonam Yadav

We consider distributed machine learning at the wireless edge, where a parameter server builds a global model with the help of multiple wireless edge devices that perform computations on local dataset partitions. Edge devices transmit the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Jaeyoung Song , Marios Kountouris

Despite all the advantages associated with Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) that utilize machine learning (ML) models, there is a significant reluctance among cyber security experts to implement these models in real-world…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ayush Kumar , Kar Wai Fok , Vrizlynn L. L. Thing

Cooperative inference in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), achieved by deploying partitioned Deep Neural Network (DNN) models between resource-constrained user equipments (UEs) and edge servers (ESs), has emerged as a promising paradigm.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Xinrui Ye , Yanzan Sun , Dingzhu Wen , Guanjin Pan , Shunqing Zhang

Edge computing has been emerging as a popular scenario for model inference. However, the inference performance on edge devices (e.g., Multi-Core DSP, FGPA, etc.) suffers from inefficiency due to the lack of highly optimized inference…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Zhang Runhua , Jiang Hongxu , Tian Fangzheng , Geng Jinkun , Li Xiaobin , Ma Yuhang , Zhu Chenhui , Dong Dong , Li Xin , Wang Haojie

Deep neural networks are state of the art methods for many learning tasks due to their ability to extract increasingly better features at each network layer. However, the improved performance of additional layers in a deep network comes at…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Surat Teerapittayanon , Bradley McDanel , H. T. Kung

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

Early-exit mechanisms allow deep neural networks to stop inference once prediction confidence is high, reducing latency and energy on easy inputs while retaining full-depth accuracy on harder ones. Similarly, adding early exit mechanisms to…

The Hierarchical Inference (HI) paradigm employs a tiered processing: the inference from simple data samples are accepted at the end device, while complex data samples are offloaded to the central servers. HI has recently emerged as an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Adarsh Prasad Behera , Roberto Morabito , Joerg Widmer , Jaya Prakash Champati

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a new research frontier with various applications and successes. The end-to-end inference for all nodes, is common for GNN embedding models, which are widely adopted in applications like recommendation and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Shiyang Chen , Xiang Song , Vasiloudis Theodore , Hang Liu

As deep neural networks continue to expand and become more complex, most edge devices are unable to handle their extensive processing requirements. Therefore, the concept of distributed inference is essential to distribute the neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Fazeela Mazhar Khan , Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Mounir Hamdi

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

Recently, deep neural networks have been outperforming conventional machine learning algorithms in many computer vision-related tasks. However, it is not computationally acceptable to implement these models on mobile and IoT devices and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Behnam Zeinali , Di Zhuang , J. Morris Chang

Machine Intelligence (MI) technologies have revolutionized the design and applications of computational intelligence systems, by introducing remarkable scientific and technological enhancements across domains. MI can improve Internet of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Edgar Ramos , Roberto Morabito , Jani-Pekka Kainulainen

Recent breakthroughs in deep learning (DL) have led to the emergence of many intelligent mobile applications and services, but in the meanwhile also pose unprecedented computing challenges on resource-constrained mobile devices. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Letian Zhang , Lixing Chen , Jie Xu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) underpin many machine learning applications. Production quality DNN models achieve high inference accuracy by training millions of DNN parameters which has a significant resource footprint. This presents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Bailey J. Eccles , Philip Rodgers , Peter Kilpatrick , Ivor Spence , Blesson Varghese