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For many practical applications, a high computational cost of inference over deep network architectures might be unacceptable. A small degradation in the overall inference accuracy might be a reasonable price to pay for a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Assaf Lahiany , Yehudit Aperstein

Well-trained deep neural networks (DNNs) treat all test samples equally during prediction. Adaptive DNN inference with early exiting leverages the observation that some test examples can be easier to predict than others. This paper presents…

Early-exit neural networks (EENNs) accelerate inference by allowing intermediate classifiers to stop computation once predictions are confident enough. Most methods rely on confidence thresholds for exiting, and consequently, improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Piotr Kubaty , Filip Szatkowski , Grzegorz Choczyński , Eric Nalisnick , Bartosz Wójcik

Scaling machine learning models significantly improves their performance. However, such gains come at the cost of inference being slow and resource-intensive. Early-exit neural networks (EENNs) offer a promising solution: they accelerate…

Early-exit neural networks (EENNs) enable adaptive and efficient inference by providing predictions at multiple stages during the forward pass. In safety-critical applications, these predictions are meaningful only when accompanied by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Metod Jazbec , Patrick Forré , Stephan Mandt , Dan Zhang , Eric Nalisnick

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…

Early Exit (EE) techniques have emerged as a means to reduce inference latency in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The latency improvement and accuracy in these techniques crucially depend on the criteria used to make exit decisions. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

Early Exit Neural Networks (EENNs) present a solution to enhance the efficiency of neural network deployments. However, creating EENNs is challenging and requires specialized domain knowledge, due to the large amount of additional design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Max Sponner , Lorenzo Servadei , Bernd Waschneck , Robert Wille , Akash Kumar

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully applied in various fields. In DNNs, a large number of multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations are required to be performed, posing critical challenges in applying them in resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jingcun Wang , Bing Li , Grace Li Zhang

By adding exiting layers to the deep learning networks, early exit can terminate the inference earlier with accurate results. The passive decision-making of whether to exit or continue the next layer has to go through every pre-placed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Xiangjie Li , Chenfei Lou , Zhengping Zhu , Yuchi Chen , Yingtao Shen , Yehan Ma , An Zou

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for automatic modulation classification (AMC) by directly extracting discriminative features from raw in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) signals. However, deploying CNN-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Zheng Liu , Hatem Abou-Zeid , Huaqing Wu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become indispensable for solving machine learning tasks in speech recognition, computer vision, and other areas that involve high-dimensional data. A CNN filters the input feature using a network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Jonathan Ephrath , Moshe Eliasof , Lars Ruthotto , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

By leveraging the data sample diversity, the early-exit network recently emerges as a prominent neural network architecture to accelerate the deep learning inference process. However, intermediate classifiers of the early exits introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rongkang Dong , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Deep neural networks have long training and processing times. Early exits added to neural networks allow the network to make early predictions using intermediate activations in the network in time-sensitive applications. However, early…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Devdhar Patel , Hava Siegelmann

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently become the state-of-the-art in a diversity of AI tasks. Despite their popularity, CNN inference still comes at a high computational cost. A growing body of work aims to alleviate this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Stefanos Laskaridis , Stylianos I. Venieris , Hyeji Kim , Nicholas D. Lane

DNNs are becoming less and less over-parametrised due to recent advances in efficient model design, through careful hand-crafted or NAS-based methods. Relying on the fact that not all inputs require the same amount of computation to yield a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Stefanos Laskaridis , Alexandros Kouris , Nicholas D. Lane

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) filter the input data using spatial convolution operators with compact stencils. Commonly, the convolution operators couple features from all channels, which leads to immense computational cost in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Jonathan Ephrath , Lars Ruthotto , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have drawn attention because of their outstanding performance on various tasks. However, deploying full-fledged DNNs in resource-constrained devices (edge, mobile, IoT) is difficult due to their large size. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Divya J. Bajpai , Vivek K. Trivedi , Sohan L. Yadav , Manjesh K. Hanawal

Early-exit neural networks enable adaptive inference by allowing predictions at intermediate layers, reducing computational cost. However, early exits often lack interpretability and may focus on different features than deeper layers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yanhua Zhao

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have grown increasingly large in size to achieve state of the art performance across a wide range of tasks. However, their high computational requirements make them less suitable for resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal
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