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Edge offloading for deep neural networks (DNNs) can be adaptive to the input's complexity by using early-exit DNNs. These DNNs have side branches throughout their architecture, allowing the inference to end earlier in the edge. The branches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Roberto G. Pacheco , Fernanda D. V. R. Oliveira , Rodrigo S. Couto

Distributed deep neural networks (DNNs) have become central to modern computer vision, yet their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices remains hindered by substantial parameter counts, computational demands, and the probability of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mahadev Sunil Kumar , Arnab Raha , Debayan Das , Gopakumar G , Rounak Chatterjee , Amitava Mukherjee

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

As the backbone technology of machine learning, deep neural networks (DNNs) have have quickly ascended to the spotlight. Running DNNs on resource-constrained mobile devices is, however, by no means trivial, since it incurs high performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-31 En Li , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

The training of deep and/or convolutional neural networks (DNNs/CNNs) is traditionally done on servers with powerful CPUs and GPUs. Recent efforts have emerged to localize machine learning tasks fully on the edge. This brings advantages in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Pranav Rama , Madison Threadgill , Andreas Gerstlauer

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art solutions for many machine learning applications, and have been widely used on mobile devices. Running DNNs on resource-constrained mobile devices often requires the help from edge servers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Wenqi Shi , Yunzhong Hou , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Yang Zhang , Lu Geng

Deep neural network (DNN) partition is a research problem that involves splitting a DNN into multiple parts and offloading them to specific locations. Because of the recent advancement in multi-access edge computing and edge intelligence,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Di Xu , Xiang He , Tonghua Su , Zhongjie Wang

With the vigorous development of artificial intelligence (AI), the intelligent applications based on deep neural network (DNN) change people's lifestyles and the production efficiency. However, the huge amount of computation and data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Weiqing Ren , Yuben Qu , Chao Dong , Yuqian Jing , Hao Sun , Qihui Wu , Song Guo

With the edge computing becoming an increasingly adopted concept in system architectures, it is expected its utilization will be additionally heightened when combined with deep learning (DL) techniques. The idea behind integrating demanding…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Mounir Bensalem , Jasenka Dizdarević , Admela Jukan

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in mobile intelligent applications. The inference for the DNNs is usually performed in the cloud. However, it leads to a large overhead of transmitting data via wireless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Guangli Li , Lei Liu , Xueying Wang , Xiao Dong , Peng Zhao , Xiaobing Feng

Computing at the edge is increasingly important since a massive amount of data is generated. This poses challenges in transporting all that data to the remote data centers and cloud, where they can be processed and analyzed. On the other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Christian Makaya , Amalendu Iyer , Jonathan Salfity , Madhu Athreya , M Anthony Lewis

Edge inference (EI) has emerged as a promising paradigm to address the growing limitations of cloud-based Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference services, such as high response latency, limited scalability, and severe data privacy exposure.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zhipeng Cheng , Xiaoyu Xia , Hong Wang , Minghui Liwang , Ning Chen , Xuwei Fan , Xianbin Wang

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been increasingly deployed on and integrated with edge devices, such as mobile phones, drones, robots and wearables. To run DNN inference directly on edge devices (a.k.a. edge inference) with a satisfactory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Bingqian Lu , Jianyi Yang , Shaolei Ren

State-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) have hundreds of millions of connections and are both computationally and memory intensive, making them difficult to deploy on embedded systems with limited hardware resources and power budgets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Song Han , Xingyu Liu , Huizi Mao , Jing Pu , Ardavan Pedram , Mark A. Horowitz , William J. Dally

As the number of edge devices with computing resources (e.g., embedded GPUs, mobile phones, and laptops) increases, recent studies demonstrate that it can be beneficial to collaboratively run convolutional neural network (CNN) inference on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Xueyu Hou , Yongjie Guan , Tao Han , Ning Zhang

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have driven increasing intelligent applications at the network edge, such as smart home, smart factory, and smart city. To deploy computationally intensive Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Liekang Zeng , Xu Chen , Zhi Zhou , Lei Yang , Junshan Zhang

In the past decade, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) achieved state-of-the-art performance in a broad range of problems, spanning from object classification and action recognition to smart building and healthcare. The flexibility that makes DNNs…

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained mobile devices presents significant challenges, particularly in achieving real-time performance while simultaneously coping with limited computational resources and battery life.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zekai Sun , Xiuxian Guan , Zheng Lin , Zihan Fang , Xiangming Cai , Zhe Chen , Fangming Liu , Heming Cui , Jie Xiong , Wei Ni , Chau Yuen

Collaborative inference systems are one of the emerging solutions for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) at the wireless network edge. Their main idea is to divide a DNN into two parts, where the first is shallow enough to be reliably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk