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With the wide adoption of AI applications, there is a pressing need of enabling real-time neural network (NN) inference on small embedded devices, but deploying NNs and achieving high performance of NN inference on these small devices is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Kai Huang , Wei Gao

Edge computing is an emerging paradigm to enable low-latency applications, like mobile augmented reality, because it takes the computation on processing devices that are closer to the users. On the other hand, the need for highly scalable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

Edge machine learning (ML) enables localized processing of data on devices and is underpinned by deep neural networks (DNNs). However, DNNs cannot be easily run on devices due to their substantial computing, memory and energy requirements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Bailey J. Eccles , Leon Wong , Blesson Varghese

Neural networks (NNs) lack measures of "reliability" estimation that would enable reasoning over their predictions. Despite the vital importance, especially in areas of human well-being and health, state-of-the-art uncertainty estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Lorena Qendro , Jagmohan Chauhan , Alberto Gil C. P. Ramos , Cecilia Mascolo

The next-generation of wireless networks will enable many machine learning (ML) tools and applications to efficiently analyze various types of data collected by edge devices for inference, autonomy, and decision making purposes. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Mingzhe Chen , Deniz Gündüz , Kaibin Huang , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan , H. Vincent Poor

Due to limited resources on edge and different characteristics of deep neural network (DNN) models, it is a big challenge to optimize DNN inference performance in terms of energy consumption and end-to-end latency on edge devices. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Ziyang Zhang , Yang Zhao , Huan Li , Changyao Lin , Jie Liu

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…

Computer vision on low-power edge devices enables applications including search-and-rescue and security. State-of-the-art computer vision algorithms, such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), are too large for inference on low-power edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Abhinav Goel , Caleb Tung , Xiao Hu , George K. Thiruvathukal , James C. Davis , Yung-Hsiang Lu

Collaborative inference enables resource-constrained edge devices to make inferences by uploading inputs (e.g., images) to a server (i.e., cloud) where the heavy deep learning models run. While this setup works cost-effectively for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Sumaiya Tabassum Nimi , Md Adnan Arefeen , Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin , Yugyung Lee

With the increased penetration and proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, there is a growing trend towards distributing the power of deep learning (DL) across edge devices rather than centralizing it in the cloud. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yuhao Chen , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen

With deep neural networks (DNNs) emerging as the backbone in a multitude of computer vision tasks, their adoption in real-world applications broadens continuously. Given the abundance and omnipresence of smart devices in the consumer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Alexandros Kouris , Stylianos I. Venieris , Stefanos Laskaridis , Nicholas D. Lane

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

Mobile deep vision systems play a vital role in numerous scenarios. However, deep learning applications in mobile vision scenarios face problems such as tight computing resources. With the development of edge computing, the architecture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Huan Cui , Qing Li , Hanling Wang , Yong jiang

Currently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved a great success in various applications. Traditional deployment for DNNs in the cloud may incur a prohibitively serious delay in transferring input data from the end devices to the cloud.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Bin Lin , Yinhao Huang , Jianshan Zhang , Junqin Hu , Xing Chen , Jun Li

Edge computing offers an additional layer of compute infrastructure closer to the data source before raw data from privacy-sensitive and performance-critical applications is transferred to a cloud data center. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Francis McNamee , Schahram Dustadar , Peter Kilpatrick , Weisong Shi , Ivor Spence , Blesson Varghese

Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the user's geographical location to improve response times and save bandwidth. It also helps to power a variety of applications requiring…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Ravi Shankar , Aryabartta Sahu

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

Since emerging edge applications such as Internet of Things (IoT) analytics and augmented reality have tight latency constraints, hardware AI accelerators have been recently proposed to speed up deep neural network (DNN) inference run by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Qianlin Liang , Walid A. Hanafy , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , Prashant Shenoy

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

Deploying large language model inference remains challenging due to their high computational overhead. Early exit optimizes model inference by adaptively reducing the number of inference layers. Current methods typically train internal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Lianming Huang , Shangyu Wu , Yufei Cui , Ying Xiong , Haibo Hu , Xue Liu , Tei-Wei Kuo , Nan Guan , Chun Jason Xue