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The edge intelligence (EI) has been widely applied recently. Spliting the model between device, edge server, and cloud can improve the performance of EI greatly. The model segmentation without user mobility has been investigated deeply by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xin Yuan , Ning Li , kang Wei , Wenchao Xu , Quan Chen , Hao Chen , Song Guo

Mobile edge devices (e.g., AR/VR headsets) typically need to complete timely inference tasks while operating with limited on-board computing and energy resources. In this paper, we investigate the problem of collaborative inference in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fatemeh Zahra Safaeipour , Jacob Chakareski , Morteza Hashemi

Collaborative deep learning inference between low-resource endpoint devices and edge servers has received significant research interest in the last few years. Such computation partitioning can help reducing endpoint device energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Jani Boutellier , Bo Tan , Jari Nurmi

Even the AI has been widely used and significantly changed our life, deploying the large AI models on resource limited edge devices directly is not appropriate. Thus, the model split inference is proposed to improve the performance of edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Xin Yuan , Ning Li , Quan Chen , Wenchao Xu , Zhaoxin Zhang , Song Guo

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

This paper studies task-oriented edge networks where multiple edge internet-of-things nodes execute machine learning tasks with the help of powerful deep neural networks (DNNs) at a network cloud. Separate edge nodes (ENs) result in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hoon Lee , Seung-Wook Kim

Deep Neural Network (DNN) splitting is one of the key enablers of edge Artificial Intelligence (AI), as it allows end users to pre-process data and offload part of the computational burden to nearby Edge Cloud Servers (ECSs). This opens new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Francesco Binucci , Mattia Merluzzi , Paolo Banelli , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Decentralized LLM inference distributes computation among heterogeneous nodes across the internet, offering a performant and cost-efficient solution, alternative to traditional centralized inference. However, the low cross-node network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Jiu Chen , Shuangyan Yang , Xu Xiong , Hexiao Duan , Xinran Zhang , Jie Ren , Dong Li

Mobile devices increasingly rely on deep neural networks (DNNs) for complex inference tasks, but running entire models locally drains the device battery quickly. Offloading computation entirely to cloud or edge servers reduces processing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Tam Thanh Nguyen , Tuan Van Ngo , Long Thanh Le , Yong Hao Pua , Mao Van Ngo , Binbin Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

With smartphones' omnipresence in people's pockets, Machine Learning (ML) on mobile is gaining traction as devices become more powerful. With applications ranging from visual filters to voice assistants, intelligence on mobile comes in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Mario Almeida , Stefanos Laskaridis , Abhinav Mehrotra , Lukasz Dudziak , Ilias Leontiadis , Nicholas D. Lane

Partitioning and distributing deep neural networks (DNNs) across end-devices, edge resources and the cloud has a potential twofold advantage: preserving privacy of the input data, and reducing the ingress bandwidth demand beyond the edge.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Luke Lockhart , Paul Harvey , Pierre Imai , Peter Willis , Blesson Varghese

Partitioning and deploying Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) across edge nodes may be used to meet performance objectives of applications. However, the failure of a single node may result in cascading failures that will adversely impact the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Ayesha Abdul Majeed , Peter Kilpatrick , Ivor Spence , Blesson Varghese

Recent advancements in edge computing have significantly enhanced the AI capabilities of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, these advancements introduce new challenges in knowledge exchange and resource management, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Gleb Radchenko , Victoria Andrea Fill

As AI applications for mobile devices become more prevalent, there is an increasing need for faster execution and lower energy consumption for deep learning model inference. Historically, the models run on mobile devices have been smaller…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Mateen Ulhaq

The increasing demand for on-device deep learning services calls for a highly efficient manner to deploy deep neural networks (DNNs) on mobile devices with limited capacity. The cloud-based solution is a promising approach to enabling deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Ji Wang , Jianguo Zhang , Weidong Bao , Xiaomin Zhu , Bokai Cao , Philip S. Yu

Edge intelligence has arisen as a promising computing paradigm for supporting miscellaneous smart applications that rely on machine learning techniques. While the community has extensively investigated multi-tier edge deployment for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Liekang Zeng , Chongyu Yang , Peng Huang , Zhi Zhou , Shuai Yu , Xu Chen

Wireless traffic attributable to machine learning (ML) inference workloads is increasing with the proliferation of applications and smart wireless devices leveraging ML inference. Owing to limited compute capabilities at these "edge"…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Sarabjot Singh

The emergence of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has transformed the scaling of large language models by enabling vast model capacity through sparse activation. Yet, converting these performance gains into practical edge deployment remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Tian Wu , Liming Wang , Zijian Wen , Xiaoxi Zhang , Xu Chen , Jingpu Duan , Xianwei Zhang , Jinhang Zuo

Model compression has emerged as an important area of research for deploying deep learning models on Internet-of-Things (IoT). However, for extremely memory-constrained scenarios, even the compressed models cannot fit within the memory of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-30 Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Chingyi Lin , Anderson Sartor , Radu Marculescu

With the ever-increasing range of applications of Internet in Things (IoT) and sensor networks, challenges are emerging in various categories of classification tasks. Applications such as vehicular networking, UAV swarm coordination and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Andrew Nash , Dirk Pesch , Krishnendu Guha