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Deep Learning is increasingly being adopted by industry for computer vision applications running on embedded devices. While Convolutional Neural Networks' accuracy has achieved a mature and remarkable state, inference latency and throughput…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Miguel de Prado , Nuria Pazos , Luca Benini

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown significant advantages in a wide variety of domains. However, DNNs are becoming computationally intensive and energy hungry at an exponential pace, while at the same time, there is a vast demand for…

Incorporating biological neuronal properties into Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to enhance computational capabilities poses a formidable challenge in the field of machine learning. Inspired by recent findings indicating that dendrites…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Chongming Liu , Songting Li , Douglas Zhou

Almost in every heavily computation-dependent application, from 6G communication systems to autonomous driving platforms, a large portion of computing should be near to the client side. Edge computing (AI at Edge) in mobile devices is one…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Seyed Nima Omidsajedi , Rekha Reddy , Jianming Yi , Jan Herbst , Christoph Lipps , Hans Dieter Schotten

Autonomous driving demands accurate perception and safe decision-making. To achieve this, automated vehicles are now equipped with multiple sensors (e.g., camera, Lidar, etc.), enabling them to exploit complementary environmental context by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Xiaoming Zeng , Zhendong Wang , Yang Hu

We investigate the optimization of graph topologies for quantum sensing networks designed to estimate weak magnetic fields. The sensors are modeled as spin systems governed by a transverse-field Ising Hamiltonian in thermal equilibrium at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Asghar Ullah , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu , Matteo G. A. Paris

We report on a gate-based variational quantum classifier implemented with single photons and probabilistic gates, to emulate the standard quantum circuit model framework. We evaluate the expressive power of two deployable quantum neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Solomon McKiernan , Luca Sapienza

In this paper, we describe a conceptual design methodology to design distributed neural network architectures that can perform efficient inference within sensor networks with communication bandwidth constraints. The different sensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Thomas Strypsteen , Alexander Bertrand

Distributed quantum computing (DQC) is widely regarded as a promising approach to overcome quantum hardware limitations. A major challenge in DQC lies in reducing the communication cost introduced by remote CNOT gates, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Hui Zhong , Jiachen Shen , Lei Fan , Xinyue Zhang , Hao Wang , Miao Pan , Zhu Han

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

Designing quantum neural networks (QNNs) that are both accurate and deployable on NISQ hardware is challenging. Handcrafted ansatze must balance expressivity, trainability, and resource use, while limited qubits often necessitate circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Kooshan Maleki , Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique

Multi-sensor systems are widely used in the Internet of Things, environmental monitoring, and intelligent manufacturing. However, traditional fixed-frequency sampling strategies often lead to severe data redundancy, high energy consumption,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Weiqiang Huang , Juecen Zhan , Yumeng Sun , Xu Han , Tai An , Nan Jiang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have significantly improved the accuracy of intelligent applications on mobile devices. DNN surgery, which partitions DNN processing between mobile devices and multi-access edge computing (MEC) servers, can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Xiang Yang , Dezhi Chen , Qi Qi , Jingyu Wang , Haifeng Sun , Jianxin Liao , Song Guo

The inference of deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained embedded systems introduces non-trivial trade-offs among model accuracy, computational latency, and hardware limitations, particularly when real-time constraints must be…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-11 T. Baldi , D. Casini , A. Biondi

A surge in artificial intelligence and autonomous technologies have increased the demand toward enhanced edge-processing capabilities. Computational complexity and size of state-of-the-art Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are rising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Rawan Naous , Lazar Supic , Yoonhwan Kang , Ranko Sredojevic , Anish Singhani , Vladimir Stojanovic

The brain is dynamic, associative and efficient. It reconfigures by associating the inputs with past experiences, with fused memory and processing. In contrast, AI models are static, unable to associate inputs with past experiences, and run…

As artificial intelligence continues to drive innovation in complex, decentralized environments, the need for scalable, adaptive, and privacy-preserving decision-making systems has become critical. This paper introduces a novel framework…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Aarav Lala , Kalyan Cherukuri

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

This work introduces lightweight extensions to the RISC-V ISA to boost the efficiency of heavily Quantized Neural Network (QNN) inference on microcontroller-class cores. By extending the ISA with nibble (4-bit) and crumb (2-bit) SIMD…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Angelo Garofalo , Giuseppe Tagliavini , Francesco Conti , Luca Benini , Davide Rossi

As machine learning inferences increasingly move to edge devices, adapting to diverse computational capabilities, hardware, and memory constraints becomes more critical. Instead of relying on a pre-trained model fixed for all future…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Xiangchen Li , Saeid Ghafouri , Bo Ji , Hans Vandierendonck , Deepu John , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos