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Recent advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated outstanding performance across various domains. However, their large size is a challenge for deployment on resource-constrained devices such as mobile, edge, and IoT…

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This work poses a distributed multi-resource allocation scheme for minimizing the weighted sum of latency and energy consumption in the on-device distributed federated learning (FL) system. Each mobile device in the system engages the model…

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This paper introduces the first low-power hardware accelerator for Spiking Transformers, an emerging alternative to traditional artificial neural networks. By modifying the base Spikformer model to use IAND instead of residual addition, the…

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This work aims to enable persistent, event-driven sensing and decision capabilities for energy-harvesting (EH)-powered devices by deploying lightweight DNNs onto EH-powered devices. However, harvested energy is usually weak and…

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We present Antler, which exploits the affinity between all pairs of tasks in a multitask inference system to construct a compact graph representation of the task set and finds an optimal order of execution of the tasks such that the…

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While privacy concerns entice connected and automated vehicles to incorporate on-board federated learning (FL) solutions, an integrated vehicle-to-everything communication with heterogeneous computation power aware learning platform is…

Recently, large-scale transformer-based models have been proven to be effective over various tasks across many domains. Nevertheless, applying them in industrial production requires tedious and heavy works to reduce inference costs. To fill…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Gongzheng Li , Yadong Xi , Jingzhen Ding , Duan Wang , Bai Liu , Changjie Fan , Xiaoxi Mao , Zeng Zhao

Accurate prediction of chip performance is critical for ensuring energy efficiency and reliability in semiconductor manufacturing. However, developing minimum operating voltage ($V_{min}$) prediction models at advanced technology nodes is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yuxuan Yin , Rebecca Chen , Boxun Xu , Chen He , Peng Li

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become the leading hardware accelerator for deep learning applications and are used widely in training and inference of transformers; transformers have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Andy He , Darren Key , Mason Bulling , Andrew Chang , Skyler Shapiro , Everett Lee

Large language models have significantly transformed multiple fields with their exceptional performance in natural language tasks, but their deployment in resource-constrained environments like edge networks presents an ongoing challenge.…

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Distributed artificial intelligence (AI) has recently accomplished tremendous breakthroughs in various communication services, ranging from fault-tolerant factory automation to smart cities. When distributed learning is run over a set of…

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Existing works on large language model (LLM) decomposition mainly focus on improving performance on downstream tasks, but they ignore the poor parallel inference performance when trying to scale up the model size. To mitigate this important…

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Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) enables the disaggregation of the global power consumption of multiple loads, taken from a single smart electrical meter, into appliance-level details. State-of-the-Art approaches are based on Machine…

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One of the challenges for Tiny Machine Learning (tinyML) is keeping up with the evolution of Machine Learning models from Convolutional Neural Networks to Transformers. We address this by leveraging a heterogeneous architectural template…

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On-device inference holds great potential for increased energy efficiency, responsiveness, and privacy in edge ML systems. However, due to less capable ML models that can be embedded in resource-limited devices, use cases are limited to…

Large Language Models (LLMs) built on transformer architectures have transformed natural language processing, achieving remarkable performance across diverse applications. While distributed inference frameworks enable practical deployment…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Lang Xu , Kaushik Kandadi Suresh , Quentin Anthony , Nawras Alnaasan , Dhabaleswar K. Panda

We show that the way inference is performed in few-shot segmentation tasks has a substantial effect on performances -- an aspect often overlooked in the literature in favor of the meta-learning paradigm. We introduce a transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Malik Boudiaf , Hoel Kervadec , Ziko Imtiaz Masud , Pablo Piantanida , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach to collaboratively train machine learning models across multiple edge devices while preserving privacy. The success of FL hinges on the efficiency of participating models and their…

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Distributed computing has become a common practice nowadays, where the recent focus has been given to the usage of smart networking devices with in-network computing capabilities. State-of-the-art switches with near-line rate computing and…

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