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Transformer models are rapidly becoming a cornerstone of modern Internet of Things (IoT) applications, yet their computational and memory demands far exceed the capabilities of a single typical ultra-low-power IoT device. We present CATS, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Alexander Gräfe , Ding Huo , Vincent de Bakker , Johannes Berger , Marco Zimmerling , Sebastian Trimpe

DEEPTHINK methods improve reasoning by generating, refining, and aggregating populations of candidate solutions, which enables strong performance on complex mathematical and scientific tasks. However, existing frameworks often lack reliable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Rituraj Sharma , Weiyuan Chen , Noah Provenzano , Tu Vu

We introduce Model-Distributed Inference for Large-Language Models (MDI-LLM), a novel framework designed to facilitate the deployment of state-of-the-art large-language models (LLMs) across low-power devices at the edge. This is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Davide Macario , Hulya Seferoglu , Erdem Koyuncu

We introduce PRISM (Predictive Reasoning in Sequential Medicine), a transformer-based architecture designed to model the sequential progression of clinical decision-making processes. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on isolated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Lionel Levine , John Santerre , Alex S. Young , T. Barry Levine , Francis Campion , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Distributed inference techniques can be broadly classified into data-distributed and model-distributed schemes. In data-distributed inference (DDI), each worker carries the entire Machine Learning (ML) model but processes only a subset of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Teng Li , Hulya Seferoglu

Understanding how anatomical shapes evolve in response to developmental covariates and quantifying their spatially varying uncertainties is critical in healthcare research. Existing approaches typically rely on global time-warping…

Large Language Models (LLMs), constrained by their auto-regressive nature, suffer from slow decoding. Speculative decoding methods have emerged as a promising solution to accelerate LLM decoding, attracting attention from both systems and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xuliang Wang , Yuetao Chen , Maochan Zhen , Fang Liu , Xinzhou Zheng , Xingwu Liu , Hong Xu , Ming Li

We introduce PRISM, a method for real-time filtering in a probabilistic generative model of agent motion and visual perception. Previous approaches either lack uncertainty estimates for the map and agent state, do not run in real-time, do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Atanas Mirchev , Baris Kayalibay , Ahmed Agha , Patrick van der Smagt , Daniel Cremers , Justin Bayer

Generative sequence modeling faces a fundamental tension between the expressivity of Transformers and the efficiency of linear sequence models. Existing efficient architectures are theoretically bounded by shallow, single-step linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jie Jiang , Ke Cheng , Xin Xu , Mengyang Pang , Tianhao Lu , Jiaheng Li , Yue Liu , Yuan Wang , Jun Zhang , Huan Yu , Zhouchen Lin

Robotic imitation learning typically requires models that capture multimodal action distributions while operating at real-time control rates and accommodating multiple sensing modalities. Although recent generative approaches such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Amisha Bhaskar , Pratap Tokekar , Stefano Di Cairano , Alexander Schperberg

Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) transfers knowledge from a teacher to a student without access to the real in-distribution (ID) data. While existing methods perform well on small-scale images, they suffer from mode collapse when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xuewan He , Jielei Wang , Zihan Cheng , Yuchen Su , Shiyue Huang , Guoming Lu

Modern machine learning tools such as deep neural networks (DNNs) are playing a revolutionary role in many fields such as natural language processing, computer vision, and the internet of things. Once they are trained, deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Arjun Parthasarathy , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

The application of Transformer-based large models has achieved numerous success in recent years. However, the exponential growth in the parameters of large models introduces formidable memory challenge for edge deployment. Prior works to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Xueyuan Han , Zinuo Cai , Yichu Zhang , Chongxin Fan , Junhan Liu , Ruhui Ma , Rajkumar Buyya

Multivariate time series classification supports applications from wearable sensing to biomedical monitoring and demands models that can capture both short-term patterns and multi-scale temporal dependencies. Despite recent advances,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Federico Zucchi , Thomas Lampert

Inference over large-scale foundation models within heterogeneous edge environments necessitates a fundamentally reconfigurable orchestration substrate. Static partitioning of model layers presumes temporal stability across compute and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Aladin Djuhera , Fernando Koch , Alecio Binotto

Large model training beyond tens of thousands of GPUs is an uncharted territory. At such scales, disruptions to the training process are not a matter of if, but a matter of when -- a stochastic process degrading training productivity.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Alicia Golden , Michael Kuchnik , Samuel Hsia , Zachary DeVito , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks , Carole-Jean Wu

Foundation models (FMs) such as GPT-4 exhibit exceptional generative capabilities across diverse downstream tasks through fine-tuning. Split Federated Learning (SFL) facilitates privacy-preserving FM fine-tuning on resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Songyuan Li , Jia Hu , Geyong Min , Haojun Huang

Diffusion MRI microstructure fitting is nonconvex and often performed voxelwise, which limits fiber peak recovery in narrow crossings. This work introduces PRISM, a differentiable analysis-by-synthesis framework that fits an explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Mohamed Abouagour , Atharva Shah , Eleftherios Garyfallidis

Pretrained vision foundation models deliver strong performance across tasks with limited fine-tuning. However, their Vision Transformer (ViT) backbones impose high inference costs, limiting deployment on resource-constrained devices. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Carmelo Scribano , Mohammad Mahdi , Nedyalko Prisadnikov , Yuqian Fu , Giorgia Franchini , Danda Pani Paudel , Marko Bertogna , Luc Van Gool

Nowadays, visual intelligence tools have become ubiquitous, offering all kinds of convenience and possibilities. However, these tools have high computational requirements that exceed the capabilities of resource-constrained mobile and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zihao Ding , Mufeng Zhu , Zhongze Tang , Sheng Wei , Yao Liu