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The development of artificial intelligence (AI) provides opportunities for the promotion of deep neural network (DNN)-based applications. However, the large amount of parameters and computational complexity of DNN makes it difficult to…

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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as an attractive spatio-temporal computing paradigm for complex vision tasks. However, most existing works yield models that require many time steps and do not leverage the inherent temporal…

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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are bio-plausible models that hold great potential for realizing energy-efficient implementations of sequential tasks on resource-constrained edge devices. However, commercial edge platforms based on standard…

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In medical imaging, scans often reveal objects with varied contrasts but consistent internal intensities or textures. This characteristic enables the use of low-frequency approximations for tasks such as segmentation and deformation field…

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Today's intelligent applications can achieve high performance accuracy using machine learning (ML) techniques, such as deep neural networks (DNNs). Traditionally, in a remote DNN inference problem, an edge device transmits raw data to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Mounssif Krouka , Anis Elgabli , Chaouki Ben Issaid , Mehdi Bennis

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to minimize the inference delay in semantic segmentation using split learning (SL), tailored to the needs of real-time computer vision (CV) applications for resource-constrained devices. Semantic…

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The growing complexity of neural networks hinders the deployment of distributed machine learning on resource-constrained devices. Split learning (SL) offers a promising solution by partitioning the large model and offloading the primary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zehang Lin , Miao Yang , Haihan Zhu , Zheng Lin , Jianhao Huang , Jing Yang , Guangjin Pan , Dianxin Luan , Zihan Fang , Shunzhi Zhu , Wei Ni , John Thompson

The expanding scale of neural networks poses a major challenge for distributed machine learning, particularly under limited communication resources. While split learning (SL) alleviates client computational burden by distributing model…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zhen Fang , Miao Yang , Zehang Lin , Zheng Lin , Zihan Fang , Zongyuan Zhang , Tianyang Duan , Dong Huang , Shunzhi Zhu

Edge inference has become more widespread, as its diverse applications range from retail to wearable technology. Clusters of networked resource-constrained edge devices are becoming common, yet no system exists to split a DNN across these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Arjun Parthasarathy , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

We present a neuromorphic split-computing framework for energy-efficient low-latency inference over optical inter-satellite links. The system partitions a spiking neural network (SNN) between edge and core nodes. To transmit sparse spiking…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Zihang Song , Petar Popovski

A Federated Learning (FL) system collaboratively trains neural networks across devices and a server but is limited by significant on-device computation costs. Split Federated Learning (SFL) systems mitigate this by offloading a block of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zihan Zhang , Leon Wong , Blesson Varghese

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely adopted for various mobile inference tasks, yet their ever-increasing computational demands are hindering their deployment on resource-constrained mobile devices. Hybrid deep learning partitions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jing Wu , Lin Wang , Qirui Jin , Fangming Liu

Dynamic networks have shown their promising capability in reducing theoretical computation complexity by adapting their architectures to the input during inference. However, their practical runtime usually lags behind the theoretical…

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In-network computing techniques, exemplified by NVLink SHARP (NVLS), offer a promising approach to addressing the communication bottlenecks in LLM inference by offloading collective operations such as All-Reduce to switches. However, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Aojie Jiang , Kang Zhu , Zhiheng Zhang , Zhengxu Su , Juntao Liu , Yuan Du , Li Du

Large Language Models (LLMs) based on autoregressive, decoder-only Transformers generate text one token at a time, where a token represents a discrete unit of text. As each newly produced token is appended to the partial output sequence,…

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Advancements in adapting deep convolution architectures for Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have significantly enhanced image classification performance and reduced computational burdens. However, the inability of Multiplication-Free…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art solutions for many machine learning applications, and have been widely used on mobile devices. Running DNNs on resource-constrained mobile devices often requires the help from edge servers…

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Large Language Model (LLM) inference is rapidly becoming a core datacenter service, yet current serving stacks keep the host CPU on the critical path for orchestration and token-level control. This makes LLM performance sensitive to CPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Mohammad Siavashi , Mariano Scazzariello , Gerald Q. Maguire , Dejan Kostić , Marco Chiesa

Machine learning (ML) inference is a real-time workload that must comply with strict Service Level Objectives (SLOs), including latency and accuracy targets. Unfortunately, ensuring that SLOs are not violated in inference-serving systems is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Daniel Mendoza , Caroline Trippel

Deploying large language models (LLMs) on edge devices is challenging due to their limited memory and power resources. Cloud-only inference reduces device burden but introduces high latency and cost. Static edge-cloud partitions optimize a…