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Delay-sensitive Internet of Things (IoT) applications have drawn significant attention. Running many of these applications on IoT devices is challenging due to the limited processing resources of these devices and the need for real-time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Azadeh Pourkabirian , Amir Masoud Rahmani , Kai Li , Wei Ni

We propose integrating the edge-computing paradigm into the multi-robot collaborative scheduling to maximize resource utilization for complex collaborative tasks, which many robots must perform together. Examples include collaborative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Nazish Tahir , Ramviyas Parasuraman

The growing demand for intelligent services on resource-constrained edge devices has spurred the development of collaborative inference systems that distribute workloads across end devices, edge servers, and the cloud. While most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Seohyeon Cha , Kevin Chan , Gustavo de Veciana , Haris Vikalo

Despite the importance of sparsity in many large-scale applications, there are few methods for distributed optimization of sparsity-inducing objectives. In this paper, we present a communication-efficient framework for L1-regularized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Virginia Smith , Simone Forte , Michael I. Jordan , Martin Jaggi

Model sparsification in deep learning promotes simpler, more interpretable models with fewer parameters. This not only reduces the model's memory footprint and computational needs but also shortens inference time. This work focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Richa Upadhyay , Ronald Phlypo , Rajkumar Saini , Marcus Liwicki

In mobile edge computing systems, an edge node may have a high load when a large number of mobile devices offload their tasks to it. Those offloaded tasks may experience large processing delay or even be dropped when their deadlines expire.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Ming Tang , Vincent W. S. Wong

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a prominent technique to provide mobile services with high computation requirement, by migrating the computation-intensive tasks from the mobile devices to the nearby MEC servers. To reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

We present here a cost effective framework for a robust scalable and distributed job processing system that adapts to the dynamic computing needs easily with efficient load balancing for heterogeneous systems. The design is such that each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Putti Srinivasrao , V. P. C. Rao , A. Govardhan , Ambika Prasad Mohanty

Linear recurrent neural networks enable powerful long-range sequence modeling with constant memory usage and time-per-token during inference. These architectures hold promise for streaming applications at the edge, but deployment in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Alessandro Pierro , Steven Abreu , Jonathan Timcheck , Philipp Stratmann , Andreas Wild , Sumit Bam Shrestha

Computation offloading is often used in mobile cloud, edge, and/or fog computing to cope with resource limitations of mobile devices in terms of computational power, storage, and energy. Computation offloading is particularly challenging in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Artur Sterz , Lars Baumgärtner , Jonas höchst , Patrick Lampe , Bernd Freisleben

On edge devices, data scarcity occurs as a common problem where transfer learning serves as a widely-suggested remedy. Nevertheless, transfer learning imposes a heavy computation burden to resource-constrained edge devices. Existing task…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Zimu Zheng , Qiong Chen , Chuang Hu , Dan Wang , Fangming Liu

We consider a multi-user multi-server mobile edge computing (MEC) system, in which users arrive on a network randomly over time and generate computation tasks, which will be computed either locally on their own computing devices or be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Muhammad Sohaib , Sang-Woon Jeon , Wei Yu

In this paper, the task offloading from vehicles with random velocities is optimized via a novel dynamic improvement framework. Particularly, in a vehicular network with multiple vehicles and base stations (BSs), computing tasks of vehicles…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Qianren Li , Yuncong Hong , Bojie Lv , Rui Wang

Models of parallel processing systems typically assume that one has $l$ workers and jobs are split into an equal number of $k=l$ tasks. Splitting jobs into $k > l$ smaller tasks, i.e. using ``tiny tasks'', can yield performance and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Stefan Bora , Brenton Walker , Markus Fidler

We aim to train a multi-task model such that users can adjust the desired compute budget and relative importance of task performances after deployment, without retraining. This enables optimizing performance for dynamically varying user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Abhishek Aich , Samuel Schulter , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Manmohan Chandraker , Yumin Suh

Large-scale machine learning (ML) models are increasingly being used in critical domains like education, lending, recruitment, healthcare, criminal justice, etc. However, the training, deployment, and utilization of these models demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Ding Zhu , Zhiqun Zuo , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili

Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) systems require load balancing to maintain consistent service across regions with uneven demand subject to time-varying traffic conditions. The load-balancing objective is to jointly minimize the fraction of lost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-22 Rebecca Swaszek , Christos Cassandras

Most existing deep multi-task learning models are based on parameter sharing, such as hard sharing, hierarchical sharing, and soft sharing. How choosing a suitable sharing mechanism depends on the relations among the tasks, which is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Tianxiang Sun , Yunfan Shao , Xiaonan Li , Pengfei Liu , Hang Yan , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Edge computing (EC), positioned near end devices, holds significant potential for delivering low-latency, energy-efficient, and secure services. This makes it a crucial component of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, the increasing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yang Li , Xing Zhang , Bo Lei , Qianying Zhao , Min Wei , Zheyan Qu , Wenbo Wang

This letter investigates a cache-enabled multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system with dynamic task arrivals, taking into account the impact of proactive cache placement on the system's overall energy consumption. We consider that an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jingxuan Liang , Hong Xing , Feng Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau