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1D-CNNs are used for time series classification in various domains with a high degree of accuracy. Most implementations collect the incoming data samples in a buffer before performing inference on it. On edge devices, which are typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ishwar Mudraje , Kai Vogelgesang , Thorsten Herfet

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 2022-10-25 Arjun Parthasarathy , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Running machine learning inference on tiny devices, known as TinyML, is an emerging research area. This task requires generating inference code that uses memory frugally, a task that standard ML frameworks are ill-suited for. A deployment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Shikhar Jaiswal , Rahul Kiran Kranti Goli , Aayan Kumar , Vivek Seshadri , Rahul Sharma

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are extensively utilized for deep learning on graphs. The large data sizes of graphs and their vertex features make scalable training algorithms and distributed memory systems necessary. Since the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Gunduz Vehbi Demirci , Aparajita Haldar , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

Many popular machine learning models scale poorly when deployed on CPUs. In this paper we explore the reasons why and propose a simple, yet effective approach based on the well-known Divide-and-Conquer Principle to tackle this problem of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Alex Kogan

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained mobile devices presents significant challenges, particularly in achieving real-time performance while simultaneously coping with limited computational resources and battery life.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zekai Sun , Xiuxian Guan , Zheng Lin , Zihan Fang , Xiangming Cai , Zhe Chen , Fangming Liu , Heming Cui , Jie Xiong , Wei Ni , Chau Yuen

The superior performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has led to their application in various aspects of human life. Safety-critical applications are no exception and impose rigorous reliability requirements on DNNs. Quantized Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Mohammad Hasan Ahmadilivani , Mahdi Taheri , Jaan Raik , Masoud Daneshtalab , Maksim Jenihhin

Mixed-precision neural network (MPNN) that utilizes just enough data width for the neural network processing is an effective approach to meet the stringent resources constraints including memory and computing of MCUs. Nevertheless, there is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Junfeng Gong , Cheng Liu , Long Cheng , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

Existing approaches to train neural networks that use large images require to either crop or down-sample data during pre-processing, use small batch sizes, or split the model across devices mainly due to the prohibitively limited memory…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Kushal Datta , Imtiaz Hossain , Sun Choi , Vikram Saletore , Kyle Ambert , William J. Godinez , Xian Zhang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Nikos G. Evgenidis , Nikos A. Mitsiou , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , George K. Karagiannidis

The design complexity of CNNs has been steadily increasing to improve accuracy. To cope with the massive amount of computation needed for such complex CNNs, the latest solutions utilize blocking of an image over the available dimensions and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Daejin Jung , Sunjung Lee , Wonjong Rhee , Jung Ho Ahn

Accelerating the deep learning inference is very important for real-time applications. In this paper, we propose a novel method to fuse the layers of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which applies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Xueying Wang , Guangli Li , Xiao Dong , Jiansong Li , Lei Liu , Xiaobing Feng

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) i.e. Residual Networks (ResNets) have been used successfully for many computer vision tasks, but are difficult to scale to 3D volumetric medical data. Memory is increasingly often the bottleneck…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Kashu Yamazaki , Vidhiwar Singh Rathour , T. Hoang Ngan Le

Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) have performed well in many applications such as object detection, pattern recognition, video surveillance and so on. CNN carryout feature extraction on labelled data to perform classification. Multi-label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Tolulope A. Odetola , Ogheneuriri Oderhohwo , Syed Rafay Hasan

Fixed-point quantization and binarization are two reduction methods adopted to deploy Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) on end-nodes powered by low-power micro-controller units (MCUs). While most of the existing works use them as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Luca Mocerino , Andrea Calimera

Object segmentation and structure localization are important steps in automated image analysis pipelines for microscopy images. We present a convolution neural network (CNN) based deep learning architecture for segmentation of objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Shan E Ahmed Raza , Linda Cheung , Muhammad Shaban , Simon Graham , David Epstein , Stella Pelengaris , Michael Khan , Nasir M. Rajpoot

Computer vision can be understood as the ability to perform inference on image data. Breakthroughs in computer vision technology are often marked by advances in inference techniques. This thesis proposes novel inference schemes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Varun Jampani

Deploying deep neural networks on mobile devices is increasingly important but remains challenging due to limited computing resources. On the other hand, their unified memory architecture and narrower gap between CPU and GPU performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Zhuojin Li , Marco Paolieri , Leana Golubchik

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown to be powerful classification tools in tasks that range from check reading to medical diagnosis, reaching close to human perception, and in some cases surpassing it. However, the problems to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Jose Marques , Gabriel Falcao , Luís A. Alexandre

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are revolutionizing machine learning, but they present significant computational challenges. Recently, many FPGA-based accelerators have been proposed to improve the performance and efficiency of CNNs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yongming Shen , Michael Ferdman , Peter Milder