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A Confidence-Constrained Cloud-Edge Collaborative Framework for Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis

Networking and Internet Architecture 2025-10-27 v1

Abstract

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis systems in school environments increasingly relies on IoT-enabled cameras, yet pure cloud processing raises privacy and latency concerns while pure edge inference suffers from limited accuracy. We propose Confidence-Constrained Cloud-Edge Knowledge Distillation (C3EKD), a hierarchical framework that performs most inference at the edge and selectively uploads only low-confidence samples to the cloud. The cloud produces temperature-scaled soft labels and distils them back to edge models via a global loss aggregated across participating schools, improving generalization without centralizing raw data. On two public ASD facial-image datasets, the proposed framework achieves a superior accuracy of 87.4\%, demonstrating its potential for scalable deployment in real-world applications.

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@article{arxiv.2510.21130,
  title  = {A Confidence-Constrained Cloud-Edge Collaborative Framework for Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis},
  author = {Qi Deng and Yinghao Zhang and Yalin Liu and Bishenghui Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.21130},
  year   = {2025}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures

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