arXiv:2604. 26508v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on edge devices remains challenging due to their substantial computational and memory demands, which exceed the capabilities of resource-constrained embedded platforms.
arXiv:2512. 16349v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a collaborative edge-to-server inference framework for vision-language models (VLMs) that reduces communication cost while maintaining inference accuracy.
SemanticXR is a device‑cloud system that enables real‑time, open‑vocabulary semantic mapping and querying for XR applications while respecting power, bandwidth, and memory limits. By treating semantically identifiable objects as first‑class units, the system coordinates communication, execution, and memory across device and server, achieving a 2.2× faster server‑side mapping latency and keeping upstream bandwidth below 2.5 Mbps. On the device, an object‑level sparse local map with incremental updates delivers sub‑100 ms query latency for up to 10,000 objects, supports tens of thousands of objects within a 500 MB footprint, and adds only about 2 % to idle power.
The paper introduces CloudEdgeVLA, a cloud‑edge policy for Vision‑Language‑Action models that treats temporal misalignment as a representation‑learning problem. It encodes delayed observations into slowly varying task features on the cloud while a lightweight edge head fuses the latest cloud feature with current local vision. Experiments on four LIBERO suites show that CloudEdgeVLA retains 63.8–78.0% success under a 40‑step delay window, far outperforming VLASH and single‑path baselines.
The paper introduces a token‑oriented semantic communication framework that transmits only task‑relevant image latents instead of full token embeddings, reducing communication cost and improving interoperability. It leverages a spatial alignment between vision transformer patch tokens and learned image compression latents, enabling token‑level relevance estimation and selective transmission. Experiments on ImageNet demonstrate a superior rate–accuracy trade‑off compared to existing semantic communication methods and hand‑crafted codecs.
arXiv:2608.28726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The remarkable performance of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) comes at the cost of substantial computational overhead, posing significant chal...
arXiv:2607. 14489v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Edge computing brings unique challenges as the resources on the edge are highly diverse in capabilities and capacities, and highly distributed across many users and the physical world.
Edge computing brings unique challenges as the resources on the edge are highly diverse in capabilities and capacities, and highly distributed across many users and the physical world. Existing distributed computing frameworks cannot adequately handle this level of heterogeneity and distribution.
The paper introduces EMMI, a framework that enables communication‑efficient inference of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on edge devices. EMMI encodes each sensor modality separately, fuses the representations, and compresses them into a compact latent vector that is transmitted to a server for high‑capacity reasoning. Experiments on a multimodal benchmark show that EMMI can cut the communication payload by 32× while keeping accuracy comparable, achieving up to a 3.4× reduction in end‑to‑end inference latency under bandwidth‑constrained conditions.
arXiv:2609.08307v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as backends for intelligent web services, but serving them across the edge continuum requires bala...
arXiv:2609.10714v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The ambitious requirements of sixth-generation (6G) networks are driving communication systems from reliable bit delivery toward meaning-aware and ta...
The paper introduces TopoCompress, a token compression framework designed for distributed edge Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) inference. It jointly optimizes token compression, expert deployment, GPU-CPU residency, and routing to reduce cross-server communication and resource usage. The method uses a two-timescale alternating optimization, with an online loop compressing low-importance tokens and an offline loop updating expert placement based on accumulated traffic.
arXiv:2607. 13093v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-device LLM inference faces a trilemma of response latency, limited hardware resources and user privacy.