arXiv AI

ENAS: An Efficient Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search Framework for TinyML on Resource-Constrained Microcontrollers

ENAS is a hardware‑aware neural architecture search framework tailored for TinyML on microcontrollers. It uses a static feasibility check, a cell‑based search space with various block types and skip connections, and a three‑stage hybrid search strategy (random → top‑K → mutation) with cross‑run caching. The framework runs efficiently without GPUs, achieving significant search‑time speedups and competitive accuracy on Visual Wake Words and Melanoma Cancer benchmarks across a range of microcontrollers.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

SNAC-Pack 2.0: Scaled-Out Surrogate Neural Architecture Codesign

arXiv:2605. 16138v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural architecture search (NAS) is a powerful approach for automating model design, but existing methods often optimize for accuracy alone or rely on proxy metrics such as bit operations (BOPs) that correlate poorly with hardware cost.

By Jason Weitz, Dmitri Demler, Benjamin Hawks, Aaron Wang, Nhan Tran, Javier Duarte
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Surrogate Neural Architecture Codesign Package (SNAC-Pack)

arXiv:2605. 16138v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural architecture search (NAS) is a powerful approach for automating model design, but existing methods often optimize for accuracy alone or rely on proxy metrics such as bit operations (BOPs) that correlate poorly with hardware cost.

By Jason Weitz, Dmitri Demler, Benjamin Hawks, Aaron Wang, Nhan Tran, Javier Duarte
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Gradient Under Microscope: Benchmarking Resource Utilization of Memory-Efficient Gradient Computation Methods

arXiv:2608. 08961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI training's rising resource intensity is straining electricity supplies and carbon budgets, motivating systematic study of memory-efficient training on constrained hardware.

By Sarthak Mahapatra, Zihan Zhou, Khatoon Khedri, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Reza Rawassizadeh
arXiv AI
Jun 30

KernelSight-LM: A Kernel-Level LLM Inference Simulator

arXiv:2606. 28565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) move into production serving, practitioners must rapidly evaluate inference performance across diverse hardware, models, and serving parameters to meet cost and latency targets.

By Xiteng Yao, Taeho Kim, Hengzhi Pei, Xinle Liu, Kyle Ulrich, Leonard Lausen, Ashish Khetan, Xiang Song, George Karypis, Martin Herbordt
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Beyond Static RAG: An Adaptive, Tri-Metric Routing Framework for Efficient Long-Context Inference on Commodity GPUs

The paper introduces the Tri‑Metric Router, a deterministic, training‑free policy that chooses among Raw, Neural, and Lexical pipelines for retrieval‑augmented generation on commodity GPUs. It uses three CPU‑side signals—spatial complexity, syntactic density, and type‑token ratio—to balance VRAM headroom and latency, calibrated on LongBench qasper. The method eliminates out‑of‑memory failures and improves alignment and F1 scores compared to always‑on lexical compression without extra VRAM or training costs.

By Saipraveen Vabbilisetty, Ajay Kumar Boddepalli, Deep Narayan Mishra, Shashank Kapadia, Haoan Wang, Anupriya Sharma
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Efficient Block-Layer Parallel Inference for Vision-Language-Action on Hybrid Architectures

arXiv:2608. 14586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are becoming a promising paradigm for autonomous driving, but their deployment on existing vehicle platforms remains difficult because they introduce both high inference latency and strong GPU-side resource pressure.

By Haibo HU, Lianming Huang, Qiao Li, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

AdaDINO: Context-Adaptive DINO-Distilled Vision Foundation Models for Efficient Open-Vocabulary Edge Inference

arXiv:2604. 15622v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Always-on contextual AI runs language-aligned vision foundation models (VFMs) on edge devices, where the on-device model is the dominant continuous compute cost under strict latency and power limits.

By Yiwei Zhao, Yi Zheng, Huapeng Su, Jieyu Lin, Stefano Ambrogio, Cijo Jose, Michael Ramamonjisoa, Patrick Labatut, Barbara De Salvo, Chiao Liu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Ziyun Li