The paper introduces FM4NILM, a prompt‑programmable foundation model that estimates the power usage of any requested appliance from whole‑home meter data, a natural‑language description, and optional activation examples. Trained on 645k sequences from seven public datasets, the lightweight transformer achieves competitive performance across twelve appliance requests, outperforming seven appliance‑specific baselines on key metrics such as event F1 and active‑window MAE. The model’s design allows new appliance coverage to be added via prompts and examples rather than building separate specialist networks.
By Xudong Wang, Jiacheng Cui, Junyu Xue, Tongxin Li, Guoming Tang
The paper introduces a new NILM approach that uses label‑preserving aggregate recomposition and prediction consistency to improve appliance‑level power estimation. By recomposing aggregate windows with only the residual background changed, the method preserves target appliance signals while exposing a new supervisory signal. Experiments on REDD, UK‑DALE, and REFIT show reduced mean absolute error for multiple appliances without adding inference‑time complexity.
By Jiangfeng Liu, Yanfang Fan
arXiv:2606. 23001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-device LLM inference is increasingly attractive for privacy-preserving, reliable, and cost-effective deployment, yet its energy and thermal costs remain a critical bottleneck.
By Bohua Zou, Nian Liu, Binqi Sun, Matteo Mascherin, Debayan Roy, Yutao Liu, Yu Peng, Ning Jia, Haibo Chen
arXiv:2608. 03589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a method for designing deep neural networks (DNNs) for intermittent, energy-autonomous, on-device learning on microcontroller units (MCUs).
By Jakob Schubert, Maximilian Kasper, Maximilian Linke, Benedict Herzog, Mark Deutel, Axel Plinge, Dominik Seuss, Christopher Mutschler
arXiv:2512. 22287v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Synthetic appliance data are essential for developing non-intrusive load monitoring algorithms and enabling privacy preserving energy research, yet the scarcity of labeled datasets remains a significant barrier.
By Zikun Guo, Adeyinka. P. Adedigba, Rammohan Mallipeddi
arXiv:2606. 24340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has been shifting toward batteryless, energy-harvesting architectures.
By Samer Nasser, Henrique Duarte Moura, Ritesh Kumar Singh, Maarten Weyn, Jeroen Famaey
arXiv:2606. 19964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tsetlin Machine (TM) is a logic-based machine learning approach that relies on simple bitwise operations and finite-state automata, which makes it attractive for edge AI deployments.
By Chanda Gupta, Sanidhya Bhatia, Shaurya Priyadarshi, Himani Panwar, Rishad Shafik, Sudip Roy
arXiv:2607. 28693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial NILM remains challenging because measurement noise and widespread concurrent machine operation reduce the generalization of models tuned on residential data.
By Hatem Haddad, Feres Jerbi, Issam Smaali
LoaDiff is a diffusion-based generative model that produces year-long, sub-hourly smart‑meter electricity consumption time series. It can be conditioned on static household attributes like appliance ownership and dynamic factors such as calendar dates and outdoor temperature. Evaluations on three residential datasets show that LoaDiff generates realistic, diverse load profiles, limits memorization, retains useful information for downstream tasks, and responds coherently to conditioning changes.
By Mariia Baranova, Adrien Petralia, Etienne Le Naour, Nathan Etourneau, Guillaume Hofmann, Themis Palpanas
arXiv:2607. 05475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) on mobile devices enhances privacy and reduces latency, but is severely bottlenecked by hardware inefficiency.
By Guanyu Cai, Ruiming Tian, Lang Yang, Zhouhong Ren, Jinliang Yuan, Lingkun Li, Jiliang Wang
arXiv:2605. 27599v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic AI workloads - where a single user goal triggers multi-step orchestration, tool calls, retries, and failure recovery - are being targeted for edge deployment, with NVIDIA, Dell, HP, ASUS, MSI, Acer, and Gigabyte all shipping GB10-based desktop AI systems in 2026.
By Deepak Panigrahy, Aakash Tyagi
The paper investigates the environmental impact of running large language models (LLMs) on mobile devices. It evaluates 18 different LLM configurations on two smartphones and a server, measuring energy per token, latency, accuracy, and battery-cycle consumption. Findings reveal that on-device inference is about three times less energy‑efficient than batched server inference, that energy consumption varies non‑monotonically with quantization bit‑width, and that most models are not on the Pareto front of accuracy and energy efficiency. The study concludes that local AI is not inherently more sustainable than cloud inference, with the majority of environmental impact stemming from device embodied carbon.
By \'Edouard Gu\'egain, Tristan Coignion