arXiv AI

Small Language Models for Smart Data Model Classification at the Edge: A Cost-Aware Hybrid Approach

The paper introduces a cost‑aware hybrid approach that uses small, open‑source language models to classify smart data models (SDMs) in Internet of Things (IoT) environments. It benchmarks general‑purpose, reasoning‑specialized, and code‑specialized models across domain‑specific datasets, highlighting their suitability for edge devices with limited resources. The study also compares these lightweight models to large language models and near‑zero‑cost baselines such as TF‑IDF and a lightweight sentence encoder to demonstrate practical performance gains.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

Farm-LightSeek: An Edge-centric Multimodal Agricultural IoT Data Analytics Framework with Lightweight LLMs

arXiv:2506. 03168v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Amid the challenges posed by global population growth and climate change, traditional agricultural Internet of Things (IoT) systems is currently undergoing a significant digital transformation to facilitate efficient big data processing.

By Dawen Jiang, Zhishu Shen, Qiushi Zheng, Tiehua Zhang, Wei Xiang, Jiong Jin
arXiv AI
Jul 7

STELLA: Efficient Sensor-to-LLM Translation for On-Device Human Activity Recognition

arXiv:2607. 03089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: HAR is increasingly expected to run continuously on edge devices, yet recent LLM-based methods remain hard to deploy: raw sensor prompts are long, cloud inference adds latency and privacy risk, and fine-tuned LLM pipelines turn general-purpose models into task-specific classifiers.

By Nirhoshan Sivaroopan, Albert Zomaya, Kanchana Thilakarathna
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

The Battery Price of edge AI: A study of the Environmental Impact of LLM Inference on Mobile Devices

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
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Diffusion Language Models for Mobile Edge Agentic AI: Foundations, Applications, and Challenges

Diffusion language models (DLMs) provide a non‑autoregressive approach for mobile edge agentic AI, refining tokens through iterative denoising instead of left‑to‑right decoding. They can update multiple uncertain tokens in parallel and use bidirectional context, allowing flexible quality‑latency trade‑offs and early exits that reduce response delay and communication overhead. The survey reviews DLM foundations, resource‑efficient architectures, training and inference acceleration, compression, deployment strategies, and discusses open issues such as long‑context management, split inference, and trustworthy execution.

By Chenqi Li, Minghui Min, Dusit Niyato, Wei Ni
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

OpenCompass: A Universal Evaluation Platform for Large Language Models

arXiv:2605. 19276v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In recent years, the field of artificial intelligence has undergone a paradigm shift from task-specific small-scale models to general-purpose large language models (LLMs).

By Maosong Cao, Kai Chen, Haodong Duan, Yixiao Fang, Zhiwei Fei, Tong Gao, Ge Jiaye, Mo Li, Hongwei Liu, Junnan Liu, Yuan Liu, Chengqi Lyu, Han Lyu, Ningsheng Ma, Zerun Ma, Yu Sun, Zhiyong Wu, Linchen Xiao, Zhuozhi Xiong, Jun Xu, Haochen Ye, Zhaohui Yu, Yike Yuan, Songyang Zhang, Yufeng Zhao, Fengzhe Zhou, Peiheng Zhou, Dongsheng Zhu, Lin Zhu, Jingming Zhuo
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Multi-Turn Reasoning LLMs for Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing

The paper introduces COMLLM, a generative framework that combines Group Relative Policy Optimization with a Look‑Ahead Collaborative Simulation to enable multi‑turn reasoning for task offloading in Mobile Edge Computing. By performing multi‑step Monte Carlo rollouts that jointly model server queue dynamics, COMLLM incorporates long‑term system evolution into its reward design, achieving near‑optimal latency and improved load‑balancing fairness. The framework demonstrates zero‑shot scalability to larger network topologies, outperforming supervised fine‑tuning, deep reinforcement learning, and heuristic baselines without requiring retraining.

By Ning Yang, Chuangxin Cheng, Haijun Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 16

CogGuard: Cognitive and Operational Profiling for Proactive Warning in Edge Intelligent Services

arXiv:2606. 15199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proactive warning is an important capability for edge intelligent services, where the system predicts whether a subject will successfully complete an incoming task under strict latency and privacy constraints.

By Zhi Yao, Weihao Chen, Zhiqing Tang, Hanshuai Cui, Qianli Ma, Weijia Jia, Wei Zhao