FeatureFormer is a neural performance predictor that adds explicit node-wise encodings of FLOPs, parameter counts, and memory proxies to a gated graph attention architecture. It is designed to improve latency and energy prediction for neural networks on edge devices, addressing the limitation of existing GNN and transformer predictors that largely ignore node-level computational cost. The authors also introduce NNEQ, a large-scale energy consumption dataset, and show through extensive experiments that FeatureFormer achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance across both metrics, including challenging out‑of‑domain settings, while the encoding can broadly enhance existing predictors with negligible overhead.
By Matthew Grenier, William Hammer, Andrew Heuer, Nikhil Krishna, Yi Wang, Ramtin Zand
arXiv:2603. 15106v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Enabling efficient deep neural network (DNN) inference on edge devices with different hardware constraints is a challenging task that typically requires DNN architectures to be specialized for each device separately.
By Mark Deutel, Simon Geis, Axel Plinge
arXiv:2607. 01984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Newer lightweight convolutional neural networks are often presented as improving predictive performance and deployment efficiency, but such claims require controlled evaluation.
By Tasnim Shahriar
arXiv:2607. 06922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning applications have been widely adopted on edge devices, to mitigate the privacy and latency issues of accessing cloud servers.
By Shuo Huai, Di Liu, Hao Kong, Weichen Liu, Ravi Subramaniam, Christian Makaya, Qian Lin
arXiv:2606. 15004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying neural networks on low-power microcontrollers (MCUs) requires selecting model architectures under tight memory, latency, and energy constraints.
By Joseph Q. Zales, Pragya Sharma, Mani Srivastava
arXiv:2601.15127v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Deploying federated learning across heterogeneous IoT device fleets requires tailored neural network architectures for each device class, yet...
By Bostan Khan, Masoud Daneshtalab
arXiv:2505. 03303v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Lightweight convolutional neural networks are often compared using results obtained with different training recipes, input settings, and pretrained checkpoints.
By Tasnim Shahriar
LESS (Lightweight Evolutionary Supernet Search) is a data‑driven NAS method that uses a brief hard‑path warm‑up and CMA‑ES to evaluate candidate architectures as decoded hard genotypes after six supernet updates. On NAS‑Bench‑201, LESS attains 93.189 % CIFAR‑10 accuracy in just 409.1 seconds, nearly matching FairNAS while using only about 1/24 of its search time. The approach also transfers well to CIFAR‑100, ImageNet16‑120, and the larger DARTS space, achieving high accuracies with searches completed in roughly 43.5 minutes on a single GPU.
By Aviral Gandhi, Jinglue Xu, Jialong Li, Hitoshi Iba
arXiv:2505. 03303v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Lightweight convolutional neural networks are often compared using results obtained with different training recipes, input settings, and pretrained checkpoints.
By Tasnim Shahriar
arXiv:2607. 15745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Common practice when training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is to use randomly shuffled mini-batches.
By Anxhelo Shehu, Enes Stastoli, Arben Cela
arXiv:2607. 07953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-attention lets each token retrieve information from the full context, but its quadratic cost in sequence length limits training and inference at long context.
By Tommaso Cerruti, Tim Rieder, George Rowlands, Lingfeng Jin, Imanol Schlag
arXiv:2608. 10506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate pre-deployment estimation of CNN inference cost--energy, latency, and peak memory--is increasingly critical as models are deployed on resource-constrained GPU platforms.
By Linh Nguyen, Zhixin Pan