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Revisiting Outage for Edge Inference Systems

arXiv:2504. 03686v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: One of the key missions of sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks is to deploy large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) models at the network edge to provide remote-inference services for edge devices.

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 Computer Vision
Sep 14

Adaptive AI: Energy Efficient Multi-exit TinyML on Intelligent Vision Systems at the Edge

The paper presents a novel multi‑exit computational scheme for TinyML on an ultra‑low‑power GAP9 SoC, adding confidence‑based gating points to a MobileNetV2 CNN for ImageNet‑100. By allowing inference to stop early, the approach cuts average MAC operations by 41 % (from 313 MMAC to 185 MMAC), reduces inference time by 29 % (49 ms to 35 ms), and saves 24 % in energy (2.1 mJ to 1.6 mJ per frame) with only a ~1 % drop in accuracy. Compared to a state‑of‑the‑art adaptive CNN on the same hardware, the method more than doubles computational efficiency, raising MAC/cycle from 8.1 to 17.2.

By Luca Crupi, Lorenzo Lamberti, Alessandro Giusti, Daniele Palossi
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
Aug 14

Heterogeneity-Aware Belief Synchronization for Semantic Communication in AI-Native 6G Networks

arXiv:2608. 13394v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 6G networks will not be serving as communication infrastructures only; rather, they are expected to evolve into intelligent systems, where thousands of autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents are interconnected.

By Muhammad Hannan Akram, Muhammad Abubakar Rashid, Wassi Haider Kabir, Haejoon Jung, Kapal Dev, Syed Ali Hassan
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 Machine Learning
Sep 11

EMMI: Edge Multi-Modal Intelligence for Communication-Efficient MLLM Inference via Fused Representation Compression

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.

By Motahare Mounesan, Irfan Khan
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 6

BALANCE: Hybrid Autoregressive-Speculative LLM Inference in Wireless Edge Networks

Edge inference is a promising paradigm to provide large language model (LLM) inference services in next-generation mobile networks. LLM inference mainly relies on two approaches: Autoregressive decoding (AD) generates output tokens sequentially, resulting in long latency; Speculative decoding (SD) accelerates inference by using a small language model (SLM) to generate multiple draft tokens for LLM verification, but incurs extra memory costs.