arXiv:2608. 06916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantized Neural Networks~(QNN) with low-bitwidth data have proven promising in efficient storage and computation on edge devices.
By Zijun Jiang, Yangdi Lyu
arXiv:2606. 06527v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Energy-efficient neural-network inference at the edge requires reducing arithmetic cost, memory traffic, computation energy, and storage overhead while maintaining acceptable accuracy.
By Ovishake Sen, Venkata Nithin Kamineni, Daniel Lobo, Swarup Bhunia, Rickard Ewetz, Baibhab Chatterjee
arXiv:2606. 31938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying Vision Transformer (ViT) models on edge platforms remains challenging due to their high computational demands and the architectural heterogeneity of modern hybrid ViT models, which incorporate both fully connected and convolutional layers.
By Hubert Dymarkowski, Xingjian Fu, Rappy Saha, Jude Haris, Jos\'e Cano
arXiv:2608. 11770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Edge-deployed vision systems in target recognition, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and drone domains require hierarchical inference pipelines where a detection model identifies objects of interest and downstream classifiers provide fine-grained attribute analysis.
By Vaishnav Raju
arXiv:2608. 00720v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mapping neural networks to FPGAs enables low-latency, energy-efficient inference, particularly for lookup table (LUT)-based models that eliminate multipliers and map directly to reconfigurable fabric.
By Oliver Cassidy, Marta Andronic, George A. Constantinides
arXiv:2311. 17815v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Given their increasing size and complexity, the need for efficient execution of deep neural networks has become increasingly pressing in the design of heterogeneous High-Performance Computing (HPC) and edge platforms, leading to a wide variety of proposals for specialized deep learning architectures and hardware accelerators.
By Serena Curzel, Fabrizio Ferrandi, Leandro Fiorin, Daniele Ielmini, Cristina Silvano, Francesco Conti, Luca Bompani, Luca Benini, Enrico Calore, Sebastiano Fabio Schifano, Cristian Zambelli, Maurizio Palesi, Giuseppe Ascia, Enrico Russo, Valeria Cardellini, Salvatore Filippone, Francesco Lo Presti, Stefania Perri
arXiv:2607. 18540v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic perception pipelines increasingly rely on large vision backbones deployed on SWaP-constrained edge platforms, making post-training quantization (PTQ) attractive for real-time inference.
By Hamidreza Yaghoubi Araghi, Parastoo Pilevar, Ming C. Lin
Modern deep neural networks achieve strong performance, but their scale makes them costly and slow, especially on resource-constrained edge devices. Pruning and quantization address this, but rely on manual, expert choices and on algorithms that are hard to apply across architectures.
arXiv:2608. 05499v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern deep neural networks achieve strong performance, but their scale makes them costly and slow, especially on resource-constrained edge devices.
By Sadegh Jafari, Mohiuddin Bilwal, Fan Zhou, Brian Gelder, Ali Jannesari
arXiv:2606. 29518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the widespread adoption of AI in various IoT scenarios such as smart sensing and processing, AI chips have become a common component at the edge.
By Yihan Wang, Huiru Yan, Luxin Zhang, Long Cheng, Weiwei Chen, Ying Wang, Lei Zhang, Cheng Liu, Huawei Li
arXiv:2605. 25054v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying deep neural networks on resource-constrained 6G edge devices demands aggressive compression with minimal accuracy loss.
By Ayush K. Varshney, Konstantinos Vandikas, \v{S}ar\=unas Girdzijauskas, Adam Orucu, Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan
arXiv:2507. 15958v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On-device skin lesion analysis is constrained by the compute and energy cost of conventional CNN inference and by the need for lightweight calibration under clinical data shift.
By Haitian Wang, Xia Cheng, Xinyu Wang, Fiona Wei, Zichen Geng