arXiv Machine Learning

Node-wise Feature Encoding for Neural Performance Prediction

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.

arXiv Computer Vision
1d ago

GaLe: memory-efficient Global Approximate and Local Exact features

GaLe is a memory‑efficient technique that allows pretrained neural networks to run on resource‑constrained devices without retraining. It splits feature maps into a local exact component that keeps fine details and a global approximate component that preserves long‑range dependencies, enabling global operations and attention mechanisms typical of hybrid CNN‑transformer models. On ImageNet, GaLe matches exact‑inference accuracy while delivering up to 65% speedup and 90% RAM reduction on a Cortex‑M33, and it works across classification, detection, and generation tasks.

By Alberto Ancilotto, Elisabetta Farella
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

HiFi-LLP: High-Fidelity, Low-Cost Latency Predictors with Confidence for Robust HW-NAS

arXiv:2607. 11746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With deep neural networks (DNNs) increasingly deployed on edge devices, hardware (HW)-aware optimization techniques--such as HW-aware compression and HW-aware neural architecture search (HW-NAS)--have become essential.

By Shambhavi Balamuthu Sampath, Behzad Shomali, Nael Fasfous, Moritz Thoma, Judeson Anthony Fernando, Lukas Frickenstein, Pierpaolo Mori, Manoj Rohit Vemparala, Alexander Frickenstein, Walter Stechele
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 11

CARB: A Characterization-Guided Framework for CNN Inference Cost Prediction and Deployment Screening

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. Existing approaches rely on FLOPs, latency measurements, or single-device profiling as energy proxies, overlooking the non-linear interactions between architectural design and hardware load.

arXiv AI
Jun 29

WattLayer: Get Layers Right to Estimate Inference Energy of Neural Networks

arXiv:2606. 27841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led to increasing concerns about energy consumption, yet there is a lack of standardized methodologies to accurately estimate AI inference energy consumption, particularly across various tasks and architectures.

By Adrien Sardi, Marie-Line Alberi Morel, Sara Alouf, Fr\'ed\'eric Giroire, Joanna Moulierac
arXiv AI
Jul 28

OrchNAS: Orchestrated Neural Architecture Search Service for Personalised Federated Edge Intelligence

arXiv:2607. 22805v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose OrchNAS, an energy-aware, personalised, federated edge intelligence framework that leverages a Neural Architecture Search Service to automatically design service-adaptive models for heterogeneous edge environments.

By Keya Patel, Sajib Mistry, Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah, Aneesh Krishna
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Harvesting AI Computation at the Edge via Generic Approximation

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 24

OrchNAS: Orchestrated Neural Architecture Search Service for Personalised Federated Edge Intelligence

We propose OrchNAS, an energy-aware, personalised, federated edge intelligence framework that leverages a Neural Architecture Search Service to automatically design service-adaptive models for heterogeneous edge environments. The framework orchestrates the architecture search process on a server-side NAS service, enabling edge services to derive personalised architectures under device-level energy, computation, and memory constraints.

arXiv AI
Jul 21

Attentions Under the Microscope: A Comparative Study of Resource Utilization for Variants of Self-Attention

arXiv:2507. 07247v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) and visual language models (VLMs) grow in scale and application, attention mechanisms have become a central computational bottleneck due to their high memory and time complexity.

By Zhengyu Tian, Anantha Padmanaban Krishna Kumar, Hemant Krishnakumar, Reza Rawassizadeh