ECC compresses DNNs for energy-constrained devices like UAVs and smartphones.
problem Energy-constrained deep neural networks in vision applications.
method ECC uses a bilinear regression model to estimate DNN energy consumption and optimizes compression to meet energy constraints.
result ECC achieves higher accuracy under the same or lower energy budget compared to state-of-the-art techniques.
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in highly energy-constrained environments such as autonomous drones and wearable devices while at the same time must operate in real-time. Therefore, reducing the energy consumption has become a major design consideration in DNN training. This paper proposes the fir…
Meta-learning improves drone trajectory design for dynamic wireless networks.
problem Designing optimal trajectories for energy-constrained drones in dynamic network environments.
method Proposes a meta-learning algorithm to adaptively tune a reinforcement learning solution for trajectory design.
result Meta-tuned RL yields faster convergence and improved communication performance compared to baseline algorithms.
In this paper, we analyze energy-harvesting adaptive diffusion networks for a distributed estimation problem. In order to wisely manage the available energy resources, we propose a scheme where a censoring algorithm is jointly applied over the diffusion strategy. An energy-aware variation of a diffusion algorithm is us…
Edge devices learn directly from personal data using spiking networks.
problem Processing personal data on edge devices with low latency and energy efficiency.
method Spiking Neural Networks for local training on edge devices.
result Spiking networks enable efficient local training on edge devices without scalability limitations.
The paper investigates how reducing memory supply voltage improves DNN accuracy under bit-cell faults.
problem Reducing energy consumption in deep neural networks by lowering memory supply voltage introduces bit-cell faults.
method The authors explore the robustness of DNN architectures to bit-cell faults and propose a regularizer to mitigate their effects.
result Operating the system in a faulty regime can save energy without significantly reducing accuracy.
Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), etc. have become widespread and can achieve high statistical performance. However their accuracy decreases significantly in energy-constrained mobile and embedded systems space, where all computations need to be c…
A new energy-efficient pruning method for federated learning.
problem Energy inefficiency in gradient sparsification for federated learning.
method Formalized energy-constrained projection problem and proposed Cost-Weighted Magnitude Pruning (CWMP).
result CWMP optimally balances performance and energy efficiency in federated learning.
Flexible framework improves communication efficiency across various systems.
problem Reducing communication between nodes in machine learning tasks.
method Adapts compression level to true gradient at each iteration, optimizing per-bit improvement.
result Automatic tuning strategies significantly increase communication efficiency.
Paper tackles intermittent learning for energy-constrained machine learning tasks.
problem Energy-constrained machine learning tasks on intermittently powered systems.
method Developed an algorithm and heuristics for efficient learning under energy constraints.
result Improves energy efficiency by up to 100% and reduces learning examples by up to 50%.
NeuroDiff improves neural network equivalence verification with fine-grained approximations.
problem Verifying the equivalence of compressed neural networks.
method Symbolic and fine-grained approximation technique for differential verification.
result NeuroDiff achieves up to 1000X speedup and 5X accuracy improvement.
As convolutional neural networks (CNNs) enable state-of-the-art computer vision applications, their high energy consumption has emerged as a key impediment to their deployment on embedded and mobile devices. Towards efficient image classification under hardware constraints, prior work has proposed adaptive CNNs, i.e., …
Poisson variational autoencoders introduce a metabolic cost term that penalizes high baseline activity.
problem Energy constraints in computation.
method Poisson variational autoencoders with a Kullback-Leibler divergence term proportional to firing rates.
result Poisson variational autoencoders introduce a metabolic cost term that penalizes high baseline activity.