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20192026
most citedSPINN: Synergistic Progressive Inference of Neural Networks over Device and Cloud

296 citations · 657 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.LG2026

MoSE: Mixture of Slimmable Experts for Efficient and Adaptive Language Models

Nurbek Tastan, Stefanos Laskaridis, Karthik Nandakumar +1

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models scale large language models efficiently by sparsely activating experts, but once an expert is selected, it is executed fully. Hence, the trade-off b…

cs.LG2026

FlexRank: Nested Low-Rank Knowledge Decomposition for Adaptive Model Deployment

Riccardo Zaccone, Stefanos Laskaridis, Marco Ciccone +1

The growing scale of deep neural networks, encompassing large language models (LLMs) and vision transformers (ViTs), has made training from scratch prohibitively expensive and depl…

cs.LG2025

LoFT: Low-Rank Adaptation That Behaves Like Full Fine-Tuning

Nurbek Tastan, Stefanos Laskaridis, Martin Takac +2

Large pre-trained models are commonly adapted to downstream tasks using parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), which injects small trainable lo…

cs.CR2025

NoEsis: Differentially Private Knowledge Transfer in Modular LLM Adaptation

Rob Romijnders, Stefanos Laskaridis, Ali Shahin Shamsabadi +1

Large Language Models (LLM) are typically trained on vast amounts of data from various sources. Even when designed modularly (e.g., Mixture-of-Experts), LLMs can leak privacy on th…

cs.LG2024

Recurrent Early Exits for Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Clients

Royson Lee, Javier Fernandez-Marques, Shell Xu Hu +6

Federated learning (FL) has enabled distributed learning of a model across multiple clients in a privacy-preserving manner. One of the main challenges of FL is to accommodate clien…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

A collection of the accepted papers for the Human-Centric Representation Learning workshop at AAAI 2024

Dimitris Spathis, Aaqib Saeed, Ali Etemad +6

This non-archival index is not complete, as some accepted papers chose to opt-out of inclusion. The list of all accepted papers is available on the workshop website.

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

MELTing point: Mobile Evaluation of Language Transformers

Stefanos Laskaridis, Kleomenis Katevas, Lorenzo Minto +1

Transformers have revolutionized the machine learning landscape, gradually making their way into everyday tasks and equipping our computers with "sparks of intelligence". However,…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Maestro: Uncovering Low-Rank Structures via Trainable Decomposition

Samuel Horvath, Stefanos Laskaridis, Shashank Rajput +1

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been a large driver for AI breakthroughs in recent years. However, these models have been getting increasingly large as they become more accurate a…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Federated Learning for Inference at Anytime and Anywhere

Zicheng Liu, Da Li, Javier Fernandez-Marques +6

Federated learning has been predominantly concerned with collaborative training of deep networks from scratch, and especially the many challenges that arise, such as communication…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

The Future of Consumer Edge-AI Computing

Stefanos Laskaridis, Stylianos I. Venieris, Alexandros Kouris +2

In the last decade, Deep Learning has rapidly infiltrated the consumer end, mainly thanks to hardware acceleration across devices. However, as we look towards the future, it is evi…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Fluid Batching: Exit-Aware Preemptive Serving of Early-Exit Neural Networks on Edge NPUs

Alexandros Kouris, Stylianos I. Venieris, Stefanos Laskaridis +1

With deep neural networks (DNNs) emerging as the backbone in a multitude of computer vision tasks, their adoption in real-world applications broadens continuously. Given the abunda…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

FedorAS: Federated Architecture Search under system heterogeneity

Lukasz Dudziak, Stefanos Laskaridis, Javier Fernandez-Marques

Federated learning (FL) has recently gained considerable attention due to its ability to learn on decentralised data while preserving client privacy. However, it also poses additio…

cs.LG2021★ 5 cited

Smart at what cost? Characterising Mobile Deep Neural Networks in the wild

Mario Almeida, Stefanos Laskaridis, Abhinav Mehrotra +3

With smartphones' omnipresence in people's pockets, Machine Learning (ML) on mobile is gaining traction as devices become more powerful. With applications ranging from visual filte…

cs.LG2021★ 106 cited

Adaptive Inference through Early-Exit Networks: Design, Challenges and Directions

Stefanos Laskaridis, Alexandros Kouris, Nicholas D. Lane

DNNs are becoming less and less over-parametrised due to recent advances in efficient model design, through careful hand-crafted or NAS-based methods. Relying on the fact that not…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Multi-Exit Semantic Segmentation Networks

Alexandros Kouris, Stylianos I. Venieris, Stefanos Laskaridis +1

Semantic segmentation arises as the backbone of many vision systems, spanning from self-driving cars and robot navigation to augmented reality and teleconferencing. Frequently oper…

cs.DC2021★ 37 cited

DynO: Dynamic Onloading of Deep Neural Networks from Cloud to Device

Mario Almeida, Stefanos Laskaridis, Stylianos I. Venieris +2

Recently, there has been an explosive growth of mobile and embedded applications using convolutional neural networks(CNNs). To alleviate their excessive computational demands, deve…

cs.LG2021★ 22 cited

It's always personal: Using Early Exits for Efficient On-Device CNN Personalisation

Ilias Leontiadis, Stefanos Laskaridis, Stylianos I. Venieris +1

On-device machine learning is becoming a reality thanks to the availability of powerful hardware and model compression techniques. Typically, these models are pretrained on large G…

cs.LG2021★ 64 cited

FjORD: Fair and Accurate Federated Learning under heterogeneous targets with Ordered Dropout

Samuel Horvath, Stefanos Laskaridis, Mario Almeida +3

Federated Learning (FL) has been gaining significant traction across different ML tasks, ranging from vision to keyboard predictions. In large-scale deployments, client heterogenei…

cs.LG2020★ 296 cited

SPINN: Synergistic Progressive Inference of Neural Networks over Device and Cloud

Stefanos Laskaridis, Stylianos I. Venieris, Mario Almeida +2

Despite the soaring use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in mobile applications, uniformly sustaining high-performance inference on mobile has been elusive due to the excess…

cs.CV2020★ 31 cited

HAPI: Hardware-Aware Progressive Inference

Stefanos Laskaridis, Stylianos I. Venieris, Hyeji Kim +1

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently become the state-of-the-art in a diversity of AI tasks. Despite their popularity, CNN inference still comes at a high computation…

cs.LG2019

ShrinkML: End-to-End ASR Model Compression Using Reinforcement Learning

Łukasz Dudziak, Mohamed S. Abdelfattah, Ravichander Vipperla +2

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are increasingly large and complex to achieve the best possible accuracy. In this paper, we build an AutoML system that uses re…

cs.LG2019★ 75 cited

EmBench: Quantifying Performance Variations of Deep Neural Networks across Modern Commodity Devices

Mario Almeida, Stefanos Laskaridis, Ilias Leontiadis +2

In recent years, advances in deep learning have resulted in unprecedented leaps in diverse tasks spanning from speech and object recognition to context awareness and health monitor…