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20162026
most citedReinforcement Learning through Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic on a GPU

28 citations · 40 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.RO2026

ROSA: A Robotics Foundation Model Serving System for Robot Factories

Wenqi Jiang, Jason Clemons, Rowland O'Flaherty +5

Robotics foundation models (RFMs) are making general-purpose robots increasingly practical for factory deployments. While RFM serving systems are central to this vision, existing s…

cs.LG2026

SOLAR: AI-Powered Speed-of-Light Performance Analysis

Qijing Huang, Sana Damani, Zhifan Ye +9

How fast could a deep-learning model run on target hardware, and how far is today's implementation from that limit? These questions are central to software, hardware, and algorithm…

cs.RO2026★ 1 cited

How Fast Can I Run My VLA? Demystifying VLA Inference Performance with VLA-Perf

Wenqi Jiang, Jason Clemons, Karu Sankaralingam +1

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently demonstrated impressive capabilities across various embodied AI tasks. While deploying VLA models on real-world robots imposes str…

cs.CL2025

HELIOS: Adaptive Model And Early-Exit Selection for Efficient LLM Inference Serving

Avinash Kumar, Shashank Nag, Jason Clemons +2

Early-Exit Large Language Models (EE-LLMs) enable high throughput inference by allowing tokens to exit early at intermediate layers. However, their throughput is limited by the com…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Vision Transformer Computation and Resilience for Dynamic Inference

Kavya Sreedhar, Jason Clemons, Rangharajan Venkatesan +2

State-of-the-art deep learning models for computer vision tasks are based on the transformer architecture and often deployed in real-time applications. In this scenario, the resour…

cs.LG2018★ 7 cited

Structurally Sparsified Backward Propagation for Faster Long Short-Term Memory Training

Maohua Zhu, Jason Clemons, Jeff Pool +3

Exploiting sparsity enables hardware systems to run neural networks faster and more energy-efficiently. However, most prior sparsity-centric optimization techniques only accelerate…

cs.LG2016★ 28 cited

Reinforcement Learning through Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic on a GPU

Mohammad Babaeizadeh, Iuri Frosio, Stephen Tyree +2

We introduce a hybrid CPU/GPU version of the Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic (A3C) algorithm, currently the state-of-the-art method in reinforcement learning for various gaming…

cs.DC2016★ 1 cited

vDNN: Virtualized Deep Neural Networks for Scalable, Memory-Efficient Neural Network Design

Minsoo Rhu, Natalia Gimelshein, Jason Clemons +2

The most widely used machine learning frameworks require users to carefully tune their memory usage so that the deep neural network (DNN) fits into the DRAM capacity of a GPU. This…