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most citedEmpirical Guidelines for Deploying LLMs onto Resource-constrained Edge Devices

3 citations · 5 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.AR2026

Interface-Aware KV Cache Quantization for Dense On-Chip NVM in Long-Context LLM Decoding

Jiahao Zheng, Yifan Qin, Xiaobo Sharon Hu +1

The key-value (KV) cache is the dominant memory bottleneck in long-context large language model (LLM) decoding: every step reads it entirely, so decoding is memory-bandwidth bound.…

cs.AR2026

Probabilistic Memory for Trustworthy Edge Intelligence

Likai Pei, Jiahao Zheng, Xueji Zhao +9

Probabilistic computation plays an important role in trustworthy edge intelligence to quantify uncertainty, enhance robustness, reconstruct data, and protect privacy, but its adopt…

cs.LG2026

When Small Variations Become Big Failures: Reliability Challenges in Compute-in-Memory Neural Accelerators

Yifan Qin, Jiahao Zheng, Zheyu Yan +3

Compute-in-memory (CiM) architectures promise significant improvements in energy efficiency and throughput for deep neural network acceleration by alleviating the von Neumann bottl…

cs.RO2025

Driving Through Uncertainty: Risk-Averse Control with LLM Commonsense for Autonomous Driving under Perception Deficits

Yuting Hu, Chenhui Xu, Ruiyang Qin +4

Partial perception deficits can compromise autonomous vehicle safety by disrupting environmental understanding. Existing protocols typically default to entirely risk-avoidant actio…

cs.LG2024

NVCiM-PT: An NVCiM-assisted Prompt Tuning Framework for Edge LLMs

Ruiyang Qin, Pengyu Ren, Zheyu Yan +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed on edge devices, known as edge LLMs, need to continuously fine-tune their model parameters from user-generated data under limited resource con…

cs.SD2024

Tiny-Align: Bridging Automatic Speech Recognition and Large Language Model on the Edge

Ruiyang Qin, Dancheng Liu, Gelei Xu +7

The combination of Large Language Models (LLM) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), when deployed on edge devices (called edge ASR-LLM), can serve as a powerful personalized ass…

cs.AR2024★ 1 cited

A 10.60 W 150 GOPS Mixed-Bit-Width Sparse CNN Accelerator for Life-Threatening Ventricular Arrhythmia Detection

Yifan Qin, Zhenge Jia, Zheyu Yan +9

This paper proposes an ultra-low power, mixed-bit-width sparse convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerator to accelerate ventricular arrhythmia (VA) detection. The chip achieves…

eess.IV2024

Rethinking Medical Anomaly Detection in Brain MRI: An Image Quality Assessment Perspective

Zixuan Pan, Jun Xia, Zheyu Yan +7

Reconstruction-based methods, particularly those leveraging autoencoders, have been widely adopted for anomaly detection task in brain MRI. Unlike most existing works try to improv…

cs.CL2024

PI-Whisper: Designing an Adaptive and Incremental Automatic Speech Recognition System for Edge Devices

Amir Nassereldine, Dancheng Liu, Chenhui Xu +3

Edge-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies are increasingly prevalent in the development of intelligent and personalized assistants. However, resource-constrained A…

cs.AR2024

TSB: Tiny Shared Block for Efficient DNN Deployment on NVCIM Accelerators

Yifan Qin, Zheyu Yan, Zixuan Pan +3

Compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerators using non-volatile memory (NVM) devices offer promising solutions for energy-efficient and low-latency Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference exec…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Empirical Guidelines for Deploying LLMs onto Resource-constrained Edge Devices

Ruiyang Qin, Dancheng Liu, Chenhui Xu +9

The scaling laws have become the de facto guidelines for designing large language models (LLMs), but they were studied under the assumption of unlimited computing resources for bot…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Robust Implementation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Edge-based Computing-in-Memory Architectures

Ruiyang Qin, Zheyu Yan, Dewen Zeng +8

Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed on edge devices learn through fine-tuning and updating a certain portion of their parameters. Although such learning methods can be optimized…

cs.LG2024

FL-NAS: Towards Fairness of NAS for Resource Constrained Devices via Large Language Models

Ruiyang Qin, Yuting Hu, Zheyu Yan +3

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become the de fecto tools in the industry in automating the design of deep neural networks for various applications, especially those driven by…

cs.AR2023

U-SWIM: Universal Selective Write-Verify for Computing-in-Memory Neural Accelerators

Zheyu Yan, Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Yiyu Shi

Architectures that incorporate Computing-in-Memory (CiM) using emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) devices have become strong contenders for deep neural network (DNN) acceleration d…

cs.LG2023

Compute-in-Memory based Neural Network Accelerators for Safety-Critical Systems: Worst-Case Scenarios and Protections

Zheyu Yan, Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Yiyu Shi

Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM)-based Computing-in-Memory (CiM) architectures show substantial promise in accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs) due to their exceptional energ…