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most citedRapid Deployment of DNNs for Edge Computing via Structured Pruning at Initialization

5 citations · 10 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.AI2026

AgBench: Agentic AI Benchmarks for Personal AI Devices

Yizhou Han, Di Wu, Dhananjay Saikumar +1

Agentic AI systems increasingly rely on cloud-hosted large language models for planning, tool use, and iterative execution, raising concerns about API cost and data exposure. Advan…

cs.LG2026

DriftGuard: Mitigating Asynchronous Data Drift in Federated Learning

Yizhou Han, Di Wu, Blesson Varghese

In real-world Federated Learning (FL) deployments, data distributions on devices that participate in training evolve over time. This leads to asynchronous data drift, where differe…

cs.DC2026

Multi-DNN Inference of Sparse Models on Edge SoCs

Jiawei Luo, Di Wu, Simon Dobson +1

Modern edge applications increasingly require multi-DNN inference systems to execute tasks on heterogeneous processors, gaining performance from both concurrent execution and from…

cs.LG2025

Data-Free Pruning of Self-Attention Layers in LLMs

Dhananjay Saikumar, Blesson Varghese

Many self-attention sublayers in large language models (LLMs) can be removed with little to no loss. We attribute this to the Attention Suppression Hypothesis: during pre-training,…

cs.DC2025

Ampere: Communication-Efficient and High-Accuracy Split Federated Learning

Zihan Zhang, Leon Wong, Blesson Varghese

A Federated Learning (FL) system collaboratively trains neural networks across devices and a server but is limited by significant on-device computation costs. Split Federated Learn…

cs.DC2025

FedOptima: Optimizing Resource Utilization in Federated Learning

Zihan Zhang, Leon Wong, Blesson Varghese

Federated learning (FL) systems facilitate distributed machine learning across a server and multiple devices. However, FL systems have low resource utilization on servers and devic…

cs.LG2025★ 5 cited

Mosaic: Composite Projection Pruning for Resource-efficient LLMs

Bailey J. Eccles, Leon Wong, Blesson Varghese

Extensive compute and memory requirements limit the deployment of large language models (LLMs) on any hardware. Compression methods, such as pruning, can reduce model size, which i…

cs.LG2025

Signal Collapse in One-Shot Pruning: When Sparse Models Fail to Distinguish Neural Representations

Dhananjay Saikumar, Blesson Varghese

Neural network pruning is essential for reducing model complexity to enable deployment on resource constrained hardware. While performance loss of pruned networks is often attribut…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Rapid Deployment of DNNs for Edge Computing via Structured Pruning at Initialization

Bailey J. Eccles, Leon Wong, Blesson Varghese

Edge machine learning (ML) enables localized processing of data on devices and is underpinned by deep neural networks (DNNs). However, DNNs cannot be easily run on devices due to t…

cs.LG2024

DRIVE: Dual Gradient-Based Rapid Iterative Pruning

Dhananjay Saikumar, Blesson Varghese

Modern deep neural networks (DNNs) consist of millions of parameters, necessitating high-performance computing during training and inference. Pruning is one solution that significa…

cs.LG2024

NeuroFlux: Memory-Efficient CNN Training Using Adaptive Local Learning

Dhananjay Saikumar, Blesson Varghese

Efficient on-device Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) training in resource-constrained mobile and edge environments is an open challenge. Backpropagation is the standard approach…