Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The inference of large-sized images on Internet of Things (IoT) devices is commonly hindered by limited resources, while there are often stringent latency requirements for Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference. Currently, this problem is generally addressed by collaborative inference, where the large-sized image is partitioned into multiple tiles, and each tile is assigned to an IoT device for processing. However, since significant latency will be incurred due to the communication overhead caused by tile sharing, the existing collaborative inference strategy is inefficient for convolutional computation, which is indispensable for any DNN. To reduce it, we propose Non-Penetrative Tensor Partitioning (NPTP), a fine-grained tensor partitioning method that reduces the communication latency by minimizing the communication load of tiles shared, thereby reducing inference latency. We evaluate NPTP with four widely-adopted DNN models. Experimental results demonstrate that NPTP achieves a 1.44-1.68× inference speedup relative to CoEdge, a state-of-the-art (SOTA) collaborative inference algorithm.
Authors: Zhibang Liu, Chaonong Xu, Zhenjie Lv, Zhizhuo Liu, Suyu Zhao
Institution: China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Language: English
Topic: IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4408353553