Umar Ibrahim Minhas

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2 Papers

9.2LGDec 30, 2021
Resource-Efficient Deep Learning: A Survey on Model-, Arithmetic-, and Implementation-Level Techniques

JunKyu Lee, Lev Mukhanov, Amir Sabbagh Molahosseini et al.

Deep learning is pervasive in our daily life, including self-driving cars, virtual assistants, social network services, healthcare services, face recognition, etc. However, deep neural networks demand substantial compute resources during training and inference. The machine learning community has mainly focused on model-level optimizations such as architectural compression of deep learning models, while the system community has focused on implementation-level optimization. In between, various arithmetic-level optimization techniques have been proposed in the arithmetic community. This article provides a survey on resource-efficient deep learning techniques in terms of model-, arithmetic-, and implementation-level techniques and identifies the research gaps for resource-efficient deep learning techniques across the three different level techniques. Our survey clarifies the influence from higher to lower-level techniques based on our resource-efficiency metric definition and discusses the future trend for resource-efficient deep learning research.

1.2PFAug 29, 2021
Leveraging Transprecision Computing for Machine Vision Applications at the Edge

Umar Ibrahim Minhas, Lev Mukhanov, Georgios Karakonstantis et al.

Machine vision tasks present challenges for resource constrained edge devices, particularly as they execute multiple tasks with variable workloads. A robust approach that can dynamically adapt in runtime while maintaining the maximum quality of service (QoS) within resource constraints, is needed. The paper presents a lightweight approach that monitors the runtime workload constraint and leverages accuracy-throughput trade-off. Optimisation techniques are included which find the configurations for each task for optimal accuracy, energy and memory and manages transparent switching between configurations. For an accuracy drop of 1%, we show a 1.6x higher achieved frame processing rate with further improvements possible at lower accuracy.