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MODI: Mobile Deep Inference Made Efficient by Edge Computing
USENIX Annual Technical Conference HotEdge Workshop 2018 (HotEdge’18) (2018)
  • Samuel S. Ogden, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Tian Guo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel mobile deep inference platform, MODI, that delivers good inference performance. MODI improves deep learning powered mobile applications performance with optimizations in three complementary aspects. First, MODI provides a number of models and dynamically selects the best one during runtime. Second, MODI extends the set of models each mobile application can use by storing high quality models at the edge servers. Third, MODI manages a centralized model repository and periodically updates models at edge locations, ensuring up-to-date models for mobile applications without incurring high network latency. Our evaluation demonstrates the feasibility of trading off inference accuracy for improved inference speed, as well as the acceptable performance of edge-based inference.
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Publication Date
2018
Citation Information
Samuel S. Ogden and Tian Guo. "MODI: Mobile Deep Inference Made Efficient by Edge Computing" USENIX Annual Technical Conference HotEdge Workshop 2018 (HotEdge’18) (2018)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sam-ogden/7/