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ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS
Volume 55, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/3527155
Keywords
Split computing; edge computing; early exit; neural networks; deep learning
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Mobile devices increasingly rely on deep neural networks for complex inference tasks. Split computing (SC) and early exiting (EE) approaches have been proposed to reduce computational burden and energy consumption. This article provides a comprehensive survey of the state of the art in SC and EE strategies and presents a set of compelling research challenges.
Mobile devices such as smartphones and autonomous vehicles increasingly rely on deep neural networks (DNNs) to execute complex inference tasks such as image classification and speech recognition, among others. However, continuously executing the entire DNN on mobile devices can quickly deplete their battery. Although task offloading to cloud/edge servers may decrease the mobile device's computational burden, erratic patterns in channel quality, network, and edge server load can lead to a significant delay in task execution. Recently, approaches based on split computing (SC) have been proposed, where the DNN is split into a head and a tail model, executed respectively on the mobile device and on the edge server. Ultimately, this may reduce bandwidth usage as well as energy consumption. Another approach, called early exiting (EE), trains models to embed multiple exits earlier in the architecture, each providing increasingly higher target accuracy. Therefore, the tradeoff between accuracy arid delay can be tuned according to the current conditions or application demands. In this article, we provide a comprehensive survey of the state of the art in SC and EE strategies by presenting a comparison of the most relevant approaches. We conclude the article by providing a set of compelling research challenges.
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