EMDL

Embedded and mobile deep learning research notes

Papers

Model

1. DeepRebirth: Accelerating Deep Neural Network Execution on Mobile Devices [arXiv '17, Samsung]

2. ShuffleNet: An Extremely Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Mobile Devices [arXiv '17, Megvii]

3. MobileNets: Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Vision Applications [arXiv '17, Google]

System

1. DeepMon: Mobile GPU-based Deep Learning Framework for Continuous Vision Applications [MobiSys '17]

2. DeepEye: Resource Efficient Local Execution of Multiple Deep Vision Models using Wearable Commodity Hardware [MobiSys '17]

3. MobiRNN: Efficient Recurrent Neural Network Execution on Mobile GPU [EMDL '17]

4. DeepSense: A GPU-based deep convolutional neural network framework on commodity mobile devices [WearSys '16]

5. DeepX: A Software Accelerator for Low-Power Deep Learning Inference on Mobile Devices [IPSN '16]

6. EIE: Efficient Inference Engine on Compressed Deep Neural Network [ISCA '16]

7. MCDNN: An Approximation-Based Execution Framework for Deep Stream Processing Under Resource Constraints [MobiSys '16]

8. DXTK: Enabling Resource-efficient Deep Learning on Mobile and Embedded Devices with the DeepX Toolkit [MobiCASE '16]

9. Sparsification and Separation of Deep Learning Layers for Constrained Resource Inference on Wearables [SenSys ’16]

10. An Early Resource Characterization of Deep Learning on Wearables, Smartphones and Internet-of-Things Devices [IoT-App ’15]

11. CNNdroid: GPU-Accelerated Execution of Trained Deep Convolutional Neural Networks on Android [MM '16]

Quantization

1. The ZipML Framework for Training Models with End-to-End Low Precision: The Cans, the Cannots, and a Little Bit of Deep Learning [ICML'17]
2. Compressing Deep Convolutional Networks using Vector Quantization [arXiv'14]
3. Quantized Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Devices [CVPR '16]
4. Fixed-Point Performance Analysis of Recurrent Neural Networks [ICASSP'16]
5. Quantized Neural Networks: Training Neural Networks with Low Precision Weights and Activations [arXiv'16]
6. Loss-aware Binarization of Deep Networks [ICLR'17]
7. Towards the Limit of Network Quantization [ICLR'17]
8. Deep Learning with Low Precision by Half-wave Gaussian Quantization [CVPR'17]
9. ShiftCNN: Generalized Low-Precision Architecture for Inference of Convolutional Neural Networks [arXiv'17]
10. Performance Guaranteed Network Acceleration via High-Order Residual Quantization [ICCV'17]

Pruning

1. Learning both Weights and Connections for Efficient Neural Networks [NIPS'15]
2. Pruning Filters for Efficient ConvNets [ICLR'17]
3. Pruning Convolutional Neural Networks for Resource Efficient Inference [ICLR'17]
4. Soft Weight-Sharing for Neural Network Compression [ICLR'17]
5. Deep Compression: Compressing Deep Neural Networks with Pruning, Trained Quantization and Huffman Coding [ICLR'16]
6. Dynamic Network Surgery for Efficient DNNs [NIPS'16]
7. Designing Energy-Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks using Energy-Aware Pruning [CVPR'17]
8. ThiNet: A Filter Level Pruning Method for Deep Neural Network Compression [ICCV'17]

Approximation

1. Efficient and Accurate Approximations of Nonlinear Convolutional Networks [CVPR'15]
2. Accelerating Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Classification and Detection (Extended version of above one)
3. Convolutional neural networks with low-rank regularization [arXiv'15]
4. Exploiting Linear Structure Within Convolutional Networks for Efficient Evaluation [NIPS'14]
5. Compression of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Fast and Low Power Mobile Applications [ICLR'16]

Libraries

General

1. ARM-software/ComputeLibrary: The ARM Computer Vision and Machine Learning library is a set of functions optimised for both ARM CPUs and GPUs using SIMD technologies, Intro

2. Apple CoreML

3. Tencent/ncnn: ncnn is a high-performance neural network inference framework optimized for the mobile platform

4. Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine

5. Microsoft Embedded Learning Library

6. MXNet Amalgamation

7. TensorFlow on Android

Web

1. mil-tokyo/webdnn: Fastest DNN Execution Framework on Web Browser

Tutorials

General

1. Squeezing Deep Learning Into Mobile Phones

2. Deep Learning – Tutorial and Recent Trends

3. Tutorial on Hardware Architectures for Deep Neural Networks

4. Efficient Convolutional Neural Network Inference on Mobile GPUs

NEON

1. NEON™ Programmer’s Guide

OpenCL

1. ARM® Mali™ GPU OpenCL Developer Guide, pdf

2. Optimal Compute on ARM Mali™ GPUs

3. GPU Compute for Mobile Devices

4. Compute for Mobile Devices Performance focused

5. Hands On OpenCL

6. Adreno OpenCL Programming Guide

7. Better OpenCL Performance on Qualcomm Adreno GPU

Courses

1. Deep learning systems, UW course schedule(focused on systems design, not learning)

Demos

General

1. TensorFlow Android Camera Demo

2. TensorFlow iOS Example

3. Caffe2 AICamera

Vulkan

1. Vulkan API Examples and Demos

2. Neural Machine Translation on Android

OpenCL

1. DeepMon

RenderScript

1. Mobile_ConvNet: RenderScript CNN for Android

Tools

GPU

1. Bifrost GPU architecture and ARM Mali-G71 GPU

2. Midgard GPU Architecture, ARM Mali-T880 GPU

3. Mobile GPU market share

Driver

1. [Adreno] csarron/qcom_vendor_binaries: Common Proprietary Qualcomm Binaries
2. [Mali] Fevax/vendor_samsung_hero2ltexx: Blobs from s7 Edge G935F