Memory-efficient Energy-adaptive Inference of Pre-Trained Models on Batteryless Embedded Systems

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Main Authors: Farina, Pietro, Biswas, Subrata, Yıldız, Eren, Akhunov, Khakim, Ahmed, Saad, Islam, Bashima, Yıldırım, Kasım Sinan
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author Farina, Pietro
Biswas, Subrata
Yıldız, Eren
Akhunov, Khakim
Ahmed, Saad
Islam, Bashima
Yıldırım, Kasım Sinan
author_facet Farina, Pietro
Biswas, Subrata
Yıldız, Eren
Akhunov, Khakim
Ahmed, Saad
Islam, Bashima
Yıldırım, Kasım Sinan
contents Batteryless systems frequently face power failures, requiring extra runtime buffers to maintain inference progress and leaving only a memory space for storing ultra-tiny deep neural networks (DNNs). Besides, making these models responsive to stochastic energy harvesting dynamics during inference requires a balance between inference accuracy, latency, and energy overhead. Recent works on compression mostly focus on time and memory, but often ignore energy dynamics or significantly reduce the accuracy of pre-trained DNNs. Existing energy-adaptive inference works modify the architecture of pre-trained models and have significant memory overhead. Thus, energy-adaptive and accurate inference of pre-trained DNNs on batteryless devices with extreme memory constraints is more challenging than traditional microcontrollers. We combat these issues by proposing FreeML, a framework to optimize pre-trained DNN models for memory-efficient and energy-adaptive inference on batteryless systems. FreeML comprises (1) a novel compression technique to reduce the model footprint and runtime memory requirements simultaneously, making them executable on extremely memory-constrained batteryless platforms; and (2) the first early exit mechanism that uses a single exit branch for all exit points to terminate inference at any time, making models energy-adaptive with minimal memory overhead. Our experiments showed that FreeML reduces the model sizes by up to $95 \times$, supports adaptive inference with a $2.03-19.65 \times$ less memory overhead, and provides significant time and energy benefits with only a negligible accuracy drop compared to the state-of-the-art.
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spellingShingle Memory-efficient Energy-adaptive Inference of Pre-Trained Models on Batteryless Embedded Systems
Farina, Pietro
Biswas, Subrata
Yıldız, Eren
Akhunov, Khakim
Ahmed, Saad
Islam, Bashima
Yıldırım, Kasım Sinan
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Batteryless systems frequently face power failures, requiring extra runtime buffers to maintain inference progress and leaving only a memory space for storing ultra-tiny deep neural networks (DNNs). Besides, making these models responsive to stochastic energy harvesting dynamics during inference requires a balance between inference accuracy, latency, and energy overhead. Recent works on compression mostly focus on time and memory, but often ignore energy dynamics or significantly reduce the accuracy of pre-trained DNNs. Existing energy-adaptive inference works modify the architecture of pre-trained models and have significant memory overhead. Thus, energy-adaptive and accurate inference of pre-trained DNNs on batteryless devices with extreme memory constraints is more challenging than traditional microcontrollers. We combat these issues by proposing FreeML, a framework to optimize pre-trained DNN models for memory-efficient and energy-adaptive inference on batteryless systems. FreeML comprises (1) a novel compression technique to reduce the model footprint and runtime memory requirements simultaneously, making them executable on extremely memory-constrained batteryless platforms; and (2) the first early exit mechanism that uses a single exit branch for all exit points to terminate inference at any time, making models energy-adaptive with minimal memory overhead. Our experiments showed that FreeML reduces the model sizes by up to $95 \times$, supports adaptive inference with a $2.03-19.65 \times$ less memory overhead, and provides significant time and energy benefits with only a negligible accuracy drop compared to the state-of-the-art.
title Memory-efficient Energy-adaptive Inference of Pre-Trained Models on Batteryless Embedded Systems
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10426