ILRM: Imitation Learning-Based Resource Management for Integrated CPU–GPU Edge Systems With Renewable Energy Sources

This letter focuses on integrated CPU-GPU edge systems with renewable energy sources and studies the resource management problem to minimize the energy consumption of real-time tasks while ensuring temperature and reliability constraints. We propose an imitation learning (IL)-based resource management scheme, ILRM, implemented in two phases: 1) offline Oracle generation and 2) online IL. In the offline phase, we design a fast-converging heuristic to generate near-optimal solutions (i.e., Oracles) for training an online prediction model. In the online phase, we realize IL using the trained model that predicts the resource configuration policies for the incoming task sets to be scheduled. A data aggregation method is also developed to enhance the robustness of the prediction model. We validate ILRM through extensive experiments on both simulated and real integrated CPU-GPU edge platforms.