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DeepThings: Distributed Adaptive Deep Learning Inference on Resource-Constrained IoT Edge Clusters


Abstract:

Edge computing has emerged as a trend to improve scalability, overhead, and privacy by processing large-scale data, e.g., in deep learning applications locally at the sou...Show More

Abstract:

Edge computing has emerged as a trend to improve scalability, overhead, and privacy by processing large-scale data, e.g., in deep learning applications locally at the source. In IoT networks, edge devices are characterized by tight resource constraints and often dynamic nature of data sources, where existing approaches for deploying Deep/Convolutional Neural Networks (DNNs/CNNs) can only meet IoT constraints when severely reducing accuracy or using a static distribution that cannot adapt to dynamic IoT environments. In this paper, we propose DeepThings, a framework for adaptively distributed execution of CNN-based inference applications on tightly resource-constrained IoT edge clusters. DeepThings employs a scalable Fused Tile Partitioning (FTP) of convolutional layers to minimize memory footprint while exposing parallelism. It further realizes a distributed work stealing approach to enable dynamic workload distribution and balancing at inference runtime. Finally, we employ a novel work scheduling process to improve data reuse and reduce overall execution latency. Results show that our proposed FTP method can reduce memory footprint by more than 68% without sacrificing accuracy. Furthermore, compared to existing work sharing methods, our distributed work stealing and work scheduling improve throughput by 1.7\times -2.2\times with multiple dynamic data sources. When combined, DeepThings provides scalable CNN inference speedups of 1.7\times3.5\times on 2–6 edge devices with less than 23 MB memory each.
Page(s): 2348 - 2359
Date of Publication: 16 October 2018

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