The Future of Consumer Edge-AI Computing

Stefanos Laskaridis, Stylianos I. Venieris, Alexandros Kouris, Rui Li, Nicholas D. Lane

Abstract: Deep Learning has proliferated dramatically across consumer devices in less than a decade, but has been largely powered through the hardware acceleration within isolated devices. Nonetheless, clear signals exist that the next decade of consumer intelligence will require levels of resources, a mixing of modalities and a collaboration of devices that will demand a significant pivot beyond hardware alone. To accomplish this, we believe a new Edge-AI paradigm will be necessary for this transition to be possible in a sustainable manner, without trespassing user-privacy or hurting quality of experience.