Cloud-assisted collaborative inference of convolutional neural networks for vision tasks on resource-constrained devices

Ivan Rodriguez-Conde, Celso Campos, Florentino Fdez-Riverola

Abstract: Highlights•Comprehensive review of collaborative inference on convolutional neural networks under the mobile cloud computing paradigm.•Thorough analysis and comparison of the most relevant co-inference frameworks, covering the underlying workflow and the approaches exploited at the infrastructure level.•In-depth discussion on the automatic generation of co-inference schemes, detailing the abstractions to model the problem and the different solution algorithms devised.