基于深度学习的超分辨率（SR）近年来由于其高图像质量性能和广泛的应用方案而获得了极大的知名度。但是，先前的方法通常会遭受大量计算和巨大的功耗，这会导致实时推断的困难，尤其是在资源有限的平台（例如移动设备）上。为了减轻这种情况，我们建议使用自适应SR块进行深度搜索和每层宽度搜索，以进行深度搜索和每层宽度搜索。推理速度与SR损失一起直接将其带入具有高图像质量的SR模型，同​​时满足实时推理需求。借用了与编译器优化的速度模型在搜索过程中每次迭代中的移动设备上的速度，以预测具有各种宽度配置的SR块的推理潜伏期，以更快地收敛。通过提出的框架，我们在移动平台的GPU/DSP上实现了实时SR推断，以实现具有竞争性SR性能的720p分辨率（三星Galaxy S21）。

重量修剪是一种有效的模型压缩技术，可以解决在移动设备上实现实时深神经网络（DNN）推断的挑战。然而，由于精度劣化，难以利用硬件加速度，以及某些类型的DNN层的限制，难以降低的应用方案具有有限的应用方案。在本文中，我们提出了一般的细粒度的结构化修剪方案和相应的编译器优化，适用于任何类型的DNN层，同时实现高精度和硬件推理性能。随着使用我们的编译器优化所支持的不同层的灵活性，我们进一步探讨了确定最佳修剪方案的新问题，了解各种修剪方案的不同加速度和精度性能。两个修剪方案映射方法，一个是基于搜索，另一个是基于规则的，建议自动推导出任何给定DNN的每层的最佳修剪规则和块大小。实验结果表明，我们的修剪方案映射方法，以及一般细粒化结构修剪方案，优于最先进的DNN优化框架，最高可达2.48 $ \ times $和1.73 $ \ times $ DNN推理加速在CiFar-10和Imagenet DataSet上没有准确性损失。

During the deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices, many research efforts are devoted to the limited hardware resource. However, little attention is paid to the influence of dynamic power management. As edge devices typically only have a budget of energy with batteries (rather than almost unlimited energy support on servers or workstations), their dynamic power management often changes the execution frequency as in the widely-used dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) technique. This leads to highly unstable inference speed performance, especially for computation-intensive DNN models, which can harm user experience and waste hardware resources. We firstly identify this problem and then propose All-in-One, a highly representative pruning framework to work with dynamic power management using DVFS. The framework can use only one set of model weights and soft masks (together with other auxiliary parameters of negligible storage) to represent multiple models of various pruning ratios. By re-configuring the model to the corresponding pruning ratio for a specific execution frequency (and voltage), we are able to achieve stable inference speed, i.e., keeping the difference in speed performance under various execution frequencies as small as possible. Our experiments demonstrate that our method not only achieves high accuracy for multiple models of different pruning ratios, but also reduces their variance of inference latency for various frequencies, with minimal memory consumption of only one model and one soft mask.

深度学习技术在各种任务中都表现出了出色的有效性，并且深度学习具有推进多种应用程序（包括在边缘计算中）的潜力，其中将深层模型部署在边缘设备上，以实现即时的数据处理和响应。一个关键的挑战是，虽然深层模型的应用通常会产生大量的内存和计算成本，但Edge设备通常只提供非常有限的存储和计算功能，这些功能可能会在各个设备之间差异很大。这些特征使得难以构建深度学习解决方案，以释放边缘设备的潜力，同时遵守其约束。应对这一挑战的一种有希望的方法是自动化有效的深度学习模型的设计，这些模型轻巧，仅需少量存储，并且仅产生低计算开销。该调查提供了针对边缘计算的深度学习模型设计自动化技术的全面覆盖。它提供了关键指标的概述和比较，这些指标通常用于量化模型在有效性，轻度和计算成本方面的水平。然后，该调查涵盖了深层设计自动化技术的三类最新技术：自动化神经体系结构搜索，自动化模型压缩以及联合自动化设计和压缩。最后，调查涵盖了未来研究的开放问题和方向。

基于卷积神经网络（CNN）的现代单图像超分辨率（SISR）系统实现了花哨的性能，而需要巨大的计算成本。在视觉识别任务中对特征冗余的问题进行了很好的研究，但很少在SISR中进行讨论。基于这样的观察，SISR模型中的许多功能也彼此相似，我们建议使用Shift操作来生成冗余功能（即幽灵功能）。与在类似GPU的设备上耗时的深度卷积相比，Shift操作可以为CNN带来实用的推理加速度。我们分析了SISR操作对SISR任务的好处，并根据Gumbel-SoftMax技巧使Shift取向可学习。此外，基于预训练的模型探索了聚类过程，以识别用于生成内在特征的内在过滤器。幽灵功能将通过沿特定方向移动这些内在功能来得出。最后，完整的输出功能是通过将固有和幽灵特征串联在一起来构建的。在几个基准模型和数据集上进行的广泛实验表明，嵌入了所提出方法的非压缩和轻质SISR模型都可以实现与基准的可比性能，并大大降低了参数，拖台和GPU推荐延迟。例如，我们将参数降低46％，FLOPS掉落46％，而GPU推断潜伏期则减少了$ \ times2 $ EDSR网络的42％，基本上是无损的。

深神经网络（DNNS）在各种机器学习（ML）应用程序中取得了巨大成功，在计算机视觉，自然语言处理和虚拟现实等中提供了高质量的推理解决方案。但是，基于DNN的ML应用程序也带来计算和存储要求的增加了很多，对于具有有限的计算/存储资源，紧张的功率预算和较小形式的嵌入式系统而言，这尤其具有挑战性。挑战还来自各种特定应用的要求，包括实时响应，高通量性能和可靠的推理准确性。为了应对这些挑战，我们介绍了一系列有效的设计方法，包括有效的ML模型设计，定制的硬件加速器设计以及硬件/软件共同设计策略，以启用嵌入式系统上有效的ML应用程序。

In recent years, image and video delivery systems have begun integrating deep learning super-resolution (SR) approaches, leveraging their unprecedented visual enhancement capabilities while reducing reliance on networking conditions. Nevertheless, deploying these solutions on mobile devices still remains an active challenge as SR models are excessively demanding with respect to workload and memory footprint. Despite recent progress on on-device SR frameworks, existing systems either penalize visual quality, lead to excessive energy consumption or make inefficient use of the available resources. This work presents NAWQ-SR, a novel framework for the efficient on-device execution of SR models. Through a novel hybrid-precision quantization technique and a runtime neural image codec, NAWQ-SR exploits the multi-precision capabilities of modern mobile NPUs in order to minimize latency, while meeting user-specified quality constraints. Moreover, NAWQ-SR selectively adapts the arithmetic precision at run time to equip the SR DNN's layers with wider representational power, improving visual quality beyond what was previously possible on NPUs. Altogether, NAWQ-SR achieves an average speedup of 7.9x, 3x and 1.91x over the state-of-the-art on-device SR systems that use heterogeneous processors (MobiSR), CPU (SplitSR) and NPU (XLSR), respectively. Furthermore, NAWQ-SR delivers an average of 3.2x speedup and 0.39 dB higher PSNR over status-quo INT8 NPU designs, but most importantly mitigates the negative effects of quantization on visual quality, setting a new state-of-the-art in the attainable quality of NPU-based SR.

In recent years, deep learning methods have been successfully applied to single-image super-resolution tasks. Despite their great performances, deep learning methods cannot be easily applied to realworld applications due to the requirement of heavy computation. In this paper, we address this issue by proposing an accurate and lightweight deep network for image super-resolution. In detail, we design an architecture that implements a cascading mechanism upon a residual network. We also present variant models of the proposed cascading residual network to further improve efficiency. Our extensive experiments show that even with much fewer parameters and operations, our models achieve performance comparable to that of state-of-the-art methods.

Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) tasks have achieved significant performance with deep neural networks. However, the large number of parameters in CNN-based met-hods for SISR tasks require heavy computations. Although several efficient SISR models have been recently proposed, most are handcrafted and thus lack flexibility. In this work, we propose a novel differentiable Neural Architecture Search (NAS) approach on both the cell-level and network-level to search for lightweight SISR models. Specifically, the cell-level search space is designed based on an information distillation mechanism, focusing on the combinations of lightweight operations and aiming to build a more lightweight and accurate SR structure. The network-level search space is designed to consider the feature connections among the cells and aims to find which information flow benefits the cell most to boost the performance. Unlike the existing Reinforcement Learning (RL) or Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) based NAS methods for SISR tasks, our search pipeline is fully differentiable, and the lightweight SISR models can be efficiently searched on both the cell-level and network-level jointly on a single GPU. Experiments show that our methods can achieve state-of-the-art performance on the benchmark datasets in terms of PSNR, SSIM, and model complexity with merely 68G Multi-Adds for $\times 2$ and 18G Multi-Adds for $\times 4$ SR tasks.

对将AI功能从云上的数据中心转移到边缘或最终设备的需求越来越大，这是由在智能手机，AR/VR设备，自动驾驶汽车和各种汽车上运行的快速实时AI的应用程序举例说明的。物联网设备。然而，由于DNN计算需求与边缘或最终设备上的计算能力之间的较大增长差距，这种转变受到了严重的阻碍。本文介绍了XGEN的设计，这是DNN的优化框架，旨在弥合差距。 XGEN将横切共同设计作为其一阶考虑。它的全栈AI面向AI的优化包括在DNN软件堆栈的各个层的许多创新优化，所有这些优化都以合作的方式设计。独特的技术使XGEN能够优化各种DNN，包括具有极高深度的DNN（例如Bert，GPT，其他变形金刚），并生成代码比现有DNN框架中的代码快几倍，同时提供相同的准确性水平。

随着深度学习（DL）的出现，超分辨率（SR）也已成为一个蓬勃发展的研究领域。然而，尽管结果有希望，但该领域仍然面临需要进一步研究的挑战，例如，允许灵活地采样，更有效的损失功能和更好的评估指标。我们根据最近的进步来回顾SR的域，并检查最新模型，例如扩散（DDPM）和基于变压器的SR模型。我们对SR中使用的当代策略进行了批判性讨论，并确定了有前途但未开发的研究方向。我们通过纳入该领域的最新发展，例如不确定性驱动的损失，小波网络，神经体系结构搜索，新颖的归一化方法和最新评估技术来补充先前的调查。我们还为整章中的模型和方法提供了几种可视化，以促进对该领域趋势的全球理解。最终，这篇综述旨在帮助研究人员推动DL应用于SR的界限。

深度神经网络通过学习从低分辨率（LR）图像到高分辨率（HR）图像的映射，在图像超分辨率（SR）任务中表现出了显着的性能。但是，SR问题通常是一个不适的问题，现有方法将受到一些局限性。首先，由于可能存在许多不同的HR图像，因此SR的可能映射空间可能非常大，可以将其删除到相同的LR图像中。结果，很难直接从如此大的空间中学习有希望的SR映射。其次，通常不可避免地要开发具有极高计算成本的非常大型模型来产生有希望的SR性能。实际上，可以使用模型压缩技术通过降低模型冗余来获得紧凑的模型。然而，由于非常大的SR映射空间，现有模型压缩方法很难准确识别冗余组件。为了减轻第一个挑战，我们提出了一项双重回归学习计划，以减少可能的SR映射空间。具体而言，除了从LR到HR图像的映射外，我们还学习了一个附加的双回归映射，以估算下采样内核和重建LR图像。通过这种方式，双映射是减少可能映射空间的约束。为了应对第二项挑战，我们提出了一种轻巧的双回归压缩方法，以基于通道修剪来降低图层级别和通道级别的模型冗余。具体而言，我们首先开发了一种通道编号搜索方法，该方法将双重回归损耗最小化以确定每一层的冗余。鉴于搜索的通道编号，我们进一步利用双重回归方式来评估通道的重要性并修剪冗余。广泛的实验显示了我们方法在获得准确有效的SR模型方面的有效性。

Recent efforts in Neural Rendering Fields (NeRF) have shown impressive results on novel view synthesis by utilizing implicit neural representation to represent 3D scenes. Due to the process of volumetric rendering, the inference speed for NeRF is extremely slow, limiting the application scenarios of utilizing NeRF on resource-constrained hardware, such as mobile devices. Many works have been conducted to reduce the latency of running NeRF models. However, most of them still require high-end GPU for acceleration or extra storage memory, which is all unavailable on mobile devices. Another emerging direction utilizes the neural light field (NeLF) for speedup, as only one forward pass is performed on a ray to predict the pixel color. Nevertheless, to reach a similar rendering quality as NeRF, the network in NeLF is designed with intensive computation, which is not mobile-friendly. In this work, we propose an efficient network that runs in real-time on mobile devices for neural rendering. We follow the setting of NeLF to train our network. Unlike existing works, we introduce a novel network architecture that runs efficiently on mobile devices with low latency and small size, i.e., saving $15\times \sim 24\times$ storage compared with MobileNeRF. Our model achieves high-resolution generation while maintaining real-time inference for both synthetic and real-world scenes on mobile devices, e.g., $18.04$ms (iPhone 13) for rendering one $1008\times756$ image of real 3D scenes. Additionally, we achieve similar image quality as NeRF and better quality than MobileNeRF (PSNR $26.15$ vs. $25.91$ on the real-world forward-facing dataset).

近年来，通过开发大型的深层模型，图像修复任务已经见证了绩效的巨大提高。尽管表现出色，但深层模型要求的重量计算限制了图像恢复的应用。为了提高限制，需要减少网络的大小，同时保持准确性。最近，N：M结构化修剪似乎是使模型具有准确性约束的有效且实用的修剪方法之一。但是，它无法解释图像恢复网络不同层的不同计算复杂性和性能要求。为了进一步优化效率和恢复精度之间的权衡，我们提出了一种新型的修剪方法，该方法确定了每一层N：M结构稀疏性的修剪比。关于超分辨率和脱张任务的广泛实验结果证明了我们方法的功效，该方法的表现胜过以前的修剪方法。拟议方法的Pytorch实施将在https://github.com/junghunoh/sls_cvpr2r2022上公开获得。

Neural architecture search (NAS) has a great impact by automatically designing effective neural network architectures. However, the prohibitive computational demand of conventional NAS algorithms (e.g. 10 4 GPU hours) makes it difficult to directly search the architectures on large-scale tasks (e.g. ImageNet). Differentiable NAS can reduce the cost of GPU hours via a continuous representation of network architecture but suffers from the high GPU memory consumption issue (grow linearly w.r.t. candidate set size). As a result, they need to utilize proxy tasks, such as training on a smaller dataset, or learning with only a few blocks, or training just for a few epochs. These architectures optimized on proxy tasks are not guaranteed to be optimal on the target task. In this paper, we present ProxylessNAS that can directly learn the architectures for large-scale target tasks and target hardware platforms. We address the high memory consumption issue of differentiable NAS and reduce the computational cost (GPU hours and GPU memory) to the same level of regular training while still allowing a large candidate set. Experiments on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet demonstrate the effectiveness of directness and specialization. On CIFAR-10, our model achieves 2.08% test error with only 5.7M parameters, better than the previous state-of-the-art architecture AmoebaNet-B, while using 6× fewer parameters. On ImageNet, our model achieves 3.1% better top-1 accuracy than MobileNetV2, while being 1.2× faster with measured GPU latency. We also apply ProxylessNAS to specialize neural architectures for hardware with direct hardware metrics (e.g. latency) and provide insights for efficient CNN architecture design. 1

由于计算的未来是异质的，因此可伸缩性是单图超分辨率的关键问题。最近的工作尝试训练一个网络，该网络可以部署在具有不同能力的平台上。但是，他们依靠像素稀疏卷积，这不是硬件友好，并且实现了有限的实际加速。由于可以将图像分为各种恢复困难的斑块，因此我们提出了一种基于自适应贴片（APE）的可扩展方法，以实现更实用的加速。具体而言，我们建议训练回归器，以预测贴片每一层的增量能力。一旦增量容量低于阈值，贴片就可以在特定层中退出。我们的方法可以通过改变增量容量的阈值来轻松调整性能和效率之间的权衡。此外，我们提出了一种新的策略，以实现我们方法的网络培训。我们在各种骨架，数据集和缩放因素上进行了广泛的实验，以证明我们方法的优势。代码可从https://github.com/littlepure2333/ape获得

随着卷积神经网络最近的大规模发展，已经提出了用于边缘设备上实用部署的大量基于CNN的显着图像超分辨率方法。但是，大多数现有方法都集中在一个特定方面：网络或损失设计，这导致难以最大程度地减少模型大小。为了解决这个问题，我们得出结论，设计，架构搜索和损失设计，以获得更有效的SR结构。在本文中，我们提出了一个名为EFDN的边缘增强功能蒸馏网络，以保留在约束资源下的高频信息。详细说明，我们基于现有的重新处理方法构建了一个边缘增强卷积块。同时，我们提出了边缘增强的梯度损失，以校准重新分配的路径训练。实验结果表明，我们的边缘增强策略可以保持边缘并显着提高最终恢复质量。代码可在https://github.com/icandle/efdn上找到。

单像超分辨率可以在需要可靠的视觉流以监视任务，处理远程操作或研究相关视觉细节的环境中支持机器人任务。在这项工作中，我们为实时超级分辨率提出了一个有效的生成对抗网络模型。我们采用了原始SRGAN的量身定制体系结构和模型量化，以提高CPU和Edge TPU设备上的执行，最多达到200 fps的推断。我们通过将其知识提炼成较小版本的网络，进一步优化我们的模型，并与标准培训方法相比获得显着的改进。我们的实验表明，与较重的最新模型相比，我们的快速和轻量级模型可保持相当令人满意的图像质量。最后，我们对图像传输进行带宽降解的实验，以突出提出的移动机器人应用系统的优势。

While machine learning is traditionally a resource intensive task, embedded systems, autonomous navigation, and the vision of the Internet of Things fuel the interest in resource-efficient approaches. These approaches aim for a carefully chosen trade-off between performance and resource consumption in terms of computation and energy. The development of such approaches is among the major challenges in current machine learning research and key to ensure a smooth transition of machine learning technology from a scientific environment with virtually unlimited computing resources into everyday's applications. In this article, we provide an overview of the current state of the art of machine learning techniques facilitating these real-world requirements. In particular, we focus on deep neural networks (DNNs), the predominant machine learning models of the past decade. We give a comprehensive overview of the vast literature that can be mainly split into three non-mutually exclusive categories: (i) quantized neural networks, (ii) network pruning, and (iii) structural efficiency. These techniques can be applied during training or as post-processing, and they are widely used to reduce the computational demands in terms of memory footprint, inference speed, and energy efficiency. We also briefly discuss different concepts of embedded hardware for DNNs and their compatibility with machine learning techniques as well as potential for energy and latency reduction. We substantiate our discussion with experiments on well-known benchmark datasets using compression techniques (quantization, pruning) for a set of resource-constrained embedded systems, such as CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs. The obtained results highlight the difficulty of finding good trade-offs between resource efficiency and predictive performance.

Designing accurate and efficient ConvNets for mobile devices is challenging because the design space is combinatorially large. Due to this, previous neural architecture search (NAS) methods are computationally expensive. ConvNet architecture optimality depends on factors such as input resolution and target devices. However, existing approaches are too resource demanding for case-by-case redesigns. Also, previous work focuses primarily on reducing FLOPs, but FLOP count does not always reflect actual latency. To address these, we propose a differentiable neural architecture search (DNAS) framework that uses gradient-based methods to optimize Con-vNet architectures, avoiding enumerating and training individual architectures separately as in previous methods. FBNets (Facebook-Berkeley-Nets), a family of models discovered by DNAS surpass state-of-the-art models both designed manually and generated automatically. FBNet-B achieves 74.1% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet with 295M FLOPs and 23.1 ms latency on a Samsung S8 phone, 2.4x smaller and 1.5x faster than MobileNetV2-1.3[17] with similar accuracy. Despite higher accuracy and lower latency than MnasNet[20], we estimate FBNet-B's search cost is 420x smaller than MnasNet's, at only 216 GPUhours. Searched for different resolutions and channel sizes, FBNets achieve 1.5% to 6.4% higher accuracy than Mo-bileNetV2. The smallest FBNet achieves 50.2% accuracy and 2.9 ms latency (345 frames per second) on a Samsung S8. Over a Samsung-optimized FBNet, the iPhone-Xoptimized model achieves a 1.4x speedup on an iPhone X. FBNet models are open-sourced at https://github. com/facebookresearch/mobile-vision. * Work done while interning at Facebook.… Figure 1. Differentiable neural architecture search (DNAS) for ConvNet design. DNAS explores a layer-wise space that each layer of a ConvNet can choose a different block. The search space is represented by a stochastic super net. The search process trains the stochastic super net using SGD to optimize the architecture distribution. Optimal architectures are sampled from the trained distribution. The latency of each operator is measured on target devices and used to compute the loss for the super net.