Energy-Efficient Processing and Robust Wireless Cooperative Transmission for Edge Inference
Abstract
Edge machine learning can deliver low-latency and private artificial intelligent (AI) services for mobile devices by leveraging computation and storage resources at the network edge. This paper presents an energy-efficient edge processing framework to execute deep learning inference tasks at the edge computing nodes whose wireless connections to mobile devices are prone to channel uncertainties. Aimed at minimizing the sum of computation and transmission power consumption with probabilistic quality-of-service (QoS) constraints, we formulate a joint inference tasking and downlink beamforming problem that is characterized by a group sparse objective function. We provide a statistical learning based robust optimization approach to approximate the highly intractable probabilistic-QoS constraints by nonconvex quadratic constraints, which are further reformulated as matrix inequalities with a rank-one constraint via matrix lifting. We design a reweighted power minimization approach by iteratively reweighted $\ell_1$ minimization with difference-of-convex-functions (DC) regularization and updating weights, where the reweighted approach is adopted for enhancing group sparsity whereas the DC regularization is designed for inducing rank-one solutions. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms other state-of-the-art approaches.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 2019
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1907.12475
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1907.12475
- Bibcode:
- 2019arXiv190712475Y
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Information Theory;
- Computer Science - Machine Learning;
- Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing
- E-Print:
- This paper has been accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal