Realtime AI Application on Mobile Devices

Wei Niu also designed several creative real-time AI-applications on mobile devices based on his research, here are some examples:

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Selected Publications

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GCD²: A Globally Optimizing Compiler for Mapping DNNs to Mobile DSPs

Wei Niu, Jiexiong Guan, Xipeng Shen, Yanzhi Wang, Gagan Agrawal, Bin Ren

55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture MICRO'22

MEST: Accurate and Fast Memory-Economic Sparse Training Framework on the Edge

Yuan, G., Ma, X., Niu, W., Li, Z., Kong, Z., Liu, N., Gong, Y., Zhan, Z., He, C., Jin, Q., Wang, S., Qin, M., Ren, B., Wang, Y., Liu, S., Lin, X.

Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems NeurIPS'21

Achieving on-Mobile Real-Time Super-Resolution with Neural Architecture and Pruning Search

Zheng Zhan, Yifan Gong, Pu Zhao, Geng Yuan, Wei Niu, Yushu Wu, Tianyun Zhang, Malith Jayaweera, David Kaeli, Bin Ren, Xue Lin, Yanzhi Wang

International Conference on Computer Vision, 2021 ICCV'21

GRIM: A General, Real-Time Deep Learning Inference Framework for Mobile Devices based on Fine-Grained Structured Weight Sparsity

Wei Niu*, Zhengang Li*, Xiaolong Ma, Peiyang Dong, Gang Zhou, Xuehai Qian, Xue Lin, Yanzhi Wang, Bin Ren

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021 TPAMI'21

ClickTrain: Efficient and Accurate End-to-End Deep LearningTraining via Fine-Grained Architecture-Preserving Pruning

Chengming Zhang, Geng Yuan, Wei Niu, Jiannan Tian, Sian Jin, Donglin Zhuang, Zhe Jiang, Yanzhi Wang, Bin Ren, Shuaiwen Song, Dingwen Tao

The 35th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (acceptance rate: 39/157) ICS'21

DNNFusion: Accelerating Deep Neural Networks Execution with Advanced Operator Fusion

Wei Niu, Jiexiong Guan, Yanzhi Wang, Gagan Agrawal, Bin Ren

42nd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 2021 (acceptance rate: 87/320) PLDI'21

NPAS: A Compiler-aware Framework of Unified Network Pruning and Architecture Search for Beyond Real-Time Mobile Acceleration

Li, Z.*, Yuan, G.*, Niu, W.*, Zhao, P.*, Li, Y., Cai, Y., Shen, X., Zhan, Z., Kong, Z., Jin, Q., Chen, Z., Liu, S., Yang, K., Ren, B., Wang, Y., Lin, X.

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2021 (oral paper: top 5%, acceptance rate: 1593/7500) CVPR'21

Neural Pruning Search for Real-Time Object Detection of Autonomous Vehicles

Pu Zhao, Geng Yuan, Yuxuan Cai, Wei Niu, Qi Liu, Wujie Wen, Bin Ren, Yanzhi Wang, Xue Lin

58th Annual Design Automation Conference, 2021 DAC'21

Real-Time Mobile Acceleration of DNNs: From Computer Vision to Medical Applications

Hongjia Li, Geng Yuan, Wei Niu, Yuxuan Cai, Mengshu Sun, Zhengang Li, Bin Ren, Xue Lin, and Yanzhi Wang

Proceeding of Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2021 ASP-DAC'21

Achieving Real-Time Execution of 3D Convolutional Neural Networks on Mobile Devices

Wei Niu*, Mengshu Sun*, Zhengang Li*, Jou-An Chen, Jiexiong Guan, Xipeng Shen, Yanzhi Wang, Xue Lin, Bin Ren

Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021 AAAI'21

YOLObile: Real-Time Object Detection on Mobile Devices via Compression-Compilation Co-Design

Yuxuan Cai, Hongjia Li, Geng Yuan, Wei Niu, Yanyu Li, Xulong Tang, Bin Ren, Yanzhi Wang

Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021 AAAI'21

CoCoPIE: Enabling Real-Time AI on Off-the-Shelf Mobile Devices via Compression-Compilation Co-Design

Hui Guan, Shaoshan Liu, Xiaolong Ma, Wei Niu, Bin Ren, Xipeng Shen, Yanzhi Wang, Pu Zhao (author in alphabet order)

Communications of the ACM, 2021 (Featured Article) CACM'21

An Image Enhancing Pattern-based Sparsity for Real-Time Inference on Mobile Devices

Xiaolong Ma*, Wei Niu*, Tianyun Zhang, Sijia Liu, Sheng Lin, Hongjia Li, Xiang Chen, Jian Tang, Kaisheng Ma, Bin Ren, and Yanzhi Wang

Proceeding of European Conference on Computer Vision, 2020 ECCV'20

A Privacy-Preserving-Oriented DNN Pruning and Mobile Acceleration Framework

Yifan Gong, Zheng Zhan, Zhengang Li, Wei Niu, Xiaolong Ma, Wenhao Wang, Bin Ren, Caiwen Ding, Xue Lin, Xiaolin Xu, Yanzhi Wang

Proceedings of the 2020 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (Special Session Paper), Sep. 2020 GLSVLSI'20

RTMobile: Beyond Real-Time Mobile Acceleration of RNNs for Speech Recognition

Peiyan Dong, Siyue Wang, Wei Niu, Chengming Zhang, Sheng Lin, Zhengang Li, Yifan Gong, Bin Ren, Xue Lin, and Dingwen Tao

The 57th Annual Design Automation Conference, July, 2020 DAC'20

PCONV: The Missing but Desirable Sparsity in DNN Weight Pruning for Real-time Execution on Mobile Devices

Xiaolong Ma, Fu-Ming Guo, Wei Niu, Xue Lin, Jian Tang, Kaisheng Ma, Bin Ren, Yanzhi Wang

The 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February, 2020 AAAI'20

PatDNN: Achieving Real-Time DNN Execution on Mobile Devices with Pattern-based Weight Pruning

Wei Niu, Xiaolong Ma, Sheng Lin, Shihao Wang, Xuehai Qian, Xue Lin, Yanzhi Wang, Bin Ren

The 25th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, March, 2020 ASPLOS'20