--- title: SEC 2025 Digest venue: SEC year: 2025 date: '2025-01-01' tags: [] paper_count: 12 draft: false --- 12 papers selected. --- ### lm-Meter: Unveiling Runtime Inference Latency for On-Device Language Models *Haoxin Wang 0003* **TL;DR** — Provides the first detailed runtime profiling framework for on-device LLM inference, revealing key latency bottlenecks across diverse edge hardware configurations. --- ### SLED: A Speculative LLM Decoding Framework for Efficient Edge Serving *Xiangchen Li* **TL;DR** — Adapts speculative decoding to edge serving constraints, reducing LLM token generation latency while respecting the tight memory and compute budgets of edge nodes. --- ### SledgeScale: Load-Aware Dispatch and Deadline-Driven Scheduling for Scalable, Dense Serverless Computing in Edge Data Centers *Xiaosu Lyu* **TL;DR** — Introduces a load-aware dispatch and deadline-driven scheduler for dense serverless edge data centers, demonstrating substantial SLA compliance improvements over baseline policies. --- ### Warping the Edge: Enabling Instant Mobility for Stateful Applications over 5G and Beyond *Mukhtiar Ahmad* **TL;DR** — Achieves near-instantaneous stateful application migration across 5G edge nodes by combining memory snapshotting with network-layer forwarding continuity. --- ### Uncertainty-Aware RL-Based Scheduling of Multi-DNN Workloads on Edge MPSoCs *Soroush Heidari* **TL;DR** — Uses uncertainty-aware reinforcement learning to schedule concurrent DNN workloads on heterogeneous edge MPSoCs, reducing deadline misses under dynamic arrival patterns. --- ### SEEB-GPU: Early-Exit Aware Scheduling and Batching for Edge GPU Inference *Srinivasan Subramaniyan* **TL;DR** — Exploits early-exit branching in DNN inference to build an adaptive batching and scheduling policy for edge GPUs that cuts average latency without sacrificing throughput. --- ### Elastoformer: Enabling Dynamic Adaptivity via Elastic Model Transformation *Sudaksh Kalra* **TL;DR** — Proposes elastic transformer transformations that resize model capacity at runtime to match available edge resources, enabling continuous inference under fluctuating conditions. --- ### PlatformX: An End-to-End Transferable Platform for Energy-Efficient Neural Architecture Search *Xiaolong Tu* **TL;DR** — Presents a transferable NAS platform that searches for energy-efficient DNN architectures deployable across heterogeneous edge targets with minimal re-search overhead. --- ### Bayes-Split-Edge: Bayesian Optimization for Constrained Collaborative Inference in Wireless Edge Systems *Fatemeh Zahra Safaeipour* **TL;DR** — Applies Bayesian optimization to find optimal split points for collaborative inference in wireless edge systems, accounting for dynamic channel and computation constraints. --- ### Energy-efficient DNN Dividing Technique for Latency Optimization in Dynamic Mobile Edge Networks *Eldiyar Zhantileuov* **TL;DR** — Develops a DNN partitioning strategy for mobile edge networks that minimizes end-to-end latency while satisfying energy budgets under time-varying link conditions. --- ### LLM-Driven Auto Configuration for Transient IoT Device Collaboration *Hetvi Shastri* **TL;DR** — Leverages LLMs to automate the configuration of transient IoT device coalitions, reducing manual setup overhead and adapting collaboration policies to changing device membership. --- ### fReeLoaders: An IoT Ecosystem for Real-Time Deadline-Driven Task Scheduling using Reinforcement Learning *Marshall Clyburn* **TL;DR** — Builds a reinforcement-learning scheduler for IoT ecosystems that meets real-time task deadlines by exploiting opportunistic idle capacity across heterogeneous edge devices.