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Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence Accelerators Enables Edge AI on Wearables

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Researchers at Nokia Bell Laboratories have developed a breakthrough technology that enables artificial intelligence (AI) to run on wearable devices, offering reduced latency, lower power cost, and improved privacy. The innovation, called Synergy, provides device-agnostic programming interfaces to AI apps, giving the system visibility and controllability over the app's resource use. This enables the creation of various execution plans for each app, considering AI accelerator availability and intelligently selecting the best set of execution plans to maximize inference throughput.

Synergy's evaluations with 7 baselines and 8 models demonstrate a significant improvement in throughput, reducing latency by 73.9% and power consumption by 15.8%, compared to the baselines. This breakthrough has the potential to open exciting opportunities for various AI apps to run directly on the body, revolutionizing the way we interact with technology.

Key Takeaways:

  • Synergy is a breakthrough technology that enables AI to run on wearable devices, offering reduced latency, lower power cost, and improved privacy.
  • Synergy provides device-agnostic programming interfaces to AI apps, giving the system visibility and controllability over the app's resource use.
  • The technology creates various execution plans for each app, considering AI accelerator availability and intelligently selecting the best set of execution plans to maximize inference throughput.
  • Synergy's evaluations demonstrate a 23.0x improvement in throughput, reducing latency by 73.9% and power consumption by 15.8%, compared to the baselines.
  • The technology has the potential to open exciting opportunities for various AI apps to run directly on the body, revolutionizing the way we interact with technology.
  • Researchers at Nokia Bell Laboratories have developed the Synergy technology, including Chulhong Min, Taesik Gong, SiYoung Jang, Utku Gunay Acer, and Fahim Kawsar.
  • According to the researchers, the technology can be used to develop various AI-enabled wearable devices, such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.

Statistics:

  • Synergy achieves a 23.0x improvement in throughput.
  • The technology reduces latency by 73.9% and power consumption by 15.8%.
  • The evaluations were conducted with 7 baselines and 8 models.
  • The results demonstrate the potential of Synergy to revolutionize the way we interact with technology.

Sources:

  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2025;24(10):9319-9333.
  • Synergy: Towards On-body AI Via Tiny AI Accelerator Collaboration On Wearables.
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - www.ieee.org/
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing - ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=7755

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