Edge AI

From Tadpole to Titan: How DEVFT Grows LLMs Like a Brain

If federated fine-tuning feels like trying to teach calculus to a toddler on a flip phone, you’re not alone. While the privacy-preserving benefits of federated learning are clear, its Achilles’ heel has always been the immense cost of training large models like LLaMA2-13B across resource-starved edge devices. Now, a new method—DEVFT (Developmental Federated Tuning)—offers a compelling paradigm shift, not by upgrading the devices, but by downgrading the expectations. At least, at first. ...

Divide, Route, and Conquer: DriftMoE's Smart Take on Concept Drift

Concept drift is the curse of the real world. Models trained on yesterday’s data go stale in hours, sometimes minutes. Traditional remedies like Adaptive Random Forests (ARF) respond reactively, detecting change and resetting trees. But what if the system could instead continuously learn where to look, dynamically routing each new sample to the right expert — no drift detector required? That’s exactly the ambition behind DriftMoE, a Mixture-of-Experts framework purpose-built for online learning in non-stationary environments. Co-developed by researchers at Ireland’s CeADAR, this architecture marries lightweight neural routing with classic Hoeffding trees, achieving expert specialization as a byproduct of learning — not as a bolted-on correction. ...

Smart Moves: How SmartPilot is Revolutionizing Manufacturing with a Multiagent CoPilot

In the rapidly evolving landscape of Industry 4.0, manufacturing environments face significant pressure to enhance productivity, reduce downtime, and swiftly adapt to changing operational conditions. Amid these challenges, SmartPilot, a sophisticated AI-based CoPilot developed by the University of South Carolina’s AI Institute, emerges as a groundbreaking solution, combining predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and intelligent information management into a unified, neurosymbolic multiagent system. What Exactly Is SmartPilot? SmartPilot is a novel, intelligent CoPilot system specifically designed to support and optimize manufacturing operations. Unlike traditional systems that function independently, SmartPilot employs a multiagent architecture that integrates three specialized AI agents into one cohesive and cooperative ecosystem: ...