Edge-Cloud Computing

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Edge-cloud computing studies how to place and coordinate computation across devices, edge servers, and remote clouds, especially when applications need fast responses or cannot send all data away. Common approaches include task offloading and DNN partitioning, reinforcement-learning schedulers, adaptive model routing, and compression or semantic communication that sends compact features instead of raw data. These methods support settings such as IoT monitoring, vehicles, healthcare, video analysis, and distributed language-model inference, where latency, bandwidth, energy, privacy, and accuracy must be balanced. A central challenge is keeping service quality predictable as networks, workloads, and device capacity change, while validating proposed strategies on realistic hardware and under strict latency and reliability targets.

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  1. Empowering Edge Agents: A Systematic Analysis of Edge-Cloud Collaboration in LLM Agent Execution

    Oct 13, 2026Pengcheng Huang, Zhenghao Liu, Shixin Ren +5Edge-Cloud Collaborative InferenceEdge-Cloud Computing

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · China Mobile Online Services Co., Ltd. Beijing, China

  2. Seamless Deployment of Machine Learning Inference at the Far Edge: An Empirical AWS IoT Greengrass Architecture for Industrial Predictive Maintenance

    Oct 10, 2026Prince Kwabena Appiah Boadu, Jeffery Baafi Kyei, Enoch Kofi Koranteng +1Edge InferenceIndustrial Internet of Things

    Department of Computer Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

  3. Sustainable Cloud-Fog-Edge Systems for Smart Buildings: Algorithmic Adaptation under Memory Constraints and Dynamic Orchestration Strategies

    Oct 9, 2026Mamadou Sow, Christophe CerinEdge-Cloud ComputingEdge Computing

    University Sorbonne Paris Nord LIPN, UMR CNRS 7030 Villetaneuse, France · University Sorbonne Paris Nord LIPN, UMR CNRS 7030 INRIA DATAMOVE Paris/Grenoble, France

  4. DySCo: Dynamic Sharding for Collaborative Edge-Cloud LLM Inference with Depth-Synchronized Batching

    Oct 6, 2026Jingpo Xu, Paul Joe Maliakel, Ivona Brandic +1LLM InferenceEdge-Cloud Collaborative Inference

    University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands · TU Wien Vienna, Austria

  5. Nexus: An Execution Fabric for AI Agents Across Cloud, Edge, and Devices

    Oct 5, 2026Cary Chang, Jialin ZhouLLM Agent ServingRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Nexilume Research

  6. Towards a Cloud Fog Edge System for Smart Building

    Oct 1, 2026Christophe Cérin, Mamadou Sow, Frédéric AndrèsOn-Device TrainingEdge ML

    University Sorbonne Paris Nord LIPN, UMR CNRS 7030 INRIA DATAMOVE Paris/Grenoble, France · University Sorbonne Paris Nord LIPN, UMR CNRS 7030 Villetaneuse, France · National institute of Informatics 2 Chome-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan

  7. ARGOS: Reinforcement Learning-Driven Multidimensional Elasticity for Service Orchestration in the Computing Continuum

    Sep 29, 2026Javier Mateos-Bravo, Sergio Laso, Juan Luis Herrera +3RL ControlOnline Resource Allocation

    Department of Computer Science and Telematics Engineering, University of Extremadura, Spain · Global Process and Product Improvement S.L., Spain · Department of Mechatronics, University of Prishtina, Kosova +2

  8. PORTER: Edge-Cloud Residency for Persistent 3D Scene Graph Memory

    Sep 27, 2026Yue Chang, Yifan Tian, Jiajing Peng +53D SGGEdge Computing

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Guangdong University of Technology

  9. IMPACT: Intent-driven Multi-agent Policy with Attention for SLO-guaranteed Microservice Migration in Cloud-edge Systems

    Sep 21, 2026Xinjin Li, Siru Tao, Shihan Yin +6Edge-Cloud ComputingCooperative MARL

    Columbia University · Carnegie Mellon University · Brandeis University +5

  10. Where Should Agents Live? Energy-Memory Characterization of Agentic AI for the Edge-Cloud Continuum

    Sep 16, 2026Carolina Fortuna, Vid Hanžel, Tim Strnad +1LLM Inference EfficiencyEnergy-Efficient ML

    Department of Communication Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

  11. ECAS: An Edge-Controlled Agentic System for Validation-Gated Scientific Application Execution

    Sep 13, 2026Baixi Sun, Mingze Xia, Huihuo ZhengScientific Workflow AutomationAI for Science

    Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA · Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

  12. Carbon-Aware Routing for Function Calling in Edge-Cloud LLM Systems

    Sep 11, 2026Aikaterini Maria Panteleaki, Varatheepan Paramanayakam, Spyros Tragoudas +1LLM RoutingCarbon-Aware Computing

    School of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering Southern Illinois University Carbondale

  13. EMMI: Edge Multi-Modal Intelligence for Communication-Efficient MLLM Inference via Fused Representation Compression

    Sep 10, 2026Motahare Mounesan, Irfan KhanEfficient Multimodal InferenceEdge-Cloud Collaborative Inference

    Texas A&M University

  14. Smart Adaptive Computing Across the Continuum: LLMs in IoT-Edge-Cloud Resource Management

    Sep 8, 2026Antonino Vaccarella, Lanpei Li, Vincenzo Lomonaco +1Language Model-Based ControlLLM-Guided RL

    Institute of Information Science and Technologies “Alessandro Faedo” (ISTI), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), 56124 Pisa, Italy · Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 56127 Pisa, Italy · Department of AI, Data and Decision Sciences, LUISS University, 00197 Rome, Italy

  15. Streaming Hierarchical Inference with Tabular Foundation Models

    Sep 7, 2026Vitor Crista, Afonso Lourenço, Diogo Martinho +1Tabular Foundation ModelsEfficient Inference

    GECAD, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal

  16. PLATOS: A Power and Latency-Aware Task-Oriented Scheduling Strategy for Healthcare IoT in Fog Computing

    Sep 7, 2026Mohammed Alaa Ala'anzy, Zulfiqar Ahmad, Zhanar MukashInternet of ThingsEdge-Cloud Computing

  17. PPO-STGNN: A Proximal Policy Optimization Approach with Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for DAG Task Scheduling in Cloud-Edge-End Computing

    Sep 3, 2026Yangshuo Qi, Chenwei Wang, Zihan Shen +1Edge-Cloud Computing

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China · Google, Mountain View, USA · NanJing University, NanJing, China

  18. Update for Decisions, Not Freshness: Goal-Oriented Status Updating and Selective Offloading at the Network Edge

    Sep 1, 2026Jianpeng Qi, Qiyang Zhang, Chao Liu +5Partially Observable RLCooperative MARL

    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING, VOL. XX, NO. X, MONTH YYYY 1

  19. Pro-Router: Token-Aware Progressive Model Routing with Adaptive Edge-Cloud Collaboration for Efficient Multimodal LLM Inference

    Aug 28, 2026Xinyuan Gui, Shaowen Wang, Sheng Sun +3Edge-Cloud Collaborative InferenceLLM Routing

    Anyscale · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  20. SPADE: Speculative Decoding for Precise and Low Cost Distributed Edge Cloud Inference

    Aug 13, 2026Divya Jyoti Bajpai, Kishan Kumar Upadhyay, Manjesh Kumar HanawalEdge-Cloud Collaborative InferenceEdge Computing

    MLiONS, Department of IEOR, IIT Bombay Mumbai, Maharashtra-400076, India

  21. A Cloud-Edge System for Multimodal Clinical Screening in Resource-Constrained Rural Settings

    Aug 13, 2026Hei Ting, Chan, Chenwei Wu +8Efficient Multimodal InferenceHealthcare

    Una · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA · Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA +1

  22. Design and Evaluation of an AI-Enabled Cloud-Edge Architecture for Connected Precision Agriculture Farms

    Aug 4, 2026Deckshitha Angadi, Koteshwar Goud Surga, Nagaraju Lakkaraju +6Plant Disease ClassificationEdge Computing

    AI, IoT and Robotics Lab (AIR Lab), UAVs Group, Autonomous Robotics Systems Limited, Hyderabad, India · Department of Microelectronics and VLSI Design, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India · Department of Artificial Intelligence, ThoughtGreen Technologies Private Limited, Hyderabad, India +6

  23. OsteoCAD: A Human-in-the-Loop Cloud-Edge Framework for Bone Tumor Segmentation

    Jul 31, 2026Maximo Rodriguez-Herrero, Dante D. Sanchez-Gallegos, Heriberto Aguirre-Meneses +3Interactive Medical Image SegmentationMedical Image Segmentation

    Department of Computer Science University Carlos III of Madrid, Leganes, Spain · Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitacion “Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra”, Mexico City, Mexico · Cinvestav Tamaulipas, Cd. Victoria, Mexico

  24. The AnyLog Edge Data Fabric

    Jul 30, 2026Roy Shadmon, Mark Davidson, Eric Aquaronne +3Industrial AutomationEdge Computing

  25. LAST: The Last Query Token Guides Visual Token Pruning for Edge-Cloud Collaborative MLLM Inference

    Jul 30, 2026Feng Yang, Xinrui Ju, Keyang Zhang +6Edge-Cloud Collaborative InferenceEfficient VLM Inference

    1City University of Hong Kong · 2Peng Cheng Laboratory

  26. Clustered Edge Intelligence: Beyond Just Convergence of Edge Computing and AI

    Jul 23, 2026Chinmaya Kumar Dehury, Boris Sedlak, Alaa Saleh +4Edge-Cloud ComputingEdge AI

    Department of PComputer Science, IISER Berhampur, Odisha, India · Distributed Systems Group, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria. · Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, 00100 Helsinki, Finland +4

  27. EdgeFaaS: A Function-based Framework for Edge Computing

    Jul 16, 2026Neha Vadnere, Yu-Ting Wang, Yitao Chen +2Edge ComputingInternet of Things

    Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

  28. Hybrid multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for service placement in the computing continuum: a comparative study with genetic traceability

    Jul 14, 2026Sergi Vivo, Carlos Guerrero, Isaac LeraEvolutionary OptimizationMulti-Objective Evolutionary Optimization

    Computer Science Department, University of the Balearic Islands, Crta. Valldemossa km 7.5, Palma, E07122, Illes Balears, Spain.

  29. DynaFilter: Cloud-driven Dynamic Filtering for Satellite Edge Intelligence

    Jul 11, 2026Ziyang Zhang, Jie Liu, Luca MottolaEdge InferenceRemote Sensing

    Politecnico di Milano · Milan, Italy · Harbin Institute of Technology +1

  30. Budget-Adaptive Routing: Skipping the Weak When the Strong Answers Anyway

    Jun 29, 2026Wei Geng, Nitinder Mohan, Jörg OttAdaptive Model RoutingEdge Inference

    Technical University of Munich Munich, Germany · TU Delft Delft, Netherlands