Edge ML

This paper presents webmcu-vision-web, a single-file, zero-install browser application for end-to-end TinyML vision model training and deployment on the Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense (XIAO ML Kit, $15--40 USD). Acting as a browser-based companion to the on-device Arduino firmware of Paper 1 [1], it provides a private, fully local machine learning pipeline, from firmware flashing through image collection, CNN training, weight export, and live activation visualization, without any software installation beyond a Chromium-based browser. The system targets educators, small businesses, and researchers who need to train task-specific visual classifiers under their exact deployment conditions. Key capabilities include: in-browser firmware flashing via esptool-js; an SD card file browser with image preview and inline editing; config.json live-sync for zero-recompile hyperparameter adjustment; webcam and ESP32 OV2640 camera image capture; TensorFlow.js CNN training completing a three-class run (~30 images per class, 20 epochs) in approximately 1 minute browser-side versus 9 minutes on-device, enabling a complete collect-train-deploy cycle in under 10 minutes; weight export as myWeights.bin and myWeights.h; confusion matrix; and a live Conv2 activation heatmap streamed from the ESP32 during inference. No data leaves the local machine at any stage. A five-run consistency evaluation on the three-class reference problem (0Blank, 1Cup, 2Pen) demonstrates stable convergence with mean accuracy and standard deviation reported; all artefacts are released at the repository link below. The repository is a living template for LLM-assisted adaptation to new hardware and tasks. All source code is MIT-licensed at https://github.com/webmcu-ai/webmcu-vision-web.

Physical neural networks offer a transformative route to edge intelligence, providing superior inference speed and energy efficiency compared to conventional digital architectures. However, realizing scalable, end-to-end, fully analog recurrent neural networks for temporal information processing remains challenging due to the difficulty of faithfully mapping trained network models onto physical hardware. Here we present a fully analog resonant recurrent neural network (R$^2$NN) implemented via a metacircuit architecture composed of coupled electrical local resonators. A reformulated mechanical-electrical analogy establishes a direct mapping between the R$^2$NN model and metacircuit elements, enabling accurate physical implementation of trained neural network parameters. By integrating jointly trainable global resistive coupling and local resonances, which generate effective frequency-dependent negative resistances, the architecture shapes an impedance landscape that steers currents along frequency-selective pathways. This mechanism enables direct extraction of discriminative spectral features, facilitating real-time temporal classification of raw analog inputs while bypassing analog-to-digital conversion. We demonstrate the cross-domain versatility of this framework using integrated hardware for tactile perception, speech recognition, and condition monitoring. This work establishes a scalable, fully analog paradigm for intelligent temporal processing and paves the way for low-latency, resource-efficient physical neural hardware for edge intelligence.

Edge AI model deployment is a multi-stage engineering process involving model conversion, operator compatibility handling, quantization calibration, runtime integration, and accuracy validation. In practice, this workflow is long, failure-prone, and heavily dependent on deployment expertise, particularly when targeting hardware-specific inference runtimes. This technical report presents AIPC (AI Porting Conversion), an AI agent-driven approach for constrained automation of AI model deployment. AIPC decomposes deployment into standardized, verifiable stages and injects deployment-domain knowledge into agent execution through Agent Skills, helper scripts, and a stage-wise validation loop. This design reduces both the expertise barrier and the engineering time required for hardware deployment. Using Qualcomm AI Runtime (QAIRT) as the primary scenario, this report examines automated deployment across representative vision, multimodal, and speech models. In the cases covered here, AIPC can complete deployment from PyTorch to runnable QNN/SNPE inference within 7-20 minutes for structurally regular vision models, with indicative API costs roughly in the range of USD 0.7-10. For more complex models involving less-supported operators, dynamic shapes, or autoregressive decoding structures, fully automated deployment may still require further advances, but AIPC already provides practical support for execution, failure localization, and bounded repair.

The proliferation of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices has led to an unprecedented volume of multivariate time series (MTS) data, requiring efficient and accurate processing for timely decision-making in resource-constrained edge environments. Hyperdimensional (HD) computing, with its inherent efficiency and parallelizability, has shown promise in classification tasks but struggles to capture complex temporal patterns, while Transformers excel at sequence modeling but incur high computational and memory overhead. We introduce BiHDTrans, an efficient neurosymbolic binary hyperdimensional Transformer that integrates self-attention into the HD computing paradigm, unifying the representational efficiency of HD computing with the temporal modeling power of Transformers. Empirically, BiHDTrans outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) HD computing models by at least 14.47% and achieves 6.67% higher accuracy on average than SOTA binary Transformers. With hardware acceleration on FPGA, our pipelined implementation leverages the independent and identically distributed properties of high-dimensional representations, delivering 39.4 times lower inference latency than SOTA binary Transformers. Theoretical analysis shows that binarizing in holographic high-dimensional space incurs significantly less information distortion than directly binarizing neural networks, explaining BiHDTrans's superior accuracy. Furthermore, dimensionality experiments confirm that BiHDTrans remains competitive even with a 64% reduction in hyperspace dimensionality, surpassing SOTA binary Transformers by 1-2% in accuracy with 4.4 times less model size, as well as further reducing the latency by 49.8% compare to the full-dimensional baseline. Together, these contributions bridge the gap between the expressiveness of Transformers and the efficiency of HD computing, enabling accurate, scalable, and low-latency MTS classification.