边缘AI必须动态适应环境变化,否则会失效。
Position Paper: From Edge AI to Adaptive Edge AI
- 提出ASE框架,明确边缘自适应的可变要素与约束条件
- 固定模型在长期运行中必然因环境变化导致性能或预算失控
- 适合关注边缘系统持续可用性与鲁棒性的研究者
边缘AI常被理解为在严苛约束下的模型压缩与部署。本文主张更强的运作理念:真实场景中的边缘AI必须具备自适应能力。在长周期运行中,固定配置会面临根本性失效模式:当数据和运行条件随时间演变时,系统要么违反动态预算(延迟、能耗、温度、连接、隐私),要么丧失预测可靠性(准确率与关键的校准性),且风险集中在瞬态和罕见时间段,而非平均表现。若部署系统无法在条件变化时重新配置计算资源甚至模型状态,其仅能提供静态推理,无法维持长期效用。本文提出最小化代理-系统-环境(ASE)视角,精准定义边缘自适应中的四要素:何物可变、何物可观测、何物可重构、何种约束需长期满足。基于此框架,提出未来十年的十大研究挑战,涵盖演化系统的理论保证、动态架构、数据驱动与模型驱动组件的混合切换、故障/异常触发的定向更新、系统1/系统2分解(随时智能)、模块化设计、标签稀缺下的验证,以及量化生命周期效率与漂移/干预下恢复与稳定性的评估协议。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Edge AI is often framed as model compression and deployment under tight constraints. We argue a stronger operational thesis: Edge AI in realistic deployments is necessarily adaptive. In long-horizon operation, a fixed (non-adaptive) configuration faces a fundamental failure mode: as data and operating conditions evolve and change in time, it must either (i) violate time-varying budgets (latency/energy/thermal/connectivity/privacy) or (ii) lose predictive reliability (accuracy and, critically, calibration), with risk concentrating in transient regimes and rare time intervals rather than in average performance. If a deployed system cannot reconfigure its computation - and, when required, its model state - under evolving conditions and constraints, it reduces to static embedded inference and cannot provide sustained utility. This position paper introduces a minimal Agent-System-Environment (ASE) lens that makes adaptivity precise at the edge by specifying (i) what changes, (ii) what is observed, (iii) what can be reconfigured, and (iv) which constraints must remain satisfied over time. Building on this framing, we formulate ten research challenges for the next decade, spanning theoretical guarantees for evolving systems, dynamic architectures and hybrid transitions between data-driven and model-based components, fault/anomaly-driven targeted updates, System-1/System-2 decompositions (anytime intelligence), modularity, validation under scarce labels, and evaluation protocols that quantify lifecycle efficiency and recovery/stability under drift and interventions.
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