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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 10, 2026
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EMMI is a proposed edge-server architecture for multimodal large language model inference that compresses heterogeneous sensor data into compact latent representations at the edge before transmission. The preprint reports a 32-fold reduction in communication payload and up to 3.4-fold reduction in end-to-end inference latency on a representative benchmark while maintaining comparable downstream accuracy; however, the work has not been peer reviewed and lacks controlled comparison against alternative compression or partitioning strategies.
Preprint. Representative multimodal benchmark (specific composition not detailed).. Intervention: EMMI: modality-specific encoding, cross-modal representation fusion, and learned compression at edge; compact latent representation transmitted to server for MLLM inference..
Communication payload reduced by 32x while maintaining comparable downstream accuracy Up to 3.4x reduction in estimated end-to-end inference latency under bandwidth-constrained edge conditions
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Recent advances in multimodal large language mod- els (MLLMs) have opened new opportunities for edge intelligence by enabling reasoning across heterogeneous sensor modalities, such as vision, text, and telemetry data. However, deploying these capabilities on resource-constrained edge platforms remains challenging due to the substantial computational, memory, and communication demands of modern MLLMs. Rather than transmitting raw sensor observations or partitioning neural networks at intermediate layers, Edge Multi-Modal Intelligence (EMMI) communicates a compact representation between edge devices and server resources, enabling communication-efficient edge MLLM inference. To achieve this, EMMI performs modality-specific encoding, cross-modal representation fusion, and learned compression at the edge, transmitting only a compact latent representation to server-side resources for high-capacity MLLM reasoning. This representation-centric design reduces communication overhead, preserves local data privacy, and provides a fixed-size interface between heterogeneous edge devices and server-side MLLMs. Evaluation on a representative multimodal benchmark demonstrates that EMMI can reduce the communication payload by 32x while maintaining comparable downstream accuracy, resulting in up to a 3.4x reduction in estimated end-to-end inference latency under bandwidth-constrained edge conditions.
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