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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Tiny Machine Learning and On-Device Inference: A Survey of Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions.

Soroush Heydari, Qusay H Mahmoud

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Soroush HeydariDepartment of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5, Canada.ORCID 0009-0009-0828-1015
Qusay H MahmoudDepartment of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0472-5757

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada 2022-04487
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The growth in artificial intelligence and its applications has led to increased data processing and inference requirements. Traditional cloud-based inference solutions are often used but may prove inadequate for applications requiring near-instantaneous response times. This review examines Tiny Machine Learning, also known as TinyML, as an alternative to cloud-based inference. The review focuses on applications where transmission delays make traditional Internet of Things (IoT) approaches impractical, thus necessitating a solution that uses TinyML and on-device inference. This study, which follows the PRISMA guidelines, covers TinyML's use cases for real-world applications by analyzing experimental studies and synthesizing current research on the characteristics of TinyML experiments, such as machine learning techniques and the hardware used for experiments. This review identifies existing gaps in research as well as the means to address these gaps. The review findings suggest that TinyML has a strong record of real-world usability and offers advantages over cloud-based inference, particularly in environments with bandwidth constraints and use cases that require rapid response times. This review discusses the implications of TinyML's experimental performance for future research on TinyML applications.

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edge AIedge computingembedded MLembedded systemsIoTresource-constrained devicessensorsTinyML

Identifiers

PMID40431982
PMCPMC12115890

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