arxivcs.NIcs.AIcs.DC2026-06-29
Budget-Adaptive Routing: Skipping the Weak When the Strong Answers Anyway
Wei Geng, Nitinder Mohan, Jörg Ott
Edge-cloud inference collaborations are often designed with a routing estimator that decides whether to offload each frame from weak models at the edge to stronger models in the cloud. Existing systems place the routing estimator after the weak detector, so the weak forward pass…