๐ฏ Study Overview: - Model: RexBERT (ModernBERT for E-commerce) - Focus: Real-world deployment viability and performance analysis
๐ Key Performance Metrics:
Latency Results: - NPU (Best): 4.74ms average - GPU: 12.56ms average - CPU: 35.16ms average
NPU Advantage: 16.98x speedup over CPU
Memory Efficiency: - Model Size: 568.96 MB (compressed for mobile) - Runtime Memory: 299.01 MB peak consumption - Load Memory Range: 285 MB - 1,072 MB across devices
Accuracy Preservation: - FP16 Precision: 63.72 dB - Quantized Mode: Available with minimal accuracy loss - Inference Quality: Production-grade maintained
Transformer models are viable for real-time mobile applications NPU acceleration provides the breakthrough needed for practical deployment Mobile-first AI architecture is now technically feasible The performance gap between cloud and edge inference is rapidly closing
๐ Real-World Applications Enabled:
E-commerce Intelligence: - Instant product search and discovery - Real-time semantic matching - Context-aware recommendations - Natural language query processing
YOLOv11 Complete On-device Study - {NPU vs GPU vs CPU} Across All Model Variants
We've just completed comprehensive benchmarking of the entire YOLOv11 family on ZETIC.MLange. Here's what every ML engineer needs to know.
๐ Key Findings Across 5 Model Variants (XL to Nano):
1. NPU Dominance in Efficiency: - YOLOv11n: 1.72ms on NPU vs 53.60ms on CPU (31x faster) - Memory footprint: 0-65MB across all variants - Consistent sub-10ms inference even on XL models
2. The Sweet Spot - YOLOv11s: - NPU: 3.23ms @ 95.57% mAP - Perfect balance: 36MB model, production-ready speed - 10x faster than GPU, 30x faster than CPU
3. Surprising Discovery: Medium models (YOLOv11m) show unusual GPU performance patterns - NPU outperforms GPU by 4x (9.55ms vs 35.82ms), suggesting current GPU kernels aren't optimized for mid-size architectures.
4. Production Insights: - XL/Large: GPU still competitive for batch processing - Small/Nano: NPU absolutely crushes everything else - Memory scaling: Linear from 10MB (Nano) to 217MB (XL) - Accuracy plateau: 95.5-95.7% mAP across S/M/L variants
Real-world Impact: For edge deployment, YOLOv11s on NPU delivers server-level accuracy at embedded speeds. This changes everything for real-time applications.
The data speaks for itself. NPUs aren't the future - they're the present for efficient inference. Which variant fits your use case? Let's discuss in the comments.
๐ Technical Implementation: (Runnable with Copy & Paste at the MLange link!)
๐ Device Compatibility Matrix: Tested on 50+ devices including Samsung Galaxy series, Google Pixel lineup, and Xiaomi devices, iPhones and iPads. Consistent sub-5ms performance across the board!
๐ Applications Unlocked: - Real-time AR/VR face tracking - Privacy-preserving edge authentication - Live video processing pipelines - Mobile security applications - Interactive camera filters
The democratization of high-performance computer vision on mobile devices is happening NOW! This study proves that complex CV models can run efficiently on consumer hardware without compromising accuracy. Want to reproduce these results? Check out the benchmark methodology and implementation guide!
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Original jokes are particularly hard for LLMs, as jokes are very nuanced and a lot of context is needed to understand if something is "funny". Something that can only reliably be measured using humans.
LLMs are not equally good at generating jokes in every language. Generated English jokes turned out to be way funnier than the Japanese ones. 46% of English-speaking voters on average found the generated joke funny. The same statistic for other languages:
There is not much variance in generation quality among models for any fixed language. But still Claude Sonnet 4 slightly outperforms others in Vietnamese, Arabic and Japanese and Gemini 2.5 Flash in Portuguese and English
# Video Tokenization โ for efficient AI video processing
Meet ๐๐ข๐๐๐จ๐ค, a new open-source video tokenization technique developed by Microsoft Research to address the computational challenges of processing large volumes of video data. The core problem VidTok tackles is the inefficiency caused by redundant information in raw video pixels.
VidTok converts complex video footage into compact, structured units called tokens, making it easier and more efficient for AI systems to analyze, understand, and generate video content.