Benchmarking Vendor-Guided Optimizations on Edge NPUs: From NPU Only to End-to-End Performance. Extended technical report

arXiv:2611.13563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Edge NPU performance depends not only on hardware capabilities, but also on model transformation and the overall deployment pipeline. We propose a benchmarking methodology that separates these effects by comparing three configurations: Baseline, Vendor Guided NPU Only (VG-NPU), and Vendor Guided End-to-End (VG-E2E), where VG-NPU preserves common model I/O and host-side processing while VG-E2E follows the vendor-native deployment pipeline. We apply this methodology to four edge NPUs and three vision workloads. VG-NPU improves both accuracy and Run

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