Cloud-Edge Collaborative Service Architecture With Large-Tiny Models Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

Offshore drilling platforms (ODPs) are critical infrastructure for exploring and developing marine oil and gas resources. As these platforms' capabilities expand, deploying intelligent surveillance services to ensure safe production has become increasingly important. However, the unique geographical locations and harsh environmental conditions of ODPs pose significant challenges for processing large volumes of video data, complicating the implementation of efficient surveillance systems. This study proposes a Cloud-Edge Large-Tiny Model Collaborative (CELTC) architecture grounded in deep reinforcement learning to optimize the processing and decision-making of surveillance data in offshore drilling platform scenarios. CELTC architecture leverages edge-cloud computing, deploying complex, high-precision large models on cloud servers and lightweight tiny models on edge devices. This dual deployment strategy capitalizes on tiny models' rapid response and large cloud models' high-precision capabilities. Additionally, the architecture integrates a deep reinforcement learning algorithm designed to optimize the scheduling and offloading of computational tasks between large and tiny models in the cloud-edge environment. The efficacy of the proposed architecture is validated using real-world surveillance data from ODPs through simulations and comparative experiments.