MicroNAS: Memory and Latency Constrained Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search for Time Series Classification on Microcontrollers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18384v2
• Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2024 09:54:06 GMT
• Title: MicroNAS: Memory and Latency Constrained Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search for Time Series Classification on Microcontrollers
• Authors: Tobias King, Yexu Zhou, Tobias R\"oddiger, Michael Beigl
• Abstract summary: We adapt the concept of differentiable neural architecture search (DNAS) to solve the time-series classification problem on resource-constrained microcontrollers (MCUs) We introduce MicroNAS, a domain-specific HW-NAS system integration of DNAS, Lookup Tables, dynamic convolutions and a novel search space specifically designed for time-series classification on MCUs. Our studies on different MCUs and standard benchmark datasets demonstrate that MicroNAS finds MCU-tailored architectures that achieve performance (F1-score) near to state-of-the-art desktop models.
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• Abstract: Designing domain specific neural networks is a time-consuming, error-prone, and expensive task. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) exists to simplify domain-specific model development but there is a gap in the literature for time series classification on microcontrollers. Therefore, we adapt the concept of differentiable neural architecture search (DNAS) to solve the time-series classification problem on resource-constrained microcontrollers (MCUs). We introduce MicroNAS, a domain-specific HW-NAS system integration of DNAS, Latency Lookup Tables, dynamic convolutions and a novel search space specifically designed for time-series classification on MCUs. The resulting system is hardware-aware and can generate neural network architectures that satisfy user-defined limits on the execution latency and peak memory consumption. Our extensive studies on different MCUs and standard benchmark datasets demonstrate that MicroNAS finds MCU-tailored architectures that achieve performance (F1-score) near to state-of-the-art desktop models. We also show that our approach is superior in adhering to memory and latency constraints compared to domain-independent NAS baselines such as DARTS.

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