HiFi-LLP: High-Fidelity, Low-Cost Latency Predictors with Confidence for Robust HW-NAS

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11746v1
• Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:05:16 GMT
• Title: HiFi-LLP: High-Fidelity, Low-Cost Latency Predictors with Confidence for Robust HW-NAS
• Abstract summary: We introduce HiFi-LLP, a high-fidelity, low-cost latency predictor based on graph attention networks, augmented with a confidence metric.<n>We propose a hybrid NAS framework that routes low-confidence predictions to HIL, achieving up to 8.6$times$ speedup compared to typical NAS.
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• Abstract: With deep neural networks (DNNs) increasingly deployed on edge devices, hardware (HW)-aware optimization techniques--such as HW-aware compression and HW-aware neural architecture search (HW-NAS)--have become essential. These methods rely on real feedback from the target hardware to tailor DNN architectures for efficient deployment. While the search can be parallelized, latency measurements via hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) remain a bottleneck due to their sequential nature. Recent approaches use latency predictors to replace costly HIL feedback, but challenges persist: (1) platform-specific predictors often require tens of thousands of samples, and (2) inaccurate predictions can mislead the NAS process. To address this, we introduce HiFi-LLP, a high-fidelity, low-cost latency predictor based on graph attention networks, augmented with a confidence metric. HiFi-LLP outperforms prior platform-specific predictors by up to 9 percentage points (p.p.) in the 10% accuracy bound and achieves a Spearman's rank correlation of up to 0.996 across six devices in the LatBench dataset. We further propose a hybrid NAS framework that routes low-confidence predictions to HIL, achieving up to 8.6$\times$ speedup compared to typical NAS while maintaining a competitive Pareto front.

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