Designing Sustainable Federated Learning as a Service using Neural Architecture Search

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14359v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:00:39 GMT
• Title: Designing Sustainable Federated Learning as a Service using Neural Architecture Search
• Abstract summary: We propose a Sustainable Federated Learning as a Service (SFL) framework for heteroge-us sustainable constraints.<n>We introduce a requirement-driven search space that transforms consumer sustainability profiles into a feasible architecture region.<n>We develop a consumer-level carbon feasibility estimation mechanism to evaluate candidate architectures under dynamic carbon conditions.
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• Abstract: The sustainability constraints of FLaaS consumers pose significant challenges to maintaining carbon-feasible federated training in FLaaS environments. These constraints often lead to infeasible consumer participation and unstable federated training under hard carbon constraints. We propose a Sustainable Federated Learning as a Service (SFLaaS), a carbon- constrained Neural Architecture Search (NAS) framework for heteroge- neous sustainable constraints. We introduce a requirement-driven search space that transforms consumer sustainability profiles into a feasible architecture region before federated execution. We develop a consumer-level carbon feasibility estimation mechanism to evaluate candidate architectures under dynamic carbon conditions. We propose a sustainable con- sumer scheduling strategy that adaptively selects feasible consumers and allocates local workloads to preserve consumer participation and statistical data coverage. An evolutionary search strategy jointly optimised for predictive performance, consumer feasibility, and participation coverage under hard carbon constraints. Experiments on real-world datasets and a simulated environment demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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