DeepFedNAS: Efficient Hardware-Aware Architecture Adaptation for Heterogeneous IoT Federations via Pareto-Guided Supernet Training

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Main Authors: Khan, Bostan, Daneshtalab, Masoud
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author Khan, Bostan
Daneshtalab, Masoud
author_facet Khan, Bostan
Daneshtalab, Masoud
contents Deploying federated learning across heterogeneous IoT device fleets requires tailored neural network architectures for each device class, yet existing Federated Neural Architecture Search (FedNAS) methods suffer from unguided supernet training and prohibitively costly post-training search pipelines that demand over 20 GPU-hours per deployment target. We introduce DeepFedNAS, a two-phase framework built on a multi-objective fitness function that synthesizes information-theoretic network metrics with architectural heuristics. In the first phase, Federated Pareto Optimal Supernet Training replaces random subnet sampling with a pre-computed cache of elite, high-fitness architectures, yielding a superior supernet. In the second phase, a Predictor-Free Search uses this fitness function as a zero-cost accuracy proxy, discovering hardware-optimized subnets in ~20 seconds, a ~61x speedup over the baseline pipeline. Experiments on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and CINIC-10 demonstrate state-of-the-art accuracy (up to +1.21% on CIFAR-100), a 2.8x reduction in per-round transmission size, and robust performance under extreme non-IID conditions (α = 0.1), making DeepFedNAS practical for scalable, communication-constrained IoT federations. Source code: https://github.com/bostankhan6/DeepFedNAS
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spellingShingle DeepFedNAS: Efficient Hardware-Aware Architecture Adaptation for Heterogeneous IoT Federations via Pareto-Guided Supernet Training
Khan, Bostan
Daneshtalab, Masoud
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Deploying federated learning across heterogeneous IoT device fleets requires tailored neural network architectures for each device class, yet existing Federated Neural Architecture Search (FedNAS) methods suffer from unguided supernet training and prohibitively costly post-training search pipelines that demand over 20 GPU-hours per deployment target. We introduce DeepFedNAS, a two-phase framework built on a multi-objective fitness function that synthesizes information-theoretic network metrics with architectural heuristics. In the first phase, Federated Pareto Optimal Supernet Training replaces random subnet sampling with a pre-computed cache of elite, high-fitness architectures, yielding a superior supernet. In the second phase, a Predictor-Free Search uses this fitness function as a zero-cost accuracy proxy, discovering hardware-optimized subnets in ~20 seconds, a ~61x speedup over the baseline pipeline. Experiments on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and CINIC-10 demonstrate state-of-the-art accuracy (up to +1.21% on CIFAR-100), a 2.8x reduction in per-round transmission size, and robust performance under extreme non-IID conditions (α = 0.1), making DeepFedNAS practical for scalable, communication-constrained IoT federations. Source code: https://github.com/bostankhan6/DeepFedNAS
title DeepFedNAS: Efficient Hardware-Aware Architecture Adaptation for Heterogeneous IoT Federations via Pareto-Guided Supernet Training
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15127