MONAQ: Multi-Objective Neural Architecture Querying for Time-Series Analysis on Resource-Constrained Devices

ACL ARR 2025 May Submission1539 Authors

Abstract: The growing use of smartphones and IoT devices necessitates efficient time-series analysis on resource-constrained hardware, which is critical for sensing applications such as human activity recognition and air quality prediction. Recent efforts in hardware-aware neural architecture search (NAS) automate architecture discovery for specific platforms; however, none focus on general time-series analysis with edge deployment. Leveraging the problem-solving and reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLM), we propose ***MONAQ***, a novel framework that reformulates NAS into ***M***ulti-***O***bjective ***N***eural ***A***rchitecture ***Q***uerying tasks. *MONAQ* is equipped with *multimodal query generation* for processing multimodal time-series inputs and hardware constraints, alongside an *LLM agent-based multi-objective search* to achieve deployment-ready models via code generation. By integrating numerical data, time-series images, and textual descriptions, *MONAQ* improves an LLM's understanding of time-series data. Experiments on fifteen datasets demonstrate that *MONAQ*-discovered models outperform both handcrafted models and NAS baselines while being more efficient.

Paper Type: Long

Research Area: Language Modeling

Research Area Keywords: LLM/AI agents, multimodal applications, code generation, time series understanding, LLM-based neural architecture search

Contribution Types: NLP engineering experiment, Data analysis

Languages Studied: English

Submission Number: 1539