arXiv · 2609.31031
Metacognitive Selective Ensemble for Mobile Systems
Abstract
Deep ensembles improve robustness in mobile sensing, but repeatedly executing many models over continuous sensor streams is costly. Selecting only a few members reduces this cost, yet adaptive selection often requires additional model execution to obtain reliable evidence about inactive candidates. We present MetaSE, an active ensemble framework that exploits short-term persistence in per-model reliability. MetaSE maintains a small active set across windows, uses post-execution evidence to reject unreliable members, and invokes lightweight routing only when replacement is needed. This stateful design accesses the diversity of a larger pool without repeated full-pool evaluation. Across four HAR datasets and four model architectures, MetaSE consistently improves over a fixed three-model ensemble and achieves accuracy comparable to substantially more expensive adaptive and full-ensemble inference. On a Raspberry Pi 4B, MetaSE is 2.7x faster and uses 69% less memory than full ten-model inference.
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Sungmin Lee, Kichang Lee, Joonhee Lee, JaeYeon Park, Songkuk Kim, JeongGil Ko. 2026-09-25. Metacognitive Selective Ensemble for Mobile Systems. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.31031
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