Lightweight Transformer Models for On-Device Fault Detection: A Benchmark Study on Resource-Constrained Deployment
This study benchmarks traditional machine learning methods against lightweight transformer architectures for binary fault detection across three public datasets, evaluating tradeoffs between accuracy, model size, and latency. The research assesses classification performance using F1-score and AUC, while also testing INT8 dynamic quantization and a two-stage adaptive inference pipeline to optimize deployment on resource-constrained hardware.