A systematic literature review on hardware reliability assessment methods for deep neural networks

MH Ahmadilivani, M Taheri, J Raik… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, in particular, Machine Learning (ML), have emerged to be
utilized in various applications due to their capability to learn how to solve complex …

Approximate computing: Concepts, architectures, challenges, applications, and future directions

AM Dalloo, AJ Humaidi, AK Al Mhdawi… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unprecedented progress in computational technologies led to a substantial proliferation
of artificial intelligence applications, notably in the era of big data and IoT devices. In the …

Deepaxe: A framework for exploration of approximation and reliability trade-offs in dnn accelerators

M Taheri, M Riazati, MH Ahmadilivani… - … on Quality Electronic …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the role of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in a wide range of safety-critical
applications is expanding, emerging DNNs experience massive growth in terms of …

Exploration of activation fault reliability in quantized systolic array-based dnn accelerators

M Taheri, N Cherezova, MS Ansari… - … on Quality Electronic …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The stringent requirements for the Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) accelerator's reliability
stand along with the need for reducing the computational burden on the hardware platforms …

A design methodology for fault-tolerant computing using astrocyte neural networks

M Isik, A Paul, ML Varshika, A Das - Proceedings of the 19th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We propose a design methodology to facilitate fault tolerance of deep learning models. First,
we implement a many-core fault-tolerant neuromorphic hardware design, where neuron and …

Improving reliability of spiking neural networks through fault aware threshold voltage optimization

A Siddique, KA Hoque - 2023 Design, Automation & Test in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spiking neural networks have made breakthroughs in computer vision by lending
themselves to neuromorphic hardware. However, the neuromorphic hardware lacks …

AdAM: Adaptive Approximate Multiplier for Fault Tolerance in DNN Accelerators

M Taheri, N Cherezova, S Nazari… - … on Device and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Neural Network (DNN) hardware accelerators are essential in a spectrum of safety-
critical edge-AI applications with stringent reliability, energy efficiency, and latency …

Exposing reliability degradation and mitigation in approximate DNNs under permanent faults

A Siddique, KA Hoque - … on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is known for enhancing deep neural network accelerators' energy
efficiency by introducing inexactness with a tolerable accuracy loss. However, small …

Approximate Fault-Tolerant Neural Network Systems

M Traiola, S Pappalardo, A Piri… - 2024 IEEE European …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper aims to comprehensively explore challenges and opportunities to design highly
efficient Neural Network (NN) systems through Approximate Computing (AxC) techniques …

Is approximation universally defensive against adversarial attacks in deep neural networks?

A Siddique, KA Hoque - 2022 Design, Automation & Test in …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is known for its effectiveness in improvising the energy efficiency of
deep neural network (DNN) accelerators at the cost of slight accuracy loss. Very recently, the …