Testability and dependability of AI hardware: Survey, trends, challenges, and perspectives

F Su, C Liu, HG Stratigopoulos - IEEE Design & Test, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware realization of artificial intelligence (AI) requires new design styles and even
underlying technologies than those used in traditional digital processors or logic circuits …

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 …

Robust machine learning systems: Challenges, current trends, perspectives, and the road ahead

M Shafique, M Naseer, T Theocharides… - IEEE Design & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Currently, machine learning (ML) techniques are at the heart of smart cyber-physical
systems (CPSs) and Internet-of-Things (loT). This article discusses various challenges and …

A low-cost fault corrector for deep neural networks through range restriction

Z Chen, G Li, K Pattabiraman - 2021 51st Annual IEEE/IFIP …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The adoption of deep neural networks (DNNs) in safety-critical domains has engendered
serious reliability concerns. A prominent example is hardware transient faults that are …

Towards energy-efficient and secure edge AI: A cross-layer framework ICCAD special session paper

M Shafique, A Marchisio, RVW Putra… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The security and privacy concerns along with the amount of data that is required to be
processed on regular basis has pushed processing to the edge of the computing systems …

Securing deep spiking neural networks against adversarial attacks through inherent structural parameters

R El-Allami, A Marchisio, M Shafique… - … Design, Automation & …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Learning (DL) algorithms have gained popularity owing to their practical problem-
solving capacity. However, they suffer from a serious integrity threat, ie, their vulnerability to …

Snr: S queezing n umerical r ange defuses bit error vulnerability surface in deep neural networks

E Ozen, A Orailoglu - ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
As deep learning algorithms are widely adopted, an increasing number of them are
positioned in embedded application domains with strict reliability constraints. The …

Neuron fault tolerance in spiking neural networks

T Spyrou, SA El-Sayed, E Afacan… - … , Automation & Test …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The error-resiliency of Artificial Intelligence (AI) hardware accelerators is a major concern,
especially when they are deployed in mission-critical and safety-critical applications. In this …

Soft error tolerant convolutional neural networks on FPGAs with ensemble learning

Z Gao, H Zhang, Y Yao, J Xiao, S Zeng… - … Transactions on Very …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used in computer vision and natural
language processing. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are popular accelerators for …

Improving fault tolerance for reliable DNN using boundary-aware activation

J Zhan, R Sun, W Jiang, Y Jiang, X Yin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we approach to construct reliable deep neural networks (DNNs) for safety-
critical artificial intelligent applications. We propose to modify rectified linear unit (ReLU), a …