Ft-clipact: Resilience analysis of deep neural networks and improving their fault tolerance using clipped activation

LH Hoang, MA Hanif, M Shafique - 2020 Design, Automation & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely being adopted for safety-critical applications, eg,
healthcare and autonomous driving. Inherently, they are considered to be highly error …

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 …

FAT: Training neural networks for reliable inference under hardware faults

U Zahid, G Gambardella, NJ Fraser… - 2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art algorithms for multiple applications,
spanning from image classification to speech recognition. While providing excellent …

An efficient bit-flip resilience optimization method for deep neural networks

C Schorn, A Guntoro, G Ascheid - 2019 Design, Automation & …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural networks usually possess a high overall resilience against errors in their
intermediate computations. However, it has been shown that error resilience is generally not …

Sanity-check: Boosting the reliability of safety-critical deep neural network applications

E Ozen, A Orailoglu - 2019 IEEE 28th Asian Test Symposium …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The widespread usage of deep neural networks in autonomous driving necessitates a
consideration of the safety arguments against hardware-level faults. This study confirms the …

Fidelity: Efficient resilience analysis framework for deep learning accelerators

Y He, P Balaprakash, Y Li - 2020 53rd Annual IEEE/ACM …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a resilience analysis framework, called FIdelity, to accurately and quickly
analyze the behavior of hardware errors in deep learning accelerators. Our framework …

Accurate neuron resilience prediction for a flexible reliability management in neural network accelerators

C Schorn, A Guntoro, G Ascheid - 2018 Design, Automation & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural networks have become a ubiquitous tool for mastering complex classification
tasks. Current research focuses on the development of power-efficient and fast neural …

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 …

On the resilience of rtl nn accelerators: Fault characterization and mitigation

B Salami, OS Unsal… - 2018 30th International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine Learning (ML) is making a strong resurgence in tune with the massive generation
of unstructured data which in turn requires massive computational resources. Due to the …

Deep validation: Toward detecting real-world corner cases for deep neural networks

W Wu, H Xu, S Zhong, MR Lyu… - 2019 49th Annual IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The exceptional performance of Deep neural networks (DNNs) encourages their
deployment in safety-and dependability-critical systems. However, DNNs often demonstrate …