Approximate computing survey, Part II: Application-specific & architectural approximation techniques and applications

V Leon, MA Hanif, G Armeniakos, X Jiao… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The challenging deployment of compute-intensive applications from domains such as
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP), forces the community of …

Special session: Approximation and fault resiliency of dnn accelerators

MH Ahmadilivani, M Barbareschi… - 2023 IEEE 41st VLSI …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Learning, and in particular, Deep Neural Network (DNN) is nowadays widely used in
many scenarios, including safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. In this …

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 …

Adam: Adaptive fault-tolerant approximate multiplier for edge dnn accelerators

M Taheri, N Cherezova, S Nazari… - 2024 IEEE European …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiplication is the most resource-hungry operation in the neural network's processing
elements. In this paper, we propose an architecture of a novel adaptive fault-tolerant …

Saffira: a framework for assessing the reliability of systolic-array-based dnn accelerators

M Taheri, M Daneshtalab, J Raik… - … on Design & …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Systolic array has emerged as a prominent archi-tecture for Deep Neural Network (DNN)
hardware accelerators, providing high-throughput and low-latency performance essen-tial …

Deepvigor: Vulnerability value ranges and factors for dnns' reliability assessment

MH Ahmadilivani, M Taheri, J Raik… - 2023 IEEE European …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and their accelerators are being deployed ever more
frequently in safety-critical applications leading to increasing reliability concerns. A …

Special session: Reliability assessment recipes for dnn accelerators

MH Ahmadilivani, A Bosio… - 2024 IEEE 42nd …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reliability assessment is mandatory to guarantee the correct behavior of Deep Neural
Network (DNN) hardware accelerators in safety-critical applications. While fault injection …

Appraiser: Dnn fault resilience analysis employing approximation errors

M Taheri, MH Ahmadilivani, M Jenihhin… - … on Design and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, the extensive exploitation of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in safety-critical
applications raises new reliability concerns. In practice, methods for fault injection by …

[HTML][HTML] Resilience of deep learning applications: A systematic literature review of analysis and hardening techniques

C Bolchini, L Cassano, A Miele - Computer Science Review, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine Learning (ML) is currently being exploited in numerous applications, being
one of the most effective Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies used in diverse fields, such …

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 …