arXiv:2608. 04035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The wide adoption of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in safety-critical applications raises reliability concerns related to hardware faults.
arXiv:2606. 07620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the growth of Vision Transformers in safety-critical domains like autonomous systems and medical imaging, ensuring their reliability against soft errors is paramount.
arXiv:2609.16742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are increasingly deployed in safety-critical edge applications, where soft errors can silently corrupt inference...
WARD is a runtime‑adaptive Vision Transformer framework designed for edge AI that combines channel‑wise subnetwork partitioning, reliability‑aware continual learning, and dynamic operating‑mode scheduling. It operates two physically isolated subnetworks across four modes—Full‑Precision, Low‑Power, High‑Reliability, and Adaptive—to balance computational cost and fault tolerance while maintaining uninterrupted inference. Implemented on a lightweight FPGA accelerator with minimal area overhead, WARD achieves a network‑level failure rate of 1.79% under high Bit Error Rates and supports rapid mode transitions within a few clock cycles.
TreeFI is a value‑aware statistical fault‑injection technique for FP32 single‑bit faults in deep neural network activations and weights. It partitions each layer’s value distribution into intervals with similar expected bit‑flip behavior using regression trees, then allocates injections across these intervals based on their relevance for failure‑rate estimation. This stratified approach preserves target confidence and error margins while dramatically reducing the required injection budget—up to 72.1× for activations and 11.2× for weights compared to existing baselines.
arXiv:2607. 15753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) used in safety-critical applications are vulnerable to hardware and memory faults that corrupt network weights and degrade reliability.
arXiv:2604. 28118v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformers now underpin critical AI systems across industry and research.
arXiv:2606. 24173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-device fault detection enables real-time diagnostics without cloud dependency, but deploying machine learning models on resource-constrained hardware demands careful tradeoffs between accuracy, latency, and model size.
arXiv:2606. 26492v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep Learning (DL) programs can fail during training for many reasons, and diagnosing the cause is a costly and time-consuming maintenance task.
The paper introduces BLADE, a reliability‑aware method for selecting the boundary between spiking and artificial neural network components in hybrid event‑based object detectors. It jointly optimizes boundary placement and early‑exit settings for reliability, accuracy, execution time, and energy, using fault injection to guide design. Experiments show a 0.691 mAP@0.5 with 15.82 mJ energy when the ANN exits early, and that protecting a single floating‑point exponent bit eliminates catastrophic failures while a fully SNN configuration retains 96.5% reliability under severe faults.
arXiv:2603. 22770v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) in safety-critical edge environments necessitates robustness against hardware-induced bit-flip errors.
arXiv:2607. 11193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To ensure the overall quality of AI-enabled software, not only traditional software components but also AI components need to be tested and repaired.
Vision Transformers (ViTs) increasingly rely on input-adaptive inference, such as token pruning and early halting, to meet energy and latency budgets. This survey examines a recent class of adversarial efficiency degradation attacks that target these mechanisms to increase computation without necessarily degrading accuracy.