The paper demonstrates that undervolting GPUs during CNN training introduces stochastic faults that act as implicit regularization, improving adversarial robustness while reducing power consumption. Experiments on LeNet, VGG-6, and MobileNetV3 trained on MNIST and CIFAR-10 show that undervolted models consistently outperform nominal-voltage models in both standard and adversarial training regimes. The approach offers a hardware-level defense that requires no algorithmic changes and yields significant energy savings due to the quadratic relationship between dynamic power and supply voltage.
By Behnam Omidi, Ahmad Tahmasivand, Husam Alsyouri, Saba Al-Sayouri, Chongzhou Fang, Ihsen Alouani, Khaled N. Khasawneh
TEE-X is a TEE‑aware acceleration framework designed to run large vision models, such as Vision Transformers, entirely within Trusted Execution Environments. It introduces a sensitivity‑aware modularization technique and vectorization to overcome memory constraints and latency challenges on edge devices. The framework is validated on OP‑TEE for Arm TrustZone and optimized for the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier, achieving GPU‑level inference latency with minimal accuracy‑latency trade‑offs.
By Kurt M Wilson, Mohaiminul Al Nahian, Abeer Matar A. Almalky, Sadat Shahriyar, Souvik Kundu, Zhishan Guo, Abdullah Al Arafat, Adnan Siraj Rakin
arXiv:2607. 12868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning systems often fail due to subtle implementation faults that alter training behavior.
By Sigma Jahan
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.
By Noam Bires, Marcello Traiola, Angeliki Kritikakou, Elisa Fromont
arXiv:2606. 02267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples poses a significant challenge for real-world deployment.
By Nicolas Stalder, Benjamin F. Grewe, Matteo Saponati, Pau Vilimelis Aceituno
arXiv:2608. 11770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Edge-deployed vision systems in target recognition, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and drone domains require hierarchical inference pipelines where a detection model identifies objects of interest and downstream classifiers provide fine-grained attribute analysis.
By Vaishnav Raju
arXiv:2304. 03388v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become ubiquitous for their ability to solve problems across various domains, including computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition.
By Raja Hasnain Anwar, Jonah O'Brien Weiss, Tiago Alves, Sandip Kundu
arXiv:2608. 04173v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep neural networks (DNNs) deployed on resource-constrained neuromorphic hardware face three concurrent challenges: the need for model compression through pruning, vulnerability to adversarial input perturbations, and susceptibility to hardware-induced weight faults such as stuck-at-zero errors.
By Manali Dangarikar, Cory Merkel
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.
By Mohammad Hasan Ahmadilivani, Sven-Markus Loorits, Jaan Raik
arXiv:2512. 06208v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inference of standard convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on FPGAs often incurs high latency and a long initiation interval due to the deep nested loops required to densely convolve every input pixel regardless of its feature value.
By Ho Fung Tsoi, Dylan Rankin, Vladimir Loncar, Philip Harris
arXiv:2608.20725v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Convolution is a principal computational bottleneck in deep neural networks, and its efficiency depends on tight integration between algorithms and G...
By Xiang Fu, Jixiang Ma, Xinpeng Zhang, Peng Zhao, Shuai Lu, Xu Tony Liu
arXiv:2608. 10506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate pre-deployment estimation of CNN inference cost--energy, latency, and peak memory--is increasingly critical as models are deployed on resource-constrained GPU platforms.
By Linh Nguyen, Zhixin Pan