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arXiv AI By Mahdi Taheri, Samira Nazari, Mubassher Ansari, Ali Azarpeyvand, Mohsen Afsharchi, Maksim Jenihhin, Christian Herglotz

REQAP: Resilient Weight Packing and Quantization for Edge DNN Acceleration

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The paper introduces REQAP, a reliability‑aware quantized weight packing technique for systolic‑array DNN accelerators. It uses a sensitivity‑driven mixed‑precision quantization to assign layer‑wise bit‑widths, a deterministic register‑level packing strategy for SIMD‑within‑a‑register execution, and selective bit‑level protection that replicates critical MSBs into unused register space. Experiments on AlexNet, VGG‑11, and ResNet‑18 show up to 62% memory reduction, 56% fewer MAC operations, and improved accuracy resilience under fault injection compared to baseline and fully protected models.

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