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Fault-Aware Training (FAT) has emerged as a highly effective technique for addressing permanent faults in DNN accelerators, as it offers fault mitigation without significant performance or accuracy loss, specifically at low and moderate…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

In this paper we study the problem of how resilient networks are to node faults. Specifically, we investigate the question of how many faults a network can sustain so that it still contains a large (i.e. linear-sized) connected component…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-01 Amitabha Bagchi , Ankur Bhargava , Amitabh Chaudhary , David Eppstein , Christian Scheideler

Miniaturized satellites are currently not considered suitable for critical, high-priority, and complex multi-phased missions, due to their low reliability. As hardware-side fault tolerance (FT) solutions designed for larger spacecraft can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Christian M. Fuchs , Nadia M. Murillo , Aske Plaat , Erik van der Kouwe , Todor Stefanov

Federated Fine-Tuning (FFT) has attracted growing interest as it leverages both server- and client-side data to enhance global model generalization while preserving privacy, and significantly reduces the computational burden on edge devices…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yanmeng Wang , Zhiwen Dai , Shuai Wang , Jian Zhou , Fu Xiao , Tony Q. S. Quek , Tsung-Hui Chang

Training advanced AI models requires large investments in computational resources, or compute. Yet, as hardware innovation reduces the price of compute and algorithmic advances make its use more efficient, the cost of training an AI model…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Konstantin Pilz , Lennart Heim , Nicholas Brown

Various methods are proposed in the literature to mitigate the failures in an infrastructure network. Failure mitigation can be carried out in an active or passive manner. In active manner, live backups provide the required reliability. Due…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Mahdi Soleimani , Vahid Shah-Mansouri

Service systems often face task-server assignment-constraints due to skill-based routing or geographical conditions. Redundancy scheduling responds to this limited flexibility by replicating tasks to specific servers in agreement with these…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Ellen Cardinaels , Sem Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

State-machine replication, a fundamental approach to fault tolerance, requires replicas to execute commands deterministically, which usually results in sequential execution of commands. Sequential execution limits performance and underuses…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Parisa Jalili Marandi , Fernando Pedone

Neural Networks (NN) have recently emerged as backbone of several sensitive applications like automobile, medical image, security, etc. NNs inherently offer Partial Fault Tolerance (PFT) in their architecture; however, the biased PFT of NNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Manaar Alam , Arnab Bag , Debapriya Basu Roy , Dirmanto Jap , Jakub Breier , Shivam Bhasin , Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

Faults are endemic to all systems. Adaptive fault-tolerant control maintains degraded performance when faults occur as opposed to unsafe conditions or catastrophic events. In systems with abrupt faults and strict time constraints, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Ibrahim Ahmed , Marcos Quinones-Grueiro , Gautam Biswas

Reachability analysis, in general, is a fundamental method that supports formally-correct synthesis, robust model predictive control, set-based observers, fault detection, invariant computation, and conformance checking, to name but a few.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Niklas Kochdumper , Bastian Schürmann , Matthias Althoff

A new high-level implementation independent functional fault model for control faults in microprocessors is introduced. The fault model is based on the instruction set, and is specified as a set of data constraints to be satisfied by test…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Adeboye Stephen Oyeniran , Raimund Ubar , Maksim Jenihhin , Cemil Cem Gursoy , Jaan Raik

To cope with the ever increasing threats of dynamic and adaptive persistent attacks, Fault and Intrusion Tolerance (FIT) is being studied at the hardware level to increase critical systems resilience. Based on state-machine replication, FIT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Ahmad T Sheikh , Ali Shoker , Paulo Esteves-Verissimo

Data is replicated and stored redundantly over multiple servers for availability in distributed databases. We focus on databases with frequent reads and writes, where both read and write latencies are important. This is in contrast to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Saraswathy Ramanathan , Gaurav Gautam , Vikram Srinivasan , Parimal Parag

Infrastructure networks such as the Internet backbone and power grids are essential for our everyday lives. With the prevalence of cyber-attacks on them, measuring their robustness has become an important issue. To date, many robustness…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Weisheng Si , Balume Mburano , Wei Xing Zheng , Tie Qiu

Resilient algorithms in high-performance computing are subject to rigorous non-functional constraints. Resiliency must not increase the runtime, memory footprint or I/O demands too significantly. We propose a task-based soft error detection…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Philipp Samfass , Tobias Weinzierl , Anne Reinarz , Michael Bader

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are popular for building machine-learning application for graph-structured data. This widespread adoption led to the development of specialized GCN hardware accelerators. In this work, we address a key…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Christodoulos Peltekis , Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos

A novel approach is suggested for improving the accuracy of fault detection in distribution networks. This technique combines adaptive probability learning and waveform decomposition to optimize the similarity of features. Its objective is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Xinliang Ma , Weihua Liu , Bingying Jin

This short paper describes early experiments to validate the capabilities of a component-based platform to observe and control a software architecture in the small. This is part of a whole process for resilient computing, i.e. targeting the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-04-06 Miruna Stoicescu , Jean-Charles Fabre , Matthieu Roy

Large-scale computing systems today are assembled by numerous computing units for massive computational capability needed to solve problems at scale, which enables failures common events in supercomputing scenarios. Considering the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Li Tan , Nathan DeBardeleben