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Approximate computing is emerging as an alternative to accurate computing due to its potential for realizing digital circuits and systems with low power dissipation, less critical path delay, and less area occupancy for an acceptable…
Approximate ripple carry adders (RCAs) and carry lookahead adders (CLAs) are presented which are compared with accurate RCAs and CLAs for performing a 32-bit addition. The accurate and approximate RCAs and CLAs are implemented using a…
Approximate computing is a nascent energy-efficient computing paradigm suitable for error-tolerant applications. However, the value of approximation error depends on the applied inputs where individual output error may reach intolerable…
In a biometric authentication or identification system, the matcher compares a stored and a fresh template to determine whether there is a match. This assessment is based on both a similarity score and a predefined threshold. For better…
Principal components analysis (PCA) is a standard tool for identifying good low-dimensional approximations to data in high dimension. Many data sets of interest contain private or sensitive information about individuals. Algorithms which…
Approximate circuits often achieve exceptional trade-offs between computational accuracy and hardware efficiency, making them attractive for deployment as reusable Intellectual Property (IP) cores. However, safeguarding such circuits…
The design of approximate adders has been widely researched to advance energy-efficient hardware for computation-intensive multimedia applications, such as image, audio, or video processing. The design of approximate adders has been widely…
In error-tolerant applications, approximate adders have been exploited extensively to achieve energy efficient system designs. Mean error distance is one of the important error metrics used as a performance measure of approximate adders. In…
The widespread availability of large-scale code datasets has fueled the rapid development of large language models (LLMs) for code-related tasks. These datasets may include sensitive personally identifiable information (PII), which can lead…
As predictive models are increasingly being employed to make consequential decisions, there is a growing emphasis on developing techniques that can provide algorithmic recourse to affected individuals. While such recourses can be immensely…
The exponential increase in the amount of available data makes taking advantage of them without violating users' privacy one of the fundamental problems of computer science. This question has been investigated thoroughly under the framework…
Transparency and explainability are two extremely important aspects to be considered when employing black-box machine learning models in high-stake applications. Providing counterfactual explanations is one way of fulfilling this…
The "Noisy intermediate-scale quantum" NISQ machine era primarily focuses on mitigating noise, controlling errors, and executing high-fidelity operations, hence requiring shallow circuit depth and noise robustness. Approximate computing is…
It has been proven that quantum adders are forbidden by the laws of quantum mechanics. We analyze theoretical proposals for the implementation of approximate quantum adders and optimize them by means of genetic algorithms, improving…
A critically important component of most signal processing procedures is that of computing the distance between signals. In multi-party processing applications where these signals belong to different parties, this introduces privacy…
Machine learning algorithms, when applied to sensitive data, pose a distinct threat to privacy. A growing body of prior work demonstrates that models produced by these algorithms may leak specific private information in the training data to…
In a large-scale distributed machine learning system, coded computing has attracted wide-spread attention since it can effectively alleviate the impact of stragglers. However, several emerging problems greatly limit the performance of coded…
Privacy preservation in distributed computations is an important subject as digitization and new technologies enable collection and storage of vast amounts of data, including private data belonging to individuals. To this end, there is a…
Given a graph, the densest subgraph problem asks for a set of vertices such that the average degree among these vertices is maximized. Densest subgraph has numerous applications in learning, e.g., community detection in social networks,…
Approximate computing has in recent times found significant applications towards lowering power, area, and time requirements for arithmetic operations. Several works done in recent years have furthered approximate computing along these…