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Deep neural network (DNN) classifiers are powerful tools that drive a broad spectrum of important applications, from image recognition to autonomous vehicles. Unfortunately, DNNs are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks that affect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Saikat Majumdar , Mohammad Hossein Samavatian , Kristin Barber , Radu Teodorescu

Deep Neural Network (DNN) workloads are quickly moving from datacenters onto edge devices, for latency, privacy, or energy reasons. While datacenter networks can be protected using conventional cybersecurity measures, edge neural networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Mihailo Isakov , Vijay Gadepally , Karen M. Gettings , Michel A. Kinsy

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly applied in safety-critical domains, such as self-driving cars, unmanned aircraft, and medical diagnosis. It is of fundamental importance to certify the safety of these DNNs, i.e. that they comply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Fabian Bauer-Marquart , David Boetius , Stefan Leue , Christian Schilling

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), as valuable intellectual property, face unauthorized use. Existing protections, such as digital watermarking, are largely passive; they provide only post-hoc ownership verification and cannot actively prevent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Han Yang , Shaofeng Li , Tian Dong , Xiangyu Xu , Guangchi Liu , Zhen Ling

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer plenty of challenges in executing efficient computation at edge nodes, primarily due to the huge hardware resource demands. The article proposes HYDRA, hybrid data multiplexing, and runtime layer…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sonu Kumar , Komal Gupta , Gopal Raut , Mukul Lokhande , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

The recent breakthroughs in deep neural networks (DNNs) have spurred a tremendously increased demand for DNN accelerators. However, designing DNN accelerators is non-trivial as it often takes months/years and requires cross-disciplinary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Yang Zhao , Chaojian Li , Yue Wang , Pengfei Xu , Yongan Zhang , Yingyan Lin

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed across distributed and resource-constrained platforms, such as System-on-Chip (SoC) accelerators and edge-cloud systems. DNNs are often partitioned and executed across heterogeneous…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mukta Debnath , Krishnendu Guha , Debasri Saha , Amlan Chakrabarti , Susmita Sur-Kolay

Deep neural networks have evolved remarkably over the past few years and they are currently the fundamental tools of many intelligent systems. At the same time, the computational complexity and resource consumption of these networks also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Jian Cheng , Peisong Wang , Gang Li , Qinghao Hu , Hanqing Lu

Securing deep neural networks (DNNs) is a problem of significant interest since an ML model incorporates high-quality intellectual property, features of data sets painstakingly collated by mechanical turks, and novel methods of training on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Nivedita Shrivastava , Smruti R. Sarangi

Customized hardware accelerators have been developed to provide improved performance and efficiency for DNN inference and training. However, the existing hardware accelerators may not always be suitable for handling various DNN models as…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Xiaofan Zhang , Hanchen Ye , Deming Chen

Low-latency, energy-efficient deep neural networks (DNNs) inference are critical for edge applications, where traditional cloud-based deployment suffers from high latency and security risks. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) offer a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zeyu Guo

Energy efficiency of hardware accelerators of deep neural networks (DNN) can be improved by introducing approximate arithmetic circuits. In order to quantify the error introduced by using these circuits and avoid the expensive hardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Filip Vaverka , Vojtech Mrazek , Zdenek Vasicek , Lukas Sekanina

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) is a computationally expensive job, which can take weeks or months even with high performance GPUs. As a remedy for this challenge, community has started exploring the use of more efficient data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Seock-Hwan Noh , Jahyun Koo , Seunghyun Lee , Jongse Park , Jaeha Kung

With the popularity of the deep neural network (DNN), hardware accelerators are demanded for real time execution. However, lengthy design process and fast evolving DNN models make hardware evaluation hard to meet the time to market need.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Chih-Chyau Yang , Tian-Sheuan Chang

In this paper, we present a novel technique to search for hardware architectures of accelerators optimized for end-to-end training of deep neural networks (DNNs). Our approach addresses both single-device and distributed pipeline and tensor…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Muhammad Adnan , Amar Phanishayee , Janardhan Kulkarni , Prashant J. Nair , Divya Mahajan

Deep neural network (DNN) inference relies increasingly on specialized hardware for high computational efficiency. This work introduces a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based dynamically configurable accelerator featuring systolic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Anastasios Petropoulos , Theodore Antonakopoulos

In the modern global Integrated Circuit (IC) supply chain, protecting intellectual property (IP) is a complex challenge, and balancing IP loss risk and added cost for theft countermeasures is hard to achieve. Using embedded configurable…

As Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) continue to drive advancements in artificial intelligence, the design of hardware accelerators faces growing concerns over embodied carbon footprint due to complex fabrication processes. 3D integration…

Deep neural networks (DNN) have demonstrated effectiveness for various applications such as image processing, video segmentation, and speech recognition. Running state-of-the-art DNNs on current systems mostly relies on either…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Mohsen Imani , Mohammad Samragh , Yeseong Kim , Saransh Gupta , Farinaz Koushanfar , Tajana Rosing

The emergence of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in mission- and safety-critical applications brings their reliability to the front. High performance demands of DNNs require the use of specialized hardware accelerators. Systolic array…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Natalia Cherezova , Artur Jutman , Maksim Jenihhin