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Proprietary large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied in various scenarios. Additionally, deploying LLMs on edge devices is trending for efficiency and privacy reasons. However, edge deployment of proprietary LLMs introduces new…
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The electric grid is an attractive target for cyberattackers given its critical nature in society. With the increasing sophistication of cyberattacks, effective grid defense will benefit from proactively identifying vulnerabilities and…
Balancing mutually diverging performance metrics, such as end-to-end latency, accuracy, and device energy consumption, is a challenging undertaking for deep neural network (DNN) inference in Just-in-Time edge environments that are…
Transformer models rely on High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources for inference, where soft errors are inevitable in large-scale systems, making the reliability of the model particularly critical. Existing fault tolerance frameworks for…
Edge intelligence enables resource-demanding Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference without transferring original data, addressing concerns about data privacy in consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices. For privacy-sensitive applications,…
To address the risks of increasingly capable AI systems, we introduce a hardware-level off-switch that embeds thousands of independent "security blocks" in each AI accelerator. This massively redundant architecture is designed to prevent…
Edge devices like Nvidia Jetson platforms now offer several on-board accelerators -- including GPU CUDA cores, Tensor Cores, and Deep Learning Accelerators (DLA) -- which can be concurrently exploited to boost deep neural network (DNN)…
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Side-channel attacks are efficient attacks against cryptographic devices. They use only quantities observable from outside, such as the duration and the power consumption. Attacks against synchronous devices using electric observations are…
Whether stemming from malicious intent or natural occurrences, faults and errors can significantly undermine the reliability of any architecture. In response to this challenge, fault detection assumes a pivotal role in ensuring the secure…
Neural network accelerators with low latency and low energy consumption are desirable for edge computing. To create such accelerators, we propose a design flow for accelerating the extremely low bit-width neural network (ELB-NN) in embedded…
The inference phase of deep neural networks (DNNs) in embedded systems is increasingly vulnerable to fault attacks and failures, which can result in incorrect predictions. These vulnerabilities can potentially lead to catastrophic…