no code implementations • 4 Dec 2024 • Nouhaila Innan, Alberto Marchisio, Mohamed Bennai, Muhammad Shafique
Predicting loan eligibility with high accuracy remains a significant challenge in the finance sector.
no code implementations • 6 Aug 2024 • Siddhant Dutta, Nouhaila Innan, Alberto Marchisio, Sadok Ben Yahia, Muhammad Shafique
Financial market prediction and optimal trading strategy development remain challenging due to market complexity and volatility.
no code implementations • 7 Jul 2024 • Iqra Bano, Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Shafique
In this manner, our FastSpiker methodology paves the way for green and sustainable computing in realizing embodied neuromorphic intelligence for autonomous embedded systems.
1 code implementation • 14 Apr 2024 • Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Shafique
However, the studies of SNN deployments for autonomous agents are still at an early stage.
no code implementations • 4 Apr 2024 • Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Alberto Marchisio, Fakhreddine Zayer, Jorge Dias, Muhammad Shafique
Toward this, recent advances in neuromorphic computing with Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) have demonstrated the potential to enable the embodied intelligence for robotics through bio-plausible computing paradigm that mimics how the biological brain works, known as "neuromorphic artificial intelligence (AI)".
no code implementations • 4 Apr 2024 • Iqra Bano, Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Shafique
Toward this, we propose a novel methodology to systematically study and analyze the impact of SNN parameters considering event-based automotive data, then leverage this analysis for enhancing SNN developments.
no code implementations • 3 Apr 2024 • Nouhaila Innan, Alberto Marchisio, Mohamed Bennai, Muhammad Shafique
This study introduces the Quantum Federated Neural Network for Financial Fraud Detection (QFNN-FFD), a cutting-edge framework merging Quantum Machine Learning (QML) and quantum computing with Federated Learning (FL) for financial fraud detection.
no code implementations • 16 Mar 2024 • Nouhaila Innan, Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Shafique, Mohamed Bennai
In this study, we explore the innovative domain of Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) as a framework for training Quantum Machine Learning (QML) models via distributed networks.
no code implementations • 15 Feb 2024 • Eugenio Ressa, Alberto Marchisio, Maurizio Martina, Guido Masera, Muhammad Shafique
Towards this, we design a hardware architecture, TinyCL, to perform CL on resource-constrained autonomous systems.
no code implementations • 16 Oct 2023 • Kamila Zaman, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Muhammad Shafique
Quantum Computing (QC) claims to improve the efficiency of solving complex problems, compared to classical computing.
no code implementations • 10 Aug 2023 • Farzad Nikfam, Raffaele Casaburi, Alberto Marchisio, Maurizio Martina, Muhammad Shafique
Machine learning (ML) is widely used today, especially through deep neural networks (DNNs), however, increasing computational load and resource requirements have led to cloud-based solutions.
1 code implementation • 8 Apr 2023 • Alberto Marchisio, Davide Dura, Maurizio Capra, Maurizio Martina, Guido Masera, Muhammad Shafique
In particular, fixed-point quantization is desirable to ease the computations using lightweight blocks, like adders and multipliers, of the underlying hardware.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2023 • Alberto Marchisio, Antonio De Marco, Alessio Colucci, Maurizio Martina, Muhammad Shafique
Overall, CapsNets achieve better robustness against adversarial examples and affine transformations, compared to a traditional CNN with a similar number of parameters.
1 code implementation • 13 Oct 2022 • Farzad Nikfam, Alberto Marchisio, Maurizio Martina, Muhammad Shafique
The experiments show comparable results with the related works, and in several experiments, the adversarial training of DNNs using our AccelAT framework is conducted up to 2 times faster than the existing techniques.
1 code implementation • 11 Oct 2022 • Alberto Marchisio, Vojtech Mrazek, Andrea Massa, Beatrice Bussolino, Maurizio Martina, Muhammad Shafique
Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithms aim at finding efficient Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures for a given application under given system constraints.
no code implementations • 3 Aug 2022 • Alberto Viale, Alberto Marchisio, Maurizio Martina, Guido Masera, Muhammad Shafique
Autonomous Driving (AD) related features represent important elements for the next generation of mobile robots and autonomous vehicles focused on increasingly intelligent, autonomous, and interconnected systems.
no code implementations • 31 Jul 2022 • Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Giuseppe Maria Sarda, Alberto Marchisio, Guido Masera, Maurizio Martina, Muhammad Shafique
The high computational complexity of these networks, which translates to increased energy consumption, is the foremost obstacle towards deploying large DNNs in resource-constrained systems.
no code implementations • 21 Jun 2022 • Alberto Marchisio, Beatrice Bussolino, Edoardo Salvati, Maurizio Martina, Guido Masera, Muhammad Shafique
In our experiments, we evaluate tradeoffs between area, power consumption, and critical path delay of the designs implemented with the ASIC design flow, and the accuracy of the quantized CapsNets, compared to the exact functions.
no code implementations • 27 May 2022 • Alberto Marchisio, Giovanni Caramia, Maurizio Martina, Muhammad Shafique
Recently, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable performances in many applications, while several studies have enhanced their vulnerabilities to malicious attacks.
no code implementations • 18 Apr 2022 • Shail Dave, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Amira Guesmi, Aviral Shrivastava, Ihsen Alouani, Muhammad Shafique
The real-world use cases of Machine Learning (ML) have exploded over the past few years.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2021 • Muhammad Shafique, Alberto Marchisio, Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif
Afterward, we discuss how to further improve the performance (latency) and the energy efficiency of Edge AI systems through HW/SW-level optimizations, such as pruning, quantization, and approximation.
1 code implementation • 1 Sep 2021 • Alberto Marchisio, Giacomo Pira, Maurizio Martina, Guido Masera, Muhammad Shafique
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) aim at providing energy-efficient learning capabilities when implemented on neuromorphic chips with event-based Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS).
1 code implementation • 1 Jul 2021 • Alberto Viale, Alberto Marchisio, Maurizio Martina, Guido Masera, Muhammad Shafique
Our best experiment achieves an accuracy on offline implementation of 86%, that drops to 83% when it is ported onto the Loihi Chip.
1 code implementation • 1 Jul 2021 • Alberto Marchisio, Giacomo Pira, Maurizio Martina, Guido Masera, Muhammad Shafique
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), despite being energy-efficient when implemented on neuromorphic hardware and coupled with event-based Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS), are vulnerable to security threats, such as adversarial attacks, i. e., small perturbations added to the input for inducing a misclassification.
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2020 • Maurizio Capra, Beatrice Bussolino, Alberto Marchisio, Guido Masera, Maurizio Martina, Muhammad Shafique
Currently, Machine Learning (ML) is becoming ubiquitous in everyday life.
no code implementations • 9 Dec 2020 • Alessio Colucci, Dávid Juhász, Martin Mosbeck, Alberto Marchisio, Semeen Rehman, Manfred Kreutzer, Guenther Nadbath, Axel Jantsch, Muhammad Shafique
Training of the policy is supported by Machine Learning-based analytical models for quick performance estimation, thereby drastically reducing the time spent for dynamic profiling.
1 code implementation • 9 Dec 2020 • Rida El-Allami, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Shafique, Ihsen Alouani
We thoroughly study SNNs security under different adversarial attacks in the strong white-box setting, with different noise budgets and under variable spiking parameters.
no code implementations • 12 Oct 2020 • Alberto Marchisio, Vojtech Mrazek, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Muhammad Shafique
We analyze the corresponding on-chip memory requirements and leverage it to propose a novel methodology to explore different scratchpad memory designs and their energy/area trade-offs.
1 code implementation • 19 Aug 2020 • Alberto Marchisio, Andrea Massa, Vojtech Mrazek, Beatrice Bussolino, Maurizio Martina, Muhammad Shafique
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have made significant improvements to reach the desired accuracy to be employed in a wide variety of Machine Learning (ML) applications.
1 code implementation • 16 May 2020 • Riccardo Massa, Alberto Marchisio, Maurizio Martina, Muhammad Shafique
Towards the conversion from a DNN to an SNN, we perform a comprehensive analysis of such process, specifically designed for Intel Loihi, showing our methodology for the design of an SNN that achieves nearly the same accuracy results as its corresponding DNN.
no code implementations • 16 May 2020 • Valerio Venceslai, Alberto Marchisio, Ihsen Alouani, Maurizio Martina, Muhammad Shafique
Due to their proven efficiency, machine-learning systems are deployed in a wide range of complex real-life problems.
no code implementations • 15 Apr 2020 • Alberto Marchisio, Beatrice Bussolino, Alessio Colucci, Maurizio Martina, Guido Masera, Muhammad Shafique
Capsule Networks (CapsNets), recently proposed by the Google Brain team, have superior learning capabilities in machine learning tasks, like image classification, compared to the traditional CNNs.
no code implementations • 2 Dec 2019 • Alberto Marchisio, Vojtech Mrazek, Muhammad Abudllah Hanif, Muhammad Shafique
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first proof-of-concept for employing approximations on the specialized CapsNet hardware.
1 code implementation • 24 May 2019 • Alberto Marchisio, Beatrice Bussolino, Alessio Colucci, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Maurizio Martina, Guido Masera, Muhammad Shafique
The goal is to reduce the hardware requirements of CapsNets by removing unused/redundant connections and capsules, while keeping high accuracy through tests of different learning rate policies and batch sizes.
no code implementations • 4 Feb 2019 • Alberto Marchisio, Giorgio Nanfa, Faiq Khalid, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Maurizio Martina, Muhammad Shafique
We perform an in-depth evaluation for a Spiking Deep Belief Network (SDBN) and a DNN having the same number of layers and neurons (to obtain a fair comparison), in order to study the efficiency of our methodology and to understand the differences between SNNs and DNNs w. r. t.
no code implementations • 4 Feb 2019 • Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Mohammad Taghi Teimoori, Muhammad Shafique
By leveraging this analysis, we propose a methodology to explore different on-chip memory designs and a power-gating technique to further reduce the energy consumption, depending upon the utilization across different operations of a CapsuleNet.
no code implementations • 28 Jan 2019 • Alberto Marchisio, Giorgio Nanfa, Faiq Khalid, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Maurizio Martina, Muhammad Shafique
Capsule Networks preserve the hierarchical spatial relationships between objects, and thereby bears a potential to surpass the performance of traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in performing tasks like image classification.
no code implementations • 2 Nov 2018 • Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Muhammad Shafique
In this paper, we propose CapsAcc, the first specialized CMOS-based hardware architecture to perform CapsuleNets inference with high performance and energy efficiency.
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Hardware Architecture