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Gaining the Sparse Rewards by Exploring Binary Lottery Tickets in Spiking Neural Network
Spiking Neural Network (SNN) as a brain-inspired strategy receives lots of attention because of the high-sparsity and low-power properties derived from its inherent spiking information state.
Can Adversarial Examples Be Parsed to Reveal Victim Model Information?
We call this 'model parsing of adversarial attacks' - a task to uncover 'arcana' in terms of the concealed VM information in attacks.
Less is More: Data Pruning for Faster Adversarial Training
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are sensitive to adversarial examples, resulting in fragile and unreliable performance in the real world.
ASSET: Robust Backdoor Data Detection Across a Multiplicity of Deep Learning Paradigms
However, we lack a thorough understanding of the applicability of existing detection methods across a variety of learning settings.
Pruning Parameterization With Bi-Level Optimization for Efficient Semantic Segmentation on the Edge
With the ever-increasing popularity of edge devices, it is necessary to implement real-time segmentation on the edge for autonomous driving and many other applications.
HeatViT: Hardware-Efficient Adaptive Token Pruning for Vision Transformers
While vision transformers (ViTs) have continuously achieved new milestones in the field of computer vision, their sophisticated network architectures with high computation and memory costs have impeded their deployment on resource-limited edge devices.
Efficient Multi-Prize Lottery Tickets: Enhanced Accuracy, Training, and Inference Speed
Recently, Diffenderfer and Kailkhura proposed a new paradigm for learning compact yet highly accurate binary neural networks simply by pruning and quantizing randomly weighted full precision neural networks.
Auto-ViT-Acc: An FPGA-Aware Automatic Acceleration Framework for Vision Transformer with Mixed-Scheme Quantization
Compared with state-of-the-art ViT quantization work (algorithmic approach only without hardware acceleration), our quantization achieves 0. 47% to 1. 36% higher Top-1 accuracy under the same bit-width.
FAIVConf: Face enhancement for AI-based Video Conference with Low Bit-rate
Recently, high-quality video conferencing with fewer transmission bits has become a very hot and challenging problem.
Pruning-as-Search: Efficient Neural Architecture Search via Channel Pruning and Structural Reparameterization
By combining the structural reparameterization and PaS, we successfully searched out a new family of VGG-like and lightweight networks, which enable the flexibility of arbitrary width with respect to each layer instead of each stage.
Location-free Human Pose Estimation
We reformulate the regression-based HPE from the perspective of classification.
Reverse Engineering of Imperceptible Adversarial Image Perturbations
However, carefully crafted, tiny adversarial perturbations are difficult to recover by optimizing a unilateral RED objective.
Automatic Mapping of the Best-Suited DNN Pruning Schemes for Real-Time Mobile Acceleration
Weight pruning is an effective model compression technique to tackle the challenges of achieving real-time deep neural network (DNN) inference on mobile devices.
RMSMP: A Novel Deep Neural Network Quantization Framework with Row-wise Mixed Schemes and Multiple Precisions
Specifically, this is the first effort to assign mixed quantization schemes and multiple precisions within layers -- among rows of the DNN weight matrix, for simplified operations in hardware inference, while preserving accuracy.
ILMPQ : An Intra-Layer Multi-Precision Deep Neural Network Quantization framework for FPGA
Our proposed ILMPQ DNN quantization framework achieves 70. 73 Top1 accuracy in ResNet-18 on the ImageNet dataset.
MEST: Accurate and Fast Memory-Economic Sparse Training Framework on the Edge
Systematical evaluation on accuracy, training speed, and memory footprint are conducted, where the proposed MEST framework consistently outperforms representative SOTA works.
Generating Realistic Physical Adversarial Examplesby Patch Transformer Network
Physical adversarial attacks apply carefully crafted adversarial perturbations onto real objects to maliciously alter the prediction of object classifiers or detectors.
GRIM: A General, Real-Time Deep Learning Inference Framework for Mobile Devices based on Fine-Grained Structured Weight Sparsity
It necessitates the sparse model inference via weight pruning, i. e., DNN weight sparsity, and it is desirable to design a new DNN weight sparsity scheme that can facilitate real-time inference on mobile devices while preserving a high sparse model accuracy.
Achieving on-Mobile Real-Time Super-Resolution with Neural Architecture and Pruning Search
Though recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in single image super-resolution (SISR) tasks with the prosperous development of deep neural networks (DNNs), the deep learning methods are confronted with the computation and memory consumption issues in practice, especially for resource-limited platforms such as mobile devices.
Achieving Real-Time Object Detection on MobileDevices with Neural Pruning Search
Object detection plays an important role in self-driving cars for security development.
Beta-CROWN: Efficient Bound Propagation with Per-neuron Split Constraints for Neural Network Robustness Verification
We develop $\beta$-CROWN, a new bound propagation based method that can fully encode neuron split constraints in branch-and-bound (BaB) based complete verification via optimizable parameters $\beta$.
High-Robustness, Low-Transferability Fingerprinting of Neural Networks
This paper proposes Characteristic Examples for effectively fingerprinting deep neural networks, featuring high-robustness to the base model against model pruning as well as low-transferability to unassociated models.
Mixture of Robust Experts (MoRE):A Robust Denoising Method towards multiple perturbations
To tackle the susceptibility of deep neural networks to examples, the adversarial training has been proposed which provides a notion of robust through an inner maximization problem presenting the first-order embedded within the outer minimization of the training loss.
Beta-CROWN: Efficient Bound Propagation with Per-neuron Split Constraints for Complete and Incomplete Neural Network Robustness Verification
Compared to the typically tightest but very costly semidefinite programming (SDP) based incomplete verifiers, we obtain higher verified accuracy with three orders of magnitudes less verification time.
Achieving Real-Time LiDAR 3D Object Detection on a Mobile Device
3D object detection is an important task, especially in the autonomous driving application domain.
Zeroth-Order Hybrid Gradient Descent: Towards A Principled Black-Box Optimization Framework
In this work, we focus on the study of stochastic zeroth-order (ZO) optimization which does not require first-order gradient information and uses only function evaluations.
Mix and Match: A Novel FPGA-Centric Deep Neural Network Quantization Framework
Unlike existing methods that use the same quantization scheme for all weights, we propose the first solution that applies different quantization schemes for different rows of the weight matrix.
NPAS: A Compiler-aware Framework of Unified Network Pruning and Architecture Search for Beyond Real-Time Mobile Acceleration
With the increasing demand to efficiently deploy DNNs on mobile edge devices, it becomes much more important to reduce unnecessary computation and increase the execution speed.
Fast and Complete: Enabling Complete Neural Network Verification with Rapid and Massively Parallel Incomplete Verifiers
Formal verification of neural networks (NNs) is a challenging and important problem.
Learning to Generate Image Source-Agnostic Universal Adversarial Perturbations
The resulting scheme for meta-learning a UAP generator (i) has better performance (50% higher ASR) than baselines such as Projected Gradient Descent, (ii) has better performance (37% faster) than the vanilla L2O and MAML frameworks (when applicable), and (iii) is able to simultaneously handle UAP generation for different victim models and image data sources.
MSP: An FPGA-Specific Mixed-Scheme, Multi-Precision Deep Neural Network Quantization Framework
To tackle the limited computing and storage resources in edge devices, model compression techniques have been widely used to trim deep neural network (DNN) models for on-device inference execution.
Dirty Road Can Attack: Security of Deep Learning based Automated Lane Centering under Physical-World Attack
Automated Lane Centering (ALC) systems are convenient and widely deployed today, but also highly security and safety critical.
Alleviating Human-level Shift : A Robust Domain Adaptation Method for Multi-person Pose Estimation
Therefore, we propose a novel domain adaptation method for multi-person pose estimation to conduct the human-level topological structure alignment and fine-grained feature alignment.
RT3D: Achieving Real-Time Execution of 3D Convolutional Neural Networks on Mobile Devices
The vanilla sparsity removes whole kernel groups, while KGS sparsity is a more fine-grained structured sparsity that enjoys higher flexibility while exploiting full on-device parallelism.
Bridging Mode Connectivity in Loss Landscapes and Adversarial Robustness
In this work, we propose to employ mode connectivity in loss landscapes to study the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks, and provide novel methods for improving this robustness.
Towards Real-Time DNN Inference on Mobile Platforms with Model Pruning and Compiler Optimization
High-end mobile platforms rapidly serve as primary computing devices for a wide range of Deep Neural Network (DNN) applications.
Multi-Person Pose Estimation with Enhanced Feature Aggregation and Selection
More specifically, a Feature Aggregation and Selection Module (FASM), which constructs hierarchical multi-scale feature aggregation and makes the aggregated features discriminative, is proposed to get more accurate fine-grained representation, leading to more precise joint locations.
A Privacy-Preserving-Oriented DNN Pruning and Mobile Acceleration Framework
Weight pruning of deep neural networks (DNNs) has been proposed to satisfy the limited storage and computing capability of mobile edge devices.
Security of Deep Learning based Lane Keeping System under Physical-World Adversarial Attack
Lane-Keeping Assistance System (LKAS) is convenient and widely available today, but also extremely security and safety critical.
Automatic Perturbation Analysis for Scalable Certified Robustness and Beyond
Linear relaxation based perturbation analysis (LiRPA) for neural networks, which computes provable linear bounds of output neurons given a certain amount of input perturbation, has become a core component in robustness verification and certified defense.
Defending against Backdoor Attack on Deep Neural Networks
Although deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved a great success in various computer vision tasks, it is recently found that they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks.
Towards an Efficient and General Framework of Robust Training for Graph Neural Networks
To overcome these limitations, we propose a general framework which leverages the greedy search algorithms and zeroth-order methods to obtain robust GNNs in a generic and an efficient manner.
RTMobile: Beyond Real-Time Mobile Acceleration of RNNs for Speech Recognition
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) based automatic speech recognition has nowadays become prevalent on mobile devices such as smart phones.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
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AdvMS: A Multi-source Multi-cost Defense Against Adversarial Attacks
Designing effective defense against adversarial attacks is a crucial topic as deep neural networks have been proliferated rapidly in many security-critical domains such as malware detection and self-driving cars.
Towards Query-Efficient Black-Box Adversary with Zeroth-Order Natural Gradient Descent
Despite the great achievements of the modern deep neural networks (DNNs), the vulnerability/robustness of state-of-the-art DNNs raises security concerns in many application domains requiring high reliability.
Block Switching: A Stochastic Approach for Deep Learning Security
Recent study of adversarial attacks has revealed the vulnerability of modern deep learning models.
BLK-REW: A Unified Block-based DNN Pruning Framework using Reweighted Regularization Method
Accelerating DNN execution on various resource-limited computing platforms has been a long-standing problem.
PatDNN: Achieving Real-Time DNN Execution on Mobile Devices with Pattern-based Weight Pruning
Weight pruning of DNNs is proposed, but existing schemes represent two extremes in the design space: non-structured pruning is fine-grained, accurate, but not hardware friendly; structured pruning is coarse-grained, hardware-efficient, but with higher accuracy loss.
Adversarial T-shirt! Evading Person Detectors in A Physical World
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that models the effect of deformation for designing physical adversarial examples with respect to-rigid objects such as T-shirts.
ZO-AdaMM: Zeroth-Order Adaptive Momentum Method for Black-Box Optimization
In this paper, we propose a zeroth-order AdaMM (ZO-AdaMM) algorithm, that generalizes AdaMM to the gradient-free regime.
Reweighted Proximal Pruning for Large-Scale Language Representation
Is it possible to compress these large-scale language representation models?
PCONV: The Missing but Desirable Sparsity in DNN Weight Pruning for Real-time Execution on Mobile Devices
Model compression techniques on Deep Neural Network (DNN) have been widely acknowledged as an effective way to achieve acceleration on a variety of platforms, and DNN weight pruning is a straightforward and effective method.
Protecting Neural Networks with Hierarchical Random Switching: Towards Better Robustness-Accuracy Trade-off for Stochastic Defenses
However, one critical drawback of current defenses is that the robustness enhancement is at the cost of noticeable performance degradation on legitimate data, e. g., large drop in test accuracy.
On the Design of Black-box Adversarial Examples by Leveraging Gradient-free Optimization and Operator Splitting Method
Robust machine learning is currently one of the most prominent topics which could potentially help shaping a future of advanced AI platforms that not only perform well in average cases but also in worst cases or adverse situations.
Non-Structured DNN Weight Pruning -- Is It Beneficial in Any Platform?
Based on the proposed comparison framework, with the same accuracy and quantization, the results show that non-structrued pruning is not competitive in terms of both storage and computation efficiency.
Topology Attack and Defense for Graph Neural Networks: An Optimization Perspective
Graph neural networks (GNNs) which apply the deep neural networks to graph data have achieved significant performance for the task of semi-supervised node classification.
Fault Sneaking Attack: a Stealthy Framework for Misleading Deep Neural Networks
Despite the great achievements of deep neural networks (DNNs), the vulnerability of state-of-the-art DNNs raises security concerns of DNNs in many application domains requiring high reliability. We propose the fault sneaking attack on DNNs, where the adversary aims to misclassify certain input images into any target labels by modifying the DNN parameters.
Interpreting Adversarial Examples by Activation Promotion and Suppression
It is widely known that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples: images with imperceptible perturbations crafted to fool classifiers.
Adversarial Robustness vs Model Compression, or Both?
Furthermore, this work studies two hypotheses about weight pruning in the conventional setting and finds that weight pruning is essential for reducing the network model size in the adversarial setting, training a small model from scratch even with inherited initialization from the large model cannot achieve both adversarial robustness and high standard accuracy.
Progressive DNN Compression: A Key to Achieve Ultra-High Weight Pruning and Quantization Rates using ADMM
A recent work developed a systematic frame-work of DNN weight pruning using the advanced optimization technique ADMM (Alternating Direction Methods of Multipliers), achieving one of state-of-art in weight pruning results.
ADMM-NN: An Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design Framework of DNNs Using Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers
The first part of ADMM-NN is a systematic, joint framework of DNN weight pruning and quantization using ADMM.
E-RNN: Design Optimization for Efficient Recurrent Neural Networks in FPGAs
It is a challenging task to have real-time, efficient, and accurate hardware RNN implementations because of the high sensitivity to imprecision accumulation and the requirement of special activation function implementations.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
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A Unified Framework of DNN Weight Pruning and Weight Clustering/Quantization Using ADMM
Both DNN weight pruning and clustering/quantization, as well as their combinations, can be solved in a unified manner.
Progressive Weight Pruning of Deep Neural Networks using ADMM
Motivated by dynamic programming, the proposed method reaches extremely high pruning rate by using partial prunings with moderate pruning rates.
Defensive Dropout for Hardening Deep Neural Networks under Adversarial Attacks
Based on the observations of the effect of test dropout rate on test accuracy and attack success rate, we propose a defensive dropout algorithm to determine an optimal test dropout rate given the neural network model and the attacker's strategy for generating adversarial examples. We also investigate the mechanism behind the outstanding defense effects achieved by the proposed defensive dropout.
Structured Adversarial Attack: Towards General Implementation and Better Interpretability
When generating adversarial examples to attack deep neural networks (DNNs), Lp norm of the added perturbation is usually used to measure the similarity between original image and adversarial example.
StructADMM: A Systematic, High-Efficiency Framework of Structured Weight Pruning for DNNs
Without loss of accuracy on the AlexNet model, we achieve 2. 58X and 3. 65X average measured speedup on two GPUs, clearly outperforming the prior work.
An ADMM-Based Universal Framework for Adversarial Attacks on Deep Neural Networks
In the literature, the added distortions are usually measured by L0, L1, L2, and L infinity norms, namely, L0, L1, L2, and L infinity attacks, respectively.
Feature Distillation: DNN-Oriented JPEG Compression Against Adversarial Examples
Image compression-based approaches for defending against the adversarial-example attacks, which threaten the safety use of deep neural networks (DNN), have been investigated recently.
On the Universal Approximation Property and Equivalence of Stochastic Computing-based Neural Networks and Binary Neural Networks
Based on the universal approximation property, we further prove that SCNNs and BNNs exhibit the same energy complexity.
Towards Ultra-High Performance and Energy Efficiency of Deep Learning Systems: An Algorithm-Hardware Co-Optimization Framework
Hardware accelerations of deep learning systems have been extensively investigated in industry and academia.
CirCNN: Accelerating and Compressing Deep Neural Networks Using Block-CirculantWeight Matrices
As the size of DNNs continues to grow, it is critical to improve the energy efficiency and performance while maintaining accuracy.
