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Reliable edge machine learning hardware for scientific applications
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Reliable edge machine learning hardware for scientific applications

Tommaso Baldi, Javier Campos, Ben Hawks, Jennifer Ngadiuba, Nhan Tran, Daniel Diaz, Javier Duarte, Ryan Kastner, Andres Meza, Melissa Quinnan, …
2024 IEEE 42nd VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), pp 1-5
22 Apr 2024
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Abstract

digital simulation Machine learning algorithms Measurement neural networks Quantization (signal) real-time systems reliability assesment Software algorithms Very large scale integration VLSI VLSI testing Machine Learning Software
Extreme data rate scientific experiments create massive amounts of data that require efficient ML edge processing. This leads to unique validation challenges for VLSI implementations of ML algorithms: enabling bit-accurate functional simulations for performance validation in experimental software frameworks, verifying those ML models are robust under extreme quantization and pruning, and enabling ultra-fine-grained model inspection for efficient fault tolerance. We discuss approaches to developing and validating reliable algorithms at the scientific edge under such strict latency, resource, power, and area requirements in extreme experimental environments. We study metrics for developing robust algorithms, present preliminary results and mitigation strategies, and conclude with an outlook of these and future directions of research towards the longer-term goal of developing autonomous scientific experimentation methods for accelerated scientific discovery.

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