ReD-CaNe: A Systematic Methodology for Resilience Analysis and Design of Capsule Networks under Approximations

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26230%2F20%3APU138604" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26230/20:PU138604 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.00700.pdf" target="_blank" >https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.00700.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/DATE48585.2020.9116393" target="_blank" >10.23919/DATE48585.2020.9116393</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

ReD-CaNe: A Systematic Methodology for Resilience Analysis and Design of Capsule Networks under Approximations

Original language description

Recent advances in Capsule Networks (CapsNets) have shown their superior learning capability, compared to the traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, the extremely high complexity of CapsNets limits their fast deployment in real-world applications. Moreover, while the resilience of CNNs have been extensively investigated to enable their energy-efficient implementations, the analysis of CapsNets resilience is a largely unexplored area, that can provide a strong foundation to investigate techniques to overcome the CapsNets complexity challenge.Following the trend of Approximate Computing to enable energy-efficient designs, we perform an extensive resilience analysis of the CapsNets inference subjected to the approximation errors. Our methodology models the errors arising from the approximate components (like multipliers), and analyze their impact on the classification accuracy of CapsNets. This enables the selection of approximate components based on the resilience of each operation of the CapsNet inference. We modify the TensorFlow framework to simulate the injection of approximation noise (based on the models of the approximate components) at different computational operations of the CapsNet inference. Our results show that the CapsNets are more resilient to the errors injected in the computations that occur during the dynamic routing (the softmax and the update of the coefficients), rather than other stages like convolutions and activation functions. Our analysis is extremely useful towards designing efficient CapsNet hardware accelerators with approximate components. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first proof-of-concept for employing approximations on the specialized CapsNet hardware.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-10137S" target="_blank" >GA19-10137S: Designing and exploiting libraries of approximate circuits</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the 2020 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2020

ISBN

978-3-9819263-4-7

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

1205-1210

Publisher name

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Place of publication

Grenoble

Event location

Grenoble

Event date

Mar 9, 2020

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000610549200220