Quantification of the impact of random hardware faults on safety-critical ai applications: Cnn-based traffic sign recognition case study

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Beitragende

Abstract

Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence (AI) rapidly enters almost every safety-critical domain, including the automotive industry. The next generation of functional safety standards has to define appropriate verification and validation techniques and propose adequate fault tolerance mechanisms. Several AI frameworks, such as TensorFlow by Google, have already proven to be effective and reliable platforms. However, similar to any other software, AI-based applications are prone to common random hardware faults, e.g., bit-flips which may occur in RAM or CPU registers and might lead to silent data corruption. Therefore, it is crucial to understand how different hardware faults affect the accuracy of AI applications. This paper introduces our new fault injection framework for TensorFlow and results of first experiments conducted on a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based traffic sign classifier. These results demonstrate the feasibility of the fault injection framework. In particular, they help to identify the most critical parts of a neural network under test.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelProceedings - 2019 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops, ISSREW 2019
Redakteure/-innenKatinka Wolter, Ina Schieferdecker, Barbara Gallina, Michel Cukier, Roberto Natella, Naghmeh Ivaki, Nuno Laranjeiro
Herausgeber (Verlag)Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Seiten118-119
Seitenumfang2
ISBN (elektronisch)9781728151380
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Okt. 2019
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Publikationsreihe

ReiheIEEE International Conference on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSRE Wksp)

Konferenz

Titel30th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops, ISSREW 2019
Dauer28 - 31 Oktober 2019
StadtBerlin
LandDeutschland

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • Artificial Intelligence, Fault Injection, Random Hardware Faults, TensorFlow, Traffic Sign Recognition