Quantification of the impact of random hardware faults on safety-critical ai applications: Cnn-based traffic sign recognition case study
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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
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2019 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops, ISSREW 2019 |
| Editors | Katinka Wolter, Ina Schieferdecker, Barbara Gallina, Michel Cukier, Roberto Natella, Naghmeh Ivaki, Nuno Laranjeiro |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Pages | 118-119 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 978-1-7281-5138-0 |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2019 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Publication series
| Series | IEEE International Conference on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSRE Wksp) |
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Symposium
| Title | 30th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops |
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| Abbreviated title | ISSREW 2019 |
| Conference number | 30 |
| Duration | 28 - 31 October 2019 |
| Degree of recognition | International event |
| Location | Fraunhofer FOKUS |
| City | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
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Keywords
- Artificial Intelligence, Fault Injection, Random Hardware Faults, TensorFlow, Traffic Sign Recognition