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(WiP) LLTFI: Low-Level Tensor Fault Injector

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Abraham Chan, Udit Agarwal, and Karthik Pattabiraman. IEEE International Workshop on Software Certification (WoSoCER’21), co-held with the IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2021. [ PDF | Talk ] (Code)
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Towards a safety case for hardware-fault tolerance in convolutional neural networks using activation range supervision

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Florian Geissler, Syed Qutub, Sayanta Roychowdhury, Ali Asgari, Yang Peng, Akash Dhamasia, Ralf Graefe, Karthik Pattabiraman and Michael Paulitsch, AI Safety Workshop 2021, Best Paper Award Nominee (1 of 4) [ PDF | Talk ] (arXIV)
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PID-Piper: Recovering Robotic Vehicles from Physical Attacks

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Pritam Dash, Guanpeng Li, Zitao Chen, Mehdi Karimibiuki, and Karthik Pattabiraman, IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2021. (Acceptance Rate: 16.5%). [ PDF | Talk, Talk Video ] (Code, PID-Piper Videos) Best Paper Award (1 of nearly 300 submissions).
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A Low-cost Fault Corrector for Deep Neural Networks through Range Restriction

Posted on March 10, 2021 by | Comments Off on A Low-cost Fault Corrector for Deep Neural Networks through Range Restriction

Zitao Chen, Guanpeng Li, and Karthik Pattabiraman, IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2021. (Acceptance Rate: 16.5%). [ PDF | Talk , Video] (arXIV, code) Best Paper Award Runner up (1 of 2 among nearly 300 submissions). Incorporated into Intel’s OpenVino2 Framework (More details, Documentation).
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ThingsMigrate: Platform-Independent Migration of Stateful JavaScript IoT Applications

Posted on November 3, 2020 by | Comments Off on ThingsMigrate: Platform-Independent Migration of Stateful JavaScript IoT Applications

Kumseok Jung, Julien Gascon-Samson, Shivanshu Goyal, Armin Rezalean-Asel, and Karthik Pattabiraman, Journal of Software Practice and Experience (SPE). [ PDF ]
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An Empirical Study of the Impact of Single and Multiple Bit-Flip Errors in Programs

Posted on October 20, 2020 by | Comments Off on An Empirical Study of the Impact of Single and Multiple Bit-Flip Errors in Programs

Behrooz Sangchoolie, Karthik Pattabiraman and Johan Karlsson, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). [ PDF ]
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New Wine in an Old Bottle: N-Version Programming for Machine Learning Components

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Arpan Gujarati, Sathish Gopalakrishnan, and Karthik Pattabiraman, IEEE International Workshop on Software Certification (WoSoCER), 2020. Held in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2020. [PDF][Talk]
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Stealthy Attacks Against Robotic Vehicles Protected by Control-based Intrusion Detection Techniques

Posted on August 21, 2020 by | Comments Off on Stealthy Attacks Against Robotic Vehicles Protected by Control-based Intrusion Detection Techniques

Pritam Dash, Mehdi Karimibuiki, and Karthik Pattabiraman, ACM Journal on Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP). Acceptance Date: August 2020. [ PDF ]
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How Far Have We Come in Detecting Anomalies in Distributed Systems? An Empirical Study with a Statement-level Fault Injection Method

Posted on August 14, 2020 by | Comments Off on How Far Have We Come in Detecting Anomalies in Distributed Systems? An Empirical Study with a Statement-level Fault Injection Method

Yong Yang, Yifan Yu, Karthik Pattabiraman, Long Wang, Ying Li, IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2020. (Acceptance Rate: 26%). [ PDF | Talk ] (Code)
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TensorFI: A Flexible Fault Injection Framework for TensorFlow Applications

Posted on August 14, 2020 by | Comments Off on TensorFI: A Flexible Fault Injection Framework for TensorFlow Applications

Zitao Chen, Niranjhana Narayanan, Bo Fang, Guanpeng Li, Karthik Pattabiraman, and Nathan DeBardeleben, IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2020. (Acceptance Rate: 26%) [ PDF | Talk ] (Code)
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