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7 papers

cs.LG2026

CoG-Guided Weight Correction for Fault-Tolerant Deep Neural Networks

Bahram Parchekani, Samira Nazari, Ali Azarpeyvand +3

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) used in safety-critical applications are vulnerable to hardware and memory faults that corrupt network weights and degrade reliability. In this paper, w…

cs.CV2026

Fusion: A Framework for Unified Sequential Token AdaptatIon in VisiOn TraNsformers

Aravind Pradeep, Samira Nazari, Mahdi Taheri +1

Vision Transformers achieve strong image classification accuracy but process all image regions with nearly the same computation, even when many regions are redundant or uninformati…

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HASA: Subnet Allocation for Compute-Constrained Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning

Amir Hossein Shahdadian, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Mahdi Taheri +2

Edge services increasingly use federated learning to personalize on-device models while keeping sensitive data local. In practice, deployments must handle heterogeneity in both cli…

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SENTRY: Statistical Reliability Analysis of Vision Transformers Under Soft Errors

Pramit Kumar Bhaduri, Mahdi Taheri, Samira Nazari +3

With the growth of Vision Transformers in safety-critical domains like autonomous systems and medical imaging, ensuring their reliability against soft errors is paramount. While Vi…

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Mix-and-Match Pruning: Globally Guided Layer-Wise Sparsification of DNNs

Danial Monachan, Samira Nazari, Mahdi Taheri +4

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices requires strong compression with minimal accuracy loss. This paper introduces Mix-and-Match Pruning, a globally guided, layer-…

cs.LG2026

RESQ: A Unified Framework for REliability- and Security Enhancement of Quantized Deep Neural Networks

Ali Soltan Mohammadi, Samira Nazari, Ali Azarpeyvand +5

This work proposes a unified three-stage framework that produces a quantized DNN with balanced fault and attack robustness. The first stage improves attack resilience via fine-tuni…