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20182026
most citedALWANN: Automatic Layer-Wise Approximation of Deep Neural Network Accelerators without Retraining

129 citations · 740 across the 61 of their papers we have counts for

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64 papers

cs.AI2026

MS-Exam-Gen: An Automatic Benchmark Construction Toolkit for Evaluating LLMs on Multiple Sclerosis-MRI Imaging Knowledge

Abdul Basit, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Muhammad Shafique

Biomedical large language model (LLM) evaluation requires auditable assessment of narrow, evolving, source-grounded subspecialty knowledge. Multiple sclerosis MRI (MS-MRI) provides…

cs.CV2026

Rethinking Evaluation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Lesion Segmentation Models

Abdul Basit, Ashir Rashid, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif +1

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease that can significantly reduce the quality of life of a patient. Existing treatment options can only help slow down the progr…

cs.LG2026

Focus Session: Hardware and Software Techniques for Accelerating Multimodal Foundation Models

Muhammad Shafique, Abdul Basit, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif +3

This work presents a multi-layered methodology for efficiently accelerating multimodal foundation models (MFMs). It combines hardware and software co-design of transformer blocks w…

cs.CR2026

PatchBlock: A Lightweight Defense Against Adversarial Patches for Embedded EdgeAI Devices

Nandish Chattopadhyay, Abdul Basit, Amira Guesmi +3

Adversarial attacks pose a significant challenge to the reliable deployment of machine learning models in EdgeAI applications, such as autonomous driving and surveillance, which re…

cs.LG2025

ESM: A Framework for Building Effective Surrogate Models for Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search

Azaz-Ur-Rehman Nasir, Samroz Ahmad Shoaib, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif +1

Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is one of the most promising techniques for designing efficient Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for resource-constrained devices. Surrog…

cs.CV2025

ShrinkBox: Backdoor Attack on Object Detection to Disrupt Collision Avoidance in Machine Learning-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

Muhammad Zaeem Shahzad, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Bassem Ouni +1

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) significantly enhance road safety by detecting potential collisions and alerting drivers. However, their reliance on expensive sensor tech…

cs.CV2024

DECADE: Towards Designing Efficient-yet-Accurate Distance Estimation Modules for Collision Avoidance in Mobile Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

Muhammad Zaeem Shahzad, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Muhammad Shafique

The proliferation of smartphones and other mobile devices provides a unique opportunity to make Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) accessible to everyone in the form of an a…

cs.RO2024

SPAQ-DL-SLAM: Towards Optimizing Deep Learning-based SLAM for Resource-Constrained Embedded Platforms

Niraj Pudasaini, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Muhammad Shafique

Optimizing Deep Learning-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (DL-SLAM) algorithms is essential for efficient implementation on resource-constrained embedded platforms, enab…

cs.LG2024

Democratizing MLLMs in Healthcare: TinyLLaVA-Med for Efficient Healthcare Diagnostics in Resource-Constrained Settings

Aya El Mir, Lukelo Thadei Luoga, Boyuan Chen +2

Deploying Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in healthcare is hindered by their high computational demands and significant memory requirements, which are particularly challe…

cs.AR2024

PENDRAM: Enabling High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Processing of Deep Neural Networks through a Generalized DRAM Data Mapping Policy

Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Muhammad Shafique

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a prominent type of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have emerged as a state-of-the-art solution for solving machine learning tasks. To improve th…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Robust ADAS: Enhancing Robustness of Machine Learning-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems for Adverse Weather

Muhammad Zaeem Shahzad, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Muhammad Shafique

In the realm of deploying Machine Learning-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ML-ADAS) into real-world scenarios, adverse weather conditions pose a significant challenge. Co…

cs.LG2024

Examining Changes in Internal Representations of Continual Learning Models Through Tensor Decomposition

Nishant Suresh Aswani, Amira Guesmi, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif +1

Continual learning (CL) has spurred the development of several methods aimed at consolidating previous knowledge across sequential learning. Yet, the evaluations of these methods h…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

SSAP: A Shape-Sensitive Adversarial Patch for Comprehensive Disruption of Monocular Depth Estimation in Autonomous Navigation Applications

Amira Guesmi, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Ihsen Alouani +2

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has advanced significantly, primarily through the integration of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and more recently, Transformers. However, con…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

MedAide: Leveraging Large Language Models for On-Premise Medical Assistance on Edge Devices

Abdul Basit, Khizar Hussain, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif +1

Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing various domains with their remarkable natural language processing (NLP) abilities. However, deploying LLMs in resource-constrained…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

Studying the Impact of Quantum-Specific Hyperparameters on Hybrid Quantum-Classical Neural Networks

Kamila Zaman, Tasnim Ahmed, Muhammad Kashif +3

In current noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, hybrid quantum-classical neural networks (HQNNs) represent a promising solution that combines the strengths of classical machin…

quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

A Comparative Analysis of Hybrid-Quantum Classical Neural Networks

Kamila Zaman, Tasnim Ahmed, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif +2

Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning (ML) is an emerging field, amalgamating the strengths of both classical neural networks and quantum variational circuits on the current no…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

DefensiveDR: Defending against Adversarial Patches using Dimensionality Reduction

Nandish Chattopadhyay, Amira Guesmi, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif +2

Adversarial patch-based attacks have shown to be a major deterrent towards the reliable use of machine learning models. These attacks involve the strategic modification of localize…

cs.CR2023

ODDR: Outlier Detection & Dimension Reduction Based Defense Against Adversarial Patches

Nandish Chattopadhyay, Amira Guesmi, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif +2

Adversarial attacks present a significant challenge to the dependable deployment of machine learning models, with patch-based attacks being particularly potent. These attacks intro…

quant-ph2023★ 15 cited

A Survey on Quantum Machine Learning: Current Trends, Challenges, Opportunities, and the Road Ahead

Kamila Zaman, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif +1

Quantum Computing (QC) claims to improve the efficiency of solving complex problems, compared to classical computing. When QC is integrated with Machine Learning (ML), it creates a…

cs.CR2023★ 5 cited

Physical Adversarial Attacks For Camera-based Smart Systems: Current Trends, Categorization, Applications, Research Challenges, and Future Outlook

Amira Guesmi, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Bassem Ouni +1

In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of the current trends focusing specifically on physical adversarial attacks. We aim to provide a thorough understanding of the conc…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

SAAM: Stealthy Adversarial Attack on Monocular Depth Estimation

Amira Guesmi, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Bassem Ouni +1

In this paper, we investigate the vulnerability of MDE to adversarial patches. We propose a novel \underline{S}tealthy \underline{A}dversarial \underline{A}ttacks on \underline{M}D…

cs.AR2023★ 15 cited

Approximate Computing Survey, Part II: Application-Specific & Architectural Approximation Techniques and Applications

Vasileios Leon, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Giorgos Armeniakos +4

The challenging deployment of compute-intensive applications from domains such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP), forces the community of computin…

cs.AR2023★ 29 cited

Approximate Computing Survey, Part I: Terminology and Software & Hardware Approximation Techniques

Vasileios Leon, Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Giorgos Armeniakos +4

The rapid growth of demanding applications in domains applying multimedia processing and machine learning has marked a new era for edge and cloud computing. These applications invo…

cs.AR2023

Reduce: A Framework for Reducing the Overheads of Fault-Aware Retraining

Muhammad Abdullah Hanif, Muhammad Shafique

Fault-aware retraining has emerged as a prominent technique for mitigating permanent faults in Deep Neural Network (DNN) hardware accelerators. However, retraining leads to huge ov…