4 papers
CARB: A Characterization-Guided Framework for CNN Inference Cost Prediction and Deployment Screening
Linh Nguyen, Zhixin Pan
Accurate pre-deployment estimation of CNN inference cost--energy, latency, and peak memory--is increasingly critical as models are deployed on resource-constrained GPU platforms. E…
HISA: Efficient Hierarchical Indexing for Fine-Grained Sparse Attention
Yufei Xu, Fanxu Meng, Fan Jiang +11
Token-level sparse attention mechanisms, exemplified by DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), achieve fine-grained key selection by scoring every historical key for each query through a…
SAND: A Self-supervised and Adaptive NAS-Driven Framework for Hardware Trojan Detection
Zhixin Pan, Ziyu Shu, Linh Nguyen +1
The globalized semiconductor supply chain has made Hardware Trojans (HT) a significant security threat to embedded systems, necessitating the design of efficient and adaptable dete…
Towards Low-Latency and Adaptive Ransomware Detection Using Contrastive Learning
Zhixin Pan, Ziyu Shu, Amberbir Alemayoh
Ransomware has become a critical threat to cybersecurity due to its rapid evolution, the necessity for early detection, and growing diversity, posing significant challenges to trad…