8 papers
EdgeCIM: A Hardware-Software Co-Design for CIM-Based Acceleration of Small Language Models
Jinane Bazzi, Mariam Rakka, Fadi Kurdahi +2
The growing demand for deploying Small Language Models (SLMs) on edge devices, including laptops, smartphones, and embedded platforms, has exposed fundamental inefficiencies in exi…
Mixed-Precision Quantization for Language Models: Techniques and Prospects
Mariam Rakka, Marios Fournarakis, Olga Krestinskaya +5
The rapid scaling of language models (LMs) has resulted in unprecedented computational, memory, and energy requirements, making their training and deployment increasingly unsustain…
CIMNAS: A Joint Framework for Compute-In-Memory-Aware Neural Architecture Search
Olga Krestinskaya, Mohammed E. Fouda, Ahmed Eltawil +1
To maximize hardware efficiency and performance accuracy in Compute-In-Memory (CIM)-based neural network accelerators for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, co-optimizing b…
On Jailbreaking Quantized Language Models Through Fault Injection Attacks
Noureldin Zahran, Ahmad Tahmasivand, Ihsen Alouani +2
The safety alignment of Language Models (LMs) is a critical concern, yet their integrity can be challenged by direct parameter manipulation attacks, such as those potentially induc…
Towards Efficient IMC Accelerator Design Through Joint Hardware-Workload Co-optimization
Olga Krestinskaya, Mohammed E. Fouda, Ahmed Eltawil +1
Designing generalized in-memory computing (IMC) hardware that efficiently supports a variety of workloads requires extensive design space exploration, which is infeasible to perfor…
Chimera: A Block-Based Neural Architecture Search Framework for Event-Based Object Detection
Diego A. Silva, Ahmed Elsheikh, Kamilya Smagulova +2
Event-based cameras are sensors that simulate the human eye, offering advantages such as high-speed robustness and low power consumption. Established Deep Learning techniques have…