A Design Methodology for Fault-Tolerant Computing using Astrocyte Neural Networks

Autor:	Işık, Murat, Paul, Ankita, Varshika, M. Lakshmi, Das, Anup
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	We propose a design methodology to facilitate fault tolerance of deep learning models. First, we implement a many-core fault-tolerant neuromorphic hardware design, where neuron and synapse circuitries in each neuromorphic core are enclosed with astrocyte circuitries, the star-shaped glial cells of the brain that facilitate self-repair by restoring the spike firing frequency of a failed neuron using a closed-loop retrograde feedback signal. Next, we introduce astrocytes in a deep learning model to achieve the required degree of tolerance to hardware faults. Finally, we use a system software to partition the astrocyte-enabled model into clusters and implement them on the proposed fault-tolerant neuromorphic design. We evaluate this design methodology using seven deep learning inference models and show that it is both area and power efficient. Comment: Accepted at ACM Computing Frontiers, 2022
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02942 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv