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Multiple Statistical Fault Injections for AI systems.
Rel. Annachiara Ruospo, Edgar Ernesto Sanchez Sanchez. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Computer Engineering, 2025
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Abstract
Memory faults affecting Neural Networks (NNs) are a critical source of vulnerability in modern AI systems. Estimating realistic failure rates is challenging because most software-side assessments do not capture how multiple, concurrent faults manifest in practice, and the space of multi-fault configurations grows combinatorially. This thesis introduces a Multiple Statistical Fault Injection (MSFI) framework that provides statistically sound failure-rate estimates for neural networks under multiple simultaneous weight faults, while keeping the number of injected faults and the memory footprint under control. The method targets application-level vulnerability: multiple bit-flip or stuck-at faults are injected into the network weights, and the resulting behavior is measured on the designated test set.
A key methodological choice is to use quantized models purely for computational tractability: the discrete, bounded parameter space makes fault-site enumeration and exact, reversible bit-level edits efficient, while leaving the underlying failure mechanisms unchanged
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