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Long Live TIME: Improving Lifetime and Security for NVM-Based Training-in-Memory Systems

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
dc.creator Lin, Yujun
dc.creator Han, Song
dc.date 2021-01-19T15:30:41Z
dc.date 2021-01-19T15:30:41Z
dc.date 2020-12
dc.date 2019-12
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T08:02:48Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T08:02:48Z
dc.identifier 0278-0070
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129440
dc.identifier Cai, Yi et al. “Long Live TIME: Improving Lifetime and Security for NVM-Based Training-in-Memory Systems.” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 39, 12 (December 2020): 4707 - 4720 © 2020 The Author(s)
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/275955
dc.description Nonvolatile memory (NVM)-based training-in-memory (TIME) systems have emerged that can process the neural network (NN) training in an energy-efficient manner. However, the endurance of NVM cells is disappointing, rendering concerns about the lifetime of TIME systems, because the weights of NN models always need to be updated for thousands to millions of times during training. Gradient sparsification (GS) can alleviate this problem by preserving only a small portion of the gradients to update the weights. However, conventional GS will introduce nonuniform writes on different cells across the whole NVM crossbars, which significantly reduces the excepted available lifetime. Moreover, an adversary can easily launch malicious training tasks to exactly wear-out the target cells and fast break down the system. In this article, we propose an efficient and effective framework, referred as SGS-ARS, to improve the lifetime and security of TIME systems. The framework mainly contains a structured GS (SGS) scheme for reducing the write frequency, and an aging-aware row swapping (ARS) scheme to make the writes uniform. Meanwhile, we show that the back-propagation mechanism allows the attacker to localize and update fixed memory locations and wear them out. Therefore, we introduce Random-ARS and Refresh techniques to thwart adversarial training attacks, preventing the systems from being fast broken in an extremely short time. Our experiments show that when TIME is programmed to train ResNet-50 on ImageNet dataset, 356× lifetime extension can be achieved without sacrificing the accuracy much or incurring much hardware overhead. Under the adversarial environment, the available lifetime of TIME systems can still be improved by 84× .
dc.description National Key Basic Research Program of China (Grant 2017YFA0207600)
dc.description National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 61832007, 61622403, 61621091)
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dc.publisher IEEE
dc.relation 10.1109/TCAD.2020.2977079
dc.relation IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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dc.title Long Live TIME: Improving Lifetime and Security for NVM-Based Training-in-Memory Systems
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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