Roger Woods

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2 Papers

5.3LGAug 23, 2023
CACTUS: a Comprehensive Abstraction and Classification Tool for Uncovering Structures

Luca Gherardini, Varun Ravi Varma, Karol Capala et al.

The availability of large data sets is providing an impetus for driving current artificial intelligent developments. There are, however, challenges for developing solutions with small data sets due to practical and cost-effective deployment and the opacity of deep learning models. The Comprehensive Abstraction and Classification Tool for Uncovering Structures called CACTUS is presented for improved secure analytics by effectively employing explainable artificial intelligence. It provides additional support for categorical attributes, preserving their original meaning, optimising memory usage, and speeding up the computation through parallelisation. It shows to the user the frequency of the attributes in each class and ranks them by their discriminative power. Its performance is assessed by application to the Wisconsin diagnostic breast cancer and Thyroid0387 data sets.

1.2PFAug 29, 2021
Leveraging Transprecision Computing for Machine Vision Applications at the Edge

Umar Ibrahim Minhas, Lev Mukhanov, Georgios Karakonstantis et al.

Machine vision tasks present challenges for resource constrained edge devices, particularly as they execute multiple tasks with variable workloads. A robust approach that can dynamically adapt in runtime while maintaining the maximum quality of service (QoS) within resource constraints, is needed. The paper presents a lightweight approach that monitors the runtime workload constraint and leverages accuracy-throughput trade-off. Optimisation techniques are included which find the configurations for each task for optimal accuracy, energy and memory and manages transparent switching between configurations. For an accuracy drop of 1%, we show a 1.6x higher achieved frame processing rate with further improvements possible at lower accuracy.