Publications

Exploring the Impact of Weak Links Between Chains in Trapped Ion Quantum Computers
Alexander Hankin, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Mark Hempstead, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei
IISWC 2024
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Guess & Sketch: Language Model Guided Transpilation
Celine Lee, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Michal Kurek, Simone Campanoni, David Brooks, Stephen Chong, Gu-Yeon Wei, Alexander M. Rush
ICLR 2024
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Hardware Resilience Properties of Text-Guided Image Classifiers
Syed Talal Wasim, Kabila Haile Saboka, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Salman Khan, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei
NeurIPS 2023
Acceptance Rate: 26.0%
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Our code is open-sourced, available here!

Silent Data Corruption in Robot Operating System: A Case for End-to-End System-Level Fault Analysis Using Autonomous UAVs
Yu-Shun Hsiao, Zishen Wan, Tianyu Jia, Radhika Ghosal, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Arjit Raychowdhury, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei, Vijay Janapa Reddi
TCAD 2023
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ApproxCaliper: A Programmable Framework for Application-aware Neural Network Optimization
Yifan Zhao, Hashim Sharif, Peter Pao-Huang, Vatsin Shah, Arun Narenthiran Sivakumar, Mateus Valverde Gasparino, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Nathan Zhao, Sarita Adve, Girish Chowdhary, Sasa Misailovic, Vikram Adve
MLSys 2023
Acceptance Rate: 22%
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MAVFI: An End-to-End Fault Analysis Framework with Anomaly Detection and Recovery for Micro Aerial Vehicles
Yu-Shun Hsiao, Zishen Wan, Tianyu Jia, Radhika Ghosal, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Arjit Raychowdhury, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei, Vijay Janapa Reddi
DATE 2023
Acceptance Rate: 24%
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GoldenEye: A Platform for Evaluating Emerging Numerical Data Formats in DNN Accelerators
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Thierry Tambe, Tarek Aloui, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei
DSN 2022
Acceptance Rate: 18.9%
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GoldenEye is open-sourced, available here!

FRL-FI: Transient Fault Analysis for Federated Reinforcement Learning-Based Navigation Systems
Zishen Wan, Aqeel Anwar, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Tianyu Jia, Yu-Shun Hsiao, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Arjit Raychowdhury
DATE 2022
Acceptance Rate: 25%
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A Dataflow-Aware Fault Resilience Analysis Framework for Deep Neural Network Accelerators
Jaylen Wang, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei
YArch 2022
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Optimizing Selective Protection for CNN Resilience
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Christopher W. Fletcher, Sarita V. Adve, Charbel Sakr, Naresh Shanbhag, Pavlo Molchanov, Michael B. Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Stephen W. Keckler
ISSRE 2021
Acceptance Rate: 27.5%
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Mentoring Opportunities in Computer Architecture: Analyzing the Past to Develop the Future
Elba Garza, Gururaj Saileshwar, Udit Gupta, Tianyi Liu, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Saugata Ghose, Joel Emer
WCAE 2021
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Inter-Kernel Reuse-aware Thread Block Scheduling
Muhammad Huzaifa, Johnathan Alsop, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Giordano Salvador, Matthew D. Sinclair, Sarita V. Adve
TACO 2020
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PyTorchFI: A Runtime Perturbation Tool for DNNs
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Neeraj Aggarwal, Alex Nobbe, Jose Rodrigo Sanchez Vicarte, Sarita V. Adve, Christopher W. Fletcher, Iuri Frosio, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari
DSML 2020
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PyTorchFI is open-sourced, available here! Downloaded 40,000+ times!

Feature Map Vulnerability Evaluation in CNNs
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Christopher W. Fletcher, Sarita V. Adve, Charbel Sakr, Naresh Shanbhag, Pavlo Molchanov, Michael B. Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, and Stephen W. Keckler
SARA 2020
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Approximate Checkers
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Paul Reckamp, Panqiu Tang, Christopher W. Fletcher, and Sarita V. Adve
WAX 2019
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gem5-Approxilyzer: an Open Source Tool for Application-Level Soft Error Analysis
Radha Venkatagiri, Khalique Ahmed, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Sasa Misailovic, Darko Marinov, Christopher W. Fletcher, and Sarita V. Adve
DSN 2019
Acceptance Rate: 21.4%
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gem5-Approxilyzer is open-sourced, available here!

Minotaur: Adapting Software Testing Techniques for Hardware Errors
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Radha Venkatagiri, Khalique Ahmed, Sasa Misailovic, Darko Marinov, Christopher W. Fletcher, and Sarita V. Adve
ASPLOS 2019
Acceptance Rate: 21.1%
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VR Swarms: Enabling Shared Virtual Experiences
Muhammad Huzaifa and Abdulrahman Mahmoud
WACI 2019
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Optimizing Software-Directed Instruction Replication for GPU Error Detection
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Michael Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, and Stephen W. Keckler
SC 2018
Acceptance Rate: 19.1%
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Leveraging Software Testing to Explore Input Dependence for Approximate Computing
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Radha Venkatagiri, Khalique Ahmed, Sarita Adve, Darko Marinov, and Sasa Misailovic
WAX 2017
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Approxilyzer: Towards A Systematic Framework for Instruction-Level Approximate Computing and its Application to Hardware Resiliency
Radha Venkatagiri, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, and Sarita Adve
MICRO 2016
Acceptance Rate: 21.6%
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Approxilyzer is open-sourced, available here!

Towards More Precision in Approximate Computing
Radha Venkatagiri, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, and Sarita Adve
WAX 2016
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Verification and Synthesis of Firewalls Using SAT and QBF
Shuyuan Zhang, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Sharad Malik, and Sanjai Narain
ICNP 2012
Acceptance Rate: 22.9%
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