Enhancing Security of Memristor Computing System Through Secure Weight Mapping

Minhui Zou, Junlong Zhou, Xiaotong Cui, Wei Wang, Shahar Kvatinsky

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Abstract

Emerging memristor computing systems have demonstrated great promise in improving the energy efficiency of neural network (NN) algorithms. The NN weights stored in memristor crossbars, however, may face potential theft attacks due to the nonvolatility of the memristor devices. In this paper, we propose to protect the NN weights by mapping selected columns of them in the form of 1's complements and leaving the other columns in their original form, preventing the adversary from knowing the exact representation of each weight. The results show that compared with prior work, our method achieves effectiveness comparable to the best of them and reduces the hardware overhead by more than 18X.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2022
Pages182-187
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665466059
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2022 - Pafos, Cyprus
Duration: 4 Jul 20226 Jul 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI
Volume2022-July

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2022
Country/TerritoryCyprus
CityPafos
Period4/07/226/07/22

Keywords

  • Memristor
  • Neural network
  • Security

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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