# Hardware Resilience Properties of Text-Guided Image Classifiers Source: [Hardware Resilience Properties of Text-Guided Image Classifiers]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-26T02:04:39.575Z Authors: Syed Talal Wasim, Kabila Haile Soboka, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Salman Khan, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei Published: 2023-11-23T15:38:13.000Z ## Abstract This paper presents a novel method to enhance the reliability of image classification models during deployment in the face of transient hardware errors. By utilizing enriched text embeddings derived from GPT-3 with question prompts per class and CLIP pretrained text encoder, we investigate their impact as an initialization for the classification layer. Our approach achieves a remarkable $5.5\\times$ average increase in hardware reliability (and up to $14\\times$) across various architectures in the most critical layer, with minimal accuracy drop ($0.3\\%$ on average) compared to baseline PyTorch models. Furthermore, our method seamlessly integrates with any image classification backbone, showcases results across various network architectures, decreases parameter and FLOPs overhead, and follows a consistent training recipe. This research offers a practical and efficient solution to bolster the robustness of image classification models against hardware failures, with potential implications for future studies in this domain. Our code and models are released at https://github.com/TalalWasim/TextGuidedResilience. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()