providing a set of input data;

replicating the set of input data to produce multiple units of input data;

processing each of the multiple units using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) hardware accelerator to provide a first output;

processing the set of input data using a software machine learning model to produce a result prediction output that is smaller than the multiple units of input data processed by the AI hardware accelerator;

replicating the result prediction output to generate an expected result output which is a same size as the first output; and

comparing the first output and the expected result output to validate the AI hardware accelerator.