A survey of machine learning applied to computer architecture design

DD Penney, L Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.12373, 2019 - arxiv.org
Machine learning has enabled significant benefits in diverse fields, but, with a few
exceptions, has had limited impact on computer architecture. Recent work, however, has …

Archgym: An open-source gymnasium for machine learning assisted architecture design

S Krishnan, A Yazdanbakhsh, S Prakash… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Machine learning (ML) has become a prevalent approach to tame the complexity of design
space exploration for domain-specific architectures. While appealing, using ML for design …

Efficiently exploring architectural design spaces via predictive modeling

E Ïpek, SA McKee, R Caruana, BR de Supinski… - ACM SIGOPS …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
Architects use cycle-by-cycle simulation to evaluate design choices and understand
tradeoffs and interactions among design parameters. Efficiently exploring exponential-size …

BOOM-Explorer: RISC-V BOOM microarchitecture design space exploration framework

C Bai, Q Sun, J Zhai, Y Ma, B Yu… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The microarchitecture design of a processor has been increasingly difficult due to the large
design space and time-consuming verification flow. Previously, researchers rely on prior …

A survey of machine learning for computer architecture and systems

N Wu, Y Xie - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2022 - dl.acm.org
It has been a long time that computer architecture and systems are optimized for efficient
execution of machine learning (ML) models. Now, it is time to reconsider the relationship …

Efficient architectural design space exploration via predictive modeling

E Ipek, SA McKee, K Singh, R Caruana… - ACM Transactions on …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Efficiently exploring exponential-size architectural design spaces with many interacting
parameters remains an open problem: the sheer number of experiments required renders …

Simnet: Accurate and high-performance computer architecture simulation using deep learning

L Li, S Pandey, T Flynn, H Liu, N Wheeler… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
While cycle-accurate simulators are essential tools for architecture research, design, and
development, their practicality is limited by an extremely long time-to-solution for realistic …

Architectural design decisions for machine learning deployment

SJ Warnett, U Zdun - 2022 IEEE 19th International Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deploying machine learning models to production is challenging, partially due to the
misalignment between software engineering and machine learning disciplines but also due …

Experiences with ml-driven design: A noc case study

J Yin, S Sethumurugan, Y Eckert… - … Symposium on High …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There has been a lot of recent interest in applying machine learning (ML) to the design of
systems, which purports to aid human experts in extracting new insights leading to better …

[PDF][PDF] SBArchOpt: Surrogate-based architecture optimization

JH Bussemaker - Journal of Open Source Software, 2023 - joss.theoj.org
In engineered systems, the architecture of a system describes how the components of a
system work together to fulfill the system functions and meet stakeholder expectations …