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Compiler pass auto-tuning is critical for enhancing software performance, yet finding the optimal pass sequence for a specific program is an NP-hard problem. Traditional, general-purpose optimization flags like -O3 and -Oz adopt a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Haolin Pan , Hongbin Zhang , Mingjie Xing , Yanjun Wu

The performance of evolutionary algorithms can be heavily undermined when constraints limit the feasible areas of the search space. For instance, while Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy is one of the most efficient algorithms…

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Heterogeneity has become a mainstream architecture design choice for building High Performance Computing systems. However, heterogeneity poses significant challenges for achieving performance portability of execution. Adapting a program to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Giorgis Georgakoudis , Konstantinos Parasyris , Chunhua Liao , David Beckingsale , Todd Gamblin , Bronis de Supinski

Learning effective numerical representations, or embeddings, of programs is a fundamental prerequisite for applying machine learning to automate and enhance compiler optimization. Prevailing paradigms, however, present a dilemma. Static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Haolin Pan , Jinyuan Dong , Hongbin Zhang , Hongyu Lin , Mingjie Xing , Yanjun Wu

Performance-critical industrial applications, including large-scale program, network, and distributed system analyses, are increasingly reliant on recursive queries for data analysis. Yet traditional relational algebra-based query…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Anna Herlihy , Guillaume Martres , Anastasia Ailamaki , Martin Odersky

This paper presents a meta-compilation framework, the MCompiler. The main idea is that different segments of a program can be compiled with different compilers/optimizers and combined into a single executable. The MCompiler can be used in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Aniket Shivam , Alexandru Nicolau , Alexander V. Veidenbaum

We study two-stage stochastic optimization problems with random recourse, where the adaptive decisions are multiplied with the uncertain parameters in both the objective function and the constraints. To mitigate the computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Xiangyi Fan , Grani A. Hanasusanto

Performance is one of the most important qualities of software. Several techniques have thus been proposed to improve it, such as program transformations, optimisation of software parameters, or compiler flags. Many automated software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Aymeric Blot , Justyna Petke

The autonomous systems need to decide how to react to the changes at runtime efficiently. The ability to rigorously analyze the environment and the system together is theoretically possible by the model-driven approaches; however, the model…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Melika Dastranj , Mehran Alidoost Nia , Mehdi Kargahi

The effectiveness of the machine learning methods for real-world tasks depends on the proper structure of the modeling pipeline. The proposed approach is aimed to automate the design of composite machine learning pipelines, which is…

Traditional optimizing compilers rely on rewrite rules to iteratively apply program transformations. This iterative approach hides optimization opportunities behind intermediate transformation steps. For instance, vectorization can only be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Ulysse Beaugnon , Basile Clément , Nicolas Tollenaere , Albert Cohen

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a successful control methodology, which is applied to increasingly complex systems. However, real-time feasibility of MPC can be challenging for complex systems, certainly when an (extremely) large number…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 S. A. N. Nouwens , B. de Jager , M. M. Paulides , W. P. M. H. Heemels

Video-based representations have gained prominence in planning and decision-making due to their ability to encode rich spatiotemporal dynamics and geometric relationships. These representations enable flexible and generalizable solutions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Po-Chen Ko , Jiayuan Mao , Yu-Hsiang Fu , Hsien-Jeng Yeh , Chu-Rong Chen , Wei-Chiu Ma , Yilun Du , Shao-Hua Sun

Architecture optimization is the process of automatically generating design options, typically to enhance software's quantifiable quality attributes, such as performance and reliability. Multi-objective optimization approaches have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Daniele Di Pompeo , Michele Tucci

Register allocation (mapping variables to processor registers or memory) and instruction scheduling (reordering instructions to increase instruction-level parallelism) are essential tasks for generating efficient assembly code in a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Roberto Castañeda Lozano , Christian Schulte

Adaptive streaming addresses the increasing and heterogenous demand of multimedia content over the Internet by offering several encoded versions for each video sequence. Each version (or representation) has a different resolution and bit…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Laura Toni , Ramon Aparicio-Pardo , Karine Pires , Gwendal Simon , Alberto Blanc , Pascal Frossard

We introduce iterative retrieval, a novel framework that empowers retrievers to make iterative decisions through policy optimization. Finding an optimal portfolio of retrieved items is a combinatorial optimization problem, generally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yunmo Chen , Tongfei Chen , Harsh Jhamtani , Patrick Xia , Richard Shin , Jason Eisner , Benjamin Van Durme

Test-time compute scaling allocates inference computation uniformly, uses fixed sampling strategies, and applies verification only for reranking. In contrast, we propose a verifier-guided adaptive framework treating reasoning as iterative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ahsan Bilal , Ahmed Mohsin , Muhammad Umer , Ali Subhan , Hassan Rizwan , Ayesha Mohsin , Dean Hougen

Profile guided optimization is an effective technique for improving the optimization ability of compilers based on dynamic behavior, but collecting profile data is expensive, cumbersome, and requires regular updating to remain fresh. We…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Nadav Rotem , Chris Cummins