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Traditional optimizing compilers have played an important role in adapting to the growing complexity of modern software systems. The need for efficient parallel programming in current architectures requires strong optimization techniques.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Miguel Romero Rosas , Miguel Torres Sanchez , Rudolf Eigenmann

Generating performant executables from high level languages is critical to software performance across a wide range of domains. Modern compilers perform this task by passing code through a series of well-studied optimizations at…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Benjamin Mikek , Danylo Vashchilenko , Bryan Lu , Panpan Xu

We explore the novel application of Large Language Models to code optimization. We present a 7B-parameter transformer model trained from scratch to optimize LLVM assembly for code size. The model takes as input unoptimized assembly and…

Quantum computers promise to transform our notions of computation by offering a completely new paradigm. To achieve scalable quantum computation, optimizing compilers and a corresponding software design flow will be essential. We present a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Thomas Häner , Damian S. Steiger , Krysta Svore , Matthias Troyer

Selecting the right compiler optimisations has a severe impact on programs' performance. Still, the available optimisations keep increasing, and their effect depends on the specific program, making the task human intractable. Researchers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Stefano Cereda , Gianluca Palermo , Paolo Cremonesi , Stefano Doni

Compiler optimization decisions are often based on hand-crafted heuristics centered around a few established benchmark suites. Alternatively, they can be learned from feature and performance data produced during compilation. However,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Raphael Mosaner , David Leopoldseder , Wolfgang Kisling , Lukas Stadler , Hanspeter Mössenböck

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

While model serving has unlocked unprecedented capabilities, the high cost of serving large-scale models continues to be a significant barrier to widespread accessibility and rapid innovation. Compiler optimizations have long driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Annabelle Sujun Tang , Christopher Priebe , Rohan Mahapatra , Lianhui Qin , Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

Superoptimization is the task of transforming a program into a faster one while preserving its input-output behavior. In this work, we investigate whether large language models (LLMs) can serve as superoptimizers, generating assembly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Anjiang Wei , Tarun Suresh , Huanmi Tan , Yinglun Xu , Gagandeep Singh , Ke Wang , Alex Aiken

A quantum computer consists of a set of quantum bits upon which operations called gates are applied to perform computations. In order to perform quantum algorithms, physicists would like to design arbitrary gates to apply to quantum bits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-18 Jeffrey Booth

Compiler optimization is crucial for enhancing program performance by transforming the sequence of optimization passes while maintaining correctness. Despite the promising potential of large language models (LLMs)-based agent for software…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hongyu Lin , Haolin Pan , Haoran Luo , Yuchen Li , Kaichun Yao , Libo Zhang , Mingjie Xing , Yanjun Wu

Compiler optimizations are designed to improve run-time performance while preserving input-output behavior. Correctness in this sense does not necessarily preserve security: it is known that standard optimizations may break or weaken…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Kedar S. Namjoshi , Lucas M. Tabajara

In this paper, we focus on the need for two approaches to optimize producer and consumer synchronization for auto-parallelizing compiler. Emphasis is placed on the construction of a criterion model by which the compiler reduce the number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-04 Gang Liao , Zhi-hui Qin , Long-fei Ma , Qi Sun

Efficient parallelization of algorithms on general-purpose GPUs is essential in many areas today. However, it is a non-trivial task for software engineers to utilize GPUs to improve the performance of high-level programs in general.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Lars Hummelgren , John Wikman , Oscar Eriksson , Philipp Haller , David Broman

Recent leaps in large language models (LLMs) caused a revolution in programming tools (like GitHub Copilot) that can help with code generation, debugging, and even performance optimization. In this paper, we focus on the capabilities of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Matyáš Brabec , Jiří Klepl , Michal Töpfer , Martin Kruliš

Current quantum programming is dominated by low-level, circuit-centric approaches that limit the potential for compiler optimization. This work presents how a high-level programming construct provides compilers with the semantic information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Evandro C. R. Rosa , Jerusa Marchi , Eduardo I. Duzzioni , Rafael de Santiago

Typical constraints on embedded systems include code size limits, upper bounds on energy consumption and hard or soft deadlines. To meet these requirements, it may be necessary to improve the software by applying various kinds of…

Performance · Computer Science 2010-11-30 Hugues Cassé , Karine Heydemann , Haluk Ozaktas , Jonathan Ponroy , Christine Rochange , Olivier Zendra

Manual engineering of high-performance implementations typically consumes many resources and requires in-depth knowledge of the hardware. Compilers try to address these problems; however, they are limited by design in what they can do. To…

Modern software systems in many application areas offer to the user a multitude of parameters, switches and other customisation hooks. Humans tend to have difficulties determining the best configurations for particular applications. Modern…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Chris Fawcett , Lars Kotthoff , Holger H. Hoos

Computing according to laymens procedures is changed to contain a paradigm of inoptimality in the high level and assembled code. The code is changed to maximize the flow of information contained in the electrons so that they function more…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon Chalmers