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Increasingly demanding performance requirements for dynamical systems motivates the adoption of nonlinear and adaptive control techniques. One challenge is the nonlinearity of the resulting closed-loop system complicates verification that…

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Recent advances in Large Language Models have led to remarkable achievements across a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks, making prompt engineering increasingly central to guiding model outputs. While manual methods can be…

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In this paper, we present a work in progress about a deep learning based approach for automatic code optimization in polyhedral compilers. The proposed technique explores combinations of affine and non-affine loop transformations to find…

We are interested in derivative-free optimization of high-dimensional functions. The sample complexity of existing methods is high and depends on problem dimensionality, unlike the dimensionality-independent rates of first-order methods.…

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This study proposes a framework for the automated hyperparameter optimization of a bearing fault detection pipeline for permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) without the need of external sensors. A automated machine learning (AutoML)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Tobias Wagner , Alexander Gepperth , Elmar Engels

The static instrumentation of machine code, also known as binary rewriting, is a power technique, but suffers from high runtime overhead compared to compiler-level instrumentation. Recent research has shown that tools can achieve…

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Since the mid-1990s, researchers have been trying to use machine-learning based approaches to solve a number of different compiler optimization problems. These techniques primarily enhance the quality of the obtained results and, more…

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Recent years have seen deep neural networks (DNNs) becoming wider and deeper to achieve better performance in many applications of AI. Such DNNs however require huge amounts of memory to store weights and intermediate results (e.g.,…

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We advocate that simulation based on offline profiling is a promising approach to better understand and improve the complex ML systems. Our approach uses operation-level profiling and dataflow based simulation to ensure it offers a unified…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Hongming Huang , Peng Cheng , Hong Xu , Yongqiang Xiong

Stochastic simulators are increasingly used to expand the frontier of scientific knowledge and inform decision-making across real-world contexts. Simulator calibration, a process by which internal model inputs are tuned to match some…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-25 David O'Gara , Arindam Fadikar , Mickaël Binois , Nicholson Collier , Jonathan Ozik

Profiling techniques are used extensively at different parts of the computing stack to achieve many goals. One major goal is to make a piece of software execute more efficiently on a specific hardware platform, where efficiency spans…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Chris Quackenbush , Mohamed Zahran

The rapid growth of deep learning models has increased the demand for efficient distributed training strategies. Fully sharded approaches like ZeRO-3 and FSDP partition model parameters across GPUs and apply optimizations such as…

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Probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) are a powerful modeling tool, able to represent any computable probability distribution. Unfortunately, probabilistic program inference is often intractable, and existing PPLs mostly rely on…

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Data and knowledge representation are fundamental concepts in machine learning. The quality of the representation impacts the performance of the learning model directly. Feature learning transforms or enhances raw data to structures that…

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The use of machine learning techniques to improve the performance of branch-and-bound optimization algorithms is a very active area in the context of mixed integer linear problems, but little has been done for non-linear optimization. To…

Profiling tools (also known as profilers) play an important role in understanding program performance at runtime, such as hotspots, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies. While profilers have been proven to be useful, they give extra burden to…

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Writing high-performance image processing code is challenging and labor-intensive. The Halide programming language simplifies this task by decoupling high-level algorithms from "schedules" which optimize their implementation. However, even…

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We investigate methods for parameter learning from incomplete data that is not missing at random. Likelihood-based methods then require the optimization of a profile likelihood that takes all possible missingness mechanisms into account.…

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Widely used compilers like GCC and LLVM usually have hundreds of optimizations controlled by optimization flags, which are enabled or disabled during compilation to improve runtime performance (e.g., small execution time) of the compiler…

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