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Hyperparameter tuning of multi-stage pipelines introduces a significant computational burden. Motivated by the observation that work can be reused across pipelines if the intermediate computations are the same, we propose a pipeline-aware…

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Serving Large Language Models (LLMs) in production faces significant challenges from highly variable request patterns and severe resource fragmentation in serverless clusters. Current systems rely on static pipeline configurations that…

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This paper proposes an application mapping algorithm, BandMap, for coarse-grained reconfigurable array (CGRA), which allocates the bandwidth in PE array according to the transferring demands of data, especially the data with high spatial…

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Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are widely used in the central signal processing design of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) as acceleration hardware. The frequency domain acceleration search (FDAS) module is an important part of the…

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Artificial intelligence necessitates adaptable hardware accelerators for efficient high-throughput million operations. We present pipelined architecture with CORDIC block for linear MAC computations and nonlinear iterative Activation…

Compiler pass selection and phase ordering present a significant challenge in achieving optimal program performance, particularly for objectives like code size reduction. Standard compiler heuristics offer general applicability but often…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are the state-of-the-art solution for many deep learning applications. For maximum scalability, their computation should combine high performance and energy efficiency. In practice, the convolutions of…

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The input data pipeline is an essential component of each machine learning (ML) training job. It is responsible for reading massive amounts of training data, processing batches of samples using complex transformations, and loading them onto…

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The proliferation of camera-enabled devices and large video repositories has led to a diverse set of video analytics applications. These applications rely on video pipelines, represented as DAGs of operations, to transform videos, process…

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Pipelining between data loading and computation is a critical tensor program optimization for GPUs. In order to unleash the high performance of latest GPUs, we must perform a synergetic optimization of multi-stage pipelining across the…

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One significant advantage of superconducting processors is their extensive design flexibility, which encompasses various types of qubits and interactions. Given the large number of tunable parameters of a processor, the ability to perform…

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To increase performance and efficiency, systems use FPGAs as reconfigurable accelerators. A key challenge in designing these systems is partitioning computation between processors and an FPGA. An appropriate division of labor may be…

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Modern computing workloads commonly involve matrix-matrix multiplication (mmul) as a core computing pattern. Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) can flexibly and efficiently support it, since they combine operation-level…

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3D field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) promise higher performance through vertical integration. However, existing placement tools, largely inherited from 2D frameworks, fail to capture the unique delay characteristics and optimization…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated their superiority in numerous computer vision tasks, yet their computational cost results prohibitive for many real-time applications such as pedestrian detection which is usually…

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Serverless computing has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for deploying Deep Learning (DL) models, offering automatic scaling and cost efficiency. However, the inherent cold start problem in serverless ML inference systems, particularly the…

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Interactive intelligent computing applications are increasingly prevalent, creating a need for AI/ML platforms optimized to reduce per-event latency while maintaining high throughput and efficient resource management. Yet many intelligent…

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