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Optimizing the performance of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications accelerated by graphics processing units (GPUs) is crucial for efficient simulations. In this study, we employed a machine learning-based autotuning technique to…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Weicheng Xue , Christohper John Roy

Novel technologies in automated machine learning ease the complexity of algorithm selection and hyperparameter optimization. Hyperparameters are important for machine learning models as they significantly influence the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Mohamadjavad Bahmani , Radwa El Shawi , Nshan Potikyan , Sherif Sakr

Performance portability is a major concern on current architectures. One way to achieve it is by using autotuning. In this paper, we are presenting how we exten ded a just-in-time compilation infrastructure to introduce autotuning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Elian Morel , Camille Coti

This work deals with the optimization of computer programs targeting Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The goal is to lift, from programmers to optimizing compilers, the heavy burden of determining program details that are dependent on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Xiaohui Chen , Marc Moreno-Maza , Jeeva Paudel , Ning Xie

GPU kernels have come to the forefront of computing due to their utility in varied fields, from high-performance computing to machine learning. A typical GPU compute kernel is invoked millions, if not billions of times in a typical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Khawir Mahmood , Jehandad Khan , Hammad Afzal

Machine learning applications often require hyperparameter tuning. The hyperparameters usually drive both the efficiency of the model training process and the resulting model quality. For hyperparameter tuning, machine learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Patrick Koch , Oleg Golovidov , Steven Gardner , Brett Wujek , Joshua Griffin , Yan Xu

Fine-tuning large language models is a popular choice among users trying to adapt them for specific applications. However, fine-tuning these models is a demanding task because the user has to examine several factors, such as resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Arjun Singh , Nikhil Pandey , Anup Shirgaonkar , Pavan Manoj , Vijay Aski

Automatic code generation is frequently used to create implementations of algorithms specifically tuned to particular hardware and application parameters. The code generation process involves the selection of adequate code transformations,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Dominik Ernst , Markus Holzer , Georg Hager , Matthias Knorr , Gerhard Wellein

Benchmarking is essential for developing and evaluating black-box optimization algorithms, providing a structured means to analyze their search behavior. Its effectiveness relies on carefully selected problem sets used for evaluation. To…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Iván Olarte Rodríguez , Maria Laura Santoni , Fabian Duddeck , Carola Doerr , Thomas Bäck , Elena Raponi

Heterogeneous computing, which combines devices with different architectures, is rising in popularity, and promises increased performance combined with reduced energy consumption. OpenCL has been proposed as a standard for programing such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Thomas L. Falch , Anne C. Elster

Neural Combinatorial Optimization has been researched actively in the last eight years. Even though many of the proposed Machine Learning based approaches are compared on the same datasets, the evaluation protocol exhibits essential flaws…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Daniela Thyssens , Tim Dernedde , Jonas K. Falkner , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Accurate hardware performance models are critical to efficient code generation. They can be used by compilers to make heuristic decisions, by superoptimizers as a minimization objective, or by autotuners to find an optimal configuration for…

Modern compilers typically provide hundreds of options to optimize program performance, but users often cannot fully leverage them due to the huge number of options. While standard optimization combinations (e.g., -O3) provide reasonable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Bingyu Gao , Mengyu Yao , Ziming Wang , Dong Liu , Ding Li , Xiangqun Chen , Yao Guo

The ability to model, analyze, and predict execution time of computations is an important building block supporting numerous efforts, such as load balancing, performance optimization, and automated performance tuning for high performance,…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-06-22 James D. Stevens , Andreas Klöckner

For scientific software, especially those used for large-scale simulations, achieving good performance and efficiently using the available hardware resources is essential. It is important to regularly perform benchmarks to ensure the…

Modern HPC systems are built with innovative system architectures and novel programming models to further push the speed limit of computing. The increased complexity poses challenges for performance portability and performance evaluation.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Holger Brunst , Sunita Chandrasekaran , Florina Ciorba , Nick Hagerty , Robert Henschel , Guido Juckeland , Junjie Li , Veronica G. Melesse Vergara , Sandra Wienke , Miguel Zavala

The ever-growing demand and complexity of machine learning are putting pressure on hyper-parameter tuning systems: while the evaluation cost of models continues to increase, the scalability of state-of-the-arts starts to become a crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yang Li , Yu Shen , Huaijun Jiang , Wentao Zhang , Jixiang Li , Ji Liu , Ce Zhang , Bin Cui

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) plays a crucial role in many key areas. Proximity graphs (PGs) are the leading method for ANNS, offering the best balance between query efficiency and accuracy. However, their performance heavily…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Hao Duan , Yitong Song , Bin Yao , Anqi Liang

Neural Networks have become one of the most successful universal machine learning algorithms. They play a key role in enabling machine vision and speech recognition for example. Their computational complexity is enormous and comes along…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Michaela Blott , Lisa Halder , Miriam Leeser , Linda Doyle

In this work we introduce an open source suite of quantum application-oriented performance benchmarks that is designed to measure the effectiveness of quantum computing hardware at executing quantum applications. These benchmarks probe a…