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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…

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This paper introduces a novel method for automatically tuning the selection of compiler flags to optimize the performance of software intended to run on embedded hardware platforms. We begin by developing our approach on code compiled by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Craig Blackmore , Oliver Ray , Kerstin Eder

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

Recently, program autotuning has become very popular especially in embedded systems, when we have limited resources such as computing power and memory where these systems run generally time-critical applications. Compiler optimization space…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Burak Tağtekin , Berkan Höke , Mert Kutay Sezer , Mahiye Uluyağmur Öztürk

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…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Amir H. Ashouri , William Killian , John Cavazos , Gianluca Palermo , Cristina Silvano

Computing systems rarely deliver best possible performance due to ever increasing hardware and software complexity and limitations of the current optimization technology. Additional code and architecture optimizations are often required to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Grigori Fursin

Compiler optimization relies on sequences of passes to improve program performance. Selecting and ordering these passes automatically, known as compiler auto-tuning, is challenging due to the large and complex search space. Existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Haolin Pan , Jinyuan Dong , Mingjie Xing , Yanjun Wu

Since compiler optimization is the most common source contributing to binary code differences in syntax, testing the resilience against the changes caused by different compiler optimization settings has become a standard evaluation step for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Xiaolei Ren , Michael Ho , Jiang Ming , Yu Lei , Li Li

Compiler auto-tuning optimizes pass sequences to improve performance metrics such as Intermediate Representation (IR) instruction count. Although recent advances leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Haolin Pan , Hongyu Lin , Haoran Luo , Yang Liu , Kaichun Yao , Libo Zhang , Mingjie Xing , Yanjun Wu

The increasing complexity of deep learning models necessitates specialized hardware and software optimizations, particularly for deep learning accelerators. Existing autotuning methods often suffer from prolonged tuning times due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 JooHyoung Cha , Munyoung Lee , Jinse Kwon , Jubin Lee , Jemin Lee , Yongin Kwon

Existing iterative compilation and machine-learning-based optimization techniques have been proven very successful in achieving better optimizations than the standard optimization levels of a compiler. However, they were not engineered to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Kyriakos Georgiou , Zbigniew Chamski , Andres Amaya Garcia , David May , Kerstin Eder

An autotuning is an approach that explores a search space of possible implementations/configurations of a kernel or an application by selecting and evaluating a subset of implementations/configurations on a target platform and/or use models…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Xingfu Wu , Michael Kruse , Prasanna Balaprakash , Hal Finkel , Paul Hovland , Valerie Taylor , Mary Hall

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Haolin Pan , Chao Zha , Jinyuan Dong , Mingjie Xing , Yanjun Wu

Current compiler optimization reports often present complex, technical information that is difficult for programmers to interpret and act upon effectively. This paper assesses the capability of large language models (LLM) to understand…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Peter Pirkelbauer , Chunhua Liao

Compiler optimization techniques are inherently complex, and rigorous testing of compiler optimization implementation is critical. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of testing approaches for uncovering incorrect optimization bugs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jingwen Wu , Jiajing Zheng , Zhenyu Yang , Zhongxing Yu

Automatic performance tuning (auto-tuning) is widely used to optimize performance-critical applications across many scientific domains by finding the best program variant among many choices. Efficient optimization algorithms are crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Floris-Jan Willemsen , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort , Ben van Werkhoven

Automatic performance tuning (auto-tuning) is essential for optimizing high-performance applications, where vast and irregular search spaces make manual exploration infeasible. While auto-tuners traditionally rely on classical approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Floris-Jan Willemsen , Niki van Stein , Ben van Werkhoven

Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) uses runtime profiling to direct compiler optimization decisions, effectively combining static analysis with actual execution behavior to enhance performance. Runtime profiles, collected through…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Bingxin Liu , Yinghui Huang , Jianhua Gao , Jianjun Shi , Yongpeng Liu , Yipin Sun , Weixing Ji

Advanced compiler technology is crucial for enabling machine learning applications to run on novel hardware, but traditional compilers fail to deliver performance, popular auto-tuners have long search times and expert-optimized libraries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Dejan Grubisic , Bram Wasti , Chris Cummins , John Mellor-Crummey , Aleksandar Zlateski

GPU compilers are complex software programs with many optimizations specific to target hardware. These optimizations are often controlled by heuristics hand-designed by compiler experts using time- and resource-intensive processes. In this…

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