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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

In recent years, many design automation methods have been developed to routinely create approximate implementations of circuits and programs that show excellent trade-offs between the quality of output and required resources. This paper…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Lukas Sekanina

The growth in the use of computationally intensive statistical procedures, especially with Big Data, has necessitated the usage of parallel computation on diverse platforms such as multicore, GPU, clusters and clouds. However, slowdown due…

Computation · Statistics 2014-09-23 Norman Matloff

Many techniques in program synthesis, superoptimization, and array programming require parallel rollouts of general-purpose programs. GPUs, while capable targets for domain-specific parallelism, are traditionally underutilized by such…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Breandan Considine

This paper introduces an innovative approach to boost the efficiency and scalability of Evolutionary Rule-based machine Learning (ERL), a key technique in explainable AI. While traditional ERL systems can distribute processes across…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hormoz Shahrzad , Risto Miikkulainen

A new model for evolving Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) is proposed in this paper. The model is based on the Multi Expression Programming (MEP) technique. Each MEP chromosome encodes an evolutionary pattern that is repeatedly used for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Mihai Oltean

Evolution Strategies (ES) is a class of powerful black-box optimisation methods that are highly parallelisable and can handle non-differentiable and noisy objectives. However, na\"ive ES becomes prohibitively expensive at scale on GPUs due…

Achieving high performance for GPU codes requires developers to have significant knowledge in parallel programming and GPU architectures, and in-depth understanding of the application. This combination makes it challenging to find…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Jhe-Yu Liou , Muaaz Awan , Steven Hofmeyr , Stephanie Forrest , Carole-Jean Wu

General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) computing plays a transformative role in deep learning and machine learning by leveraging the computational advantages of parallel processing. Through the power of Compute Unified Device…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Ming Li , Ziqian Bi , Tianyang Wang , Yizhu Wen , Qian Niu , Xinyuan Song , Zekun Jiang , Junyu Liu , Benji Peng , Sen Zhang , Xuanhe Pan , Jiawei Xu , Jinlang Wang , Keyu Chen , Caitlyn Heqi Yin , Pohsun Feng , Ming Liu

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are general-purpose optimisers that come with several parameters like the sizes of parent and offspring populations or the mutation rate. It is well known that the performance of EAs may depend drastically on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Mario Alejandro Hevia Fajardo , Dirk Sudholt

Tree-based Genetic Programming (TGP) is a widely used evolutionary algorithm for tasks such as symbolic regression, classification, and robotic control. Due to the intensive computational demands of running TGP, GPU acceleration is crucial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zhihong Wu , Lishuang Wang , Kebin Sun , Zhuozhao Li , Ran Cheng

Theory of evolutionary computation (EC) aims at providing mathematically founded statements about the performance of evolutionary algorithms (EAs). The predominant topic in this research domain is runtime analysis, which studies the time it…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Eduardo Carvalho Pinto , Carola Doerr

In this work, we survey the role of GPUs in real-time systems. Originally designed for parallel graphics workloads, GPUs are now widely used in time-critical applications such as machine learning, autonomous vehicles, and robotics due to…

Parallel computing using accelerators has gained widespread research attention in the past few years. In particular, using GPUs for general purpose computing has brought forth several success stories with respect to time taken, cost, power,…

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are population-based general-purpose optimization algorithms, and have been successfully applied in various real-world optimization tasks. However, previous theoretical studies often employ EAs with only a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Chao Qian , Yang Yu , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Graphics processing units (GPU) had evolved from a specialized hardware capable to render high quality graphics in games to a commodity hardware for effective processing blocks of data in a parallel schema. This evolution is particularly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-26 Luis Cabellos

We study parallel algorithms for the minimization of Deterministic Finite Automata (DFAs). In particular, we implement four different massively parallel algorithms on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Our results confirm the expectations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jan Martens , Anton Wijs

Local search is a successful approach for solving combinatorial optimization and constraint satisfaction problems. With the progressing move toward multi and many-core systems, GPUs and the quest for Exascale systems, parallelism has become…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-05-13 Rui Machado , Salvador Abreu , Daniel Diaz

Scientists are increasingly exploring and utilizing the massive parallelism of general-purpose accelerators such as GPUs for scientific breakthroughs. As a result, datacenters, hyperscalers, national computing centers, and supercomputers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Prasoon Sinha , Akhil Guliani , Rutwik Jain , Brandon Tran , Matthew D. Sinclair , Shivaram Venkataraman

The number of cores on graphical computing units (GPUs) is reaching thousands nowadays, whereas the clock speed of processors stagnates. Unfortunately, constraint programming solvers do not take advantage yet of GPU parallelism. One reason…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pierre Talbot , Frédéric Pinel , Pascal Bouvry