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Framing computation as the transformation of metastable memories, we explore its fundamental thermodynamic limits. The true power of information follows from a novel decomposition of nonequilibrium free energy derived here, which provides a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-13 Paul M. Riechers

This paper addresses the deadline-constrained task offloading and resource allocation problem in multi-access edge computing. We aim to determine where each task is offloaded and processed, as well as corresponding communication and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Chuanchao Gao , Arvind Easwaran

Deep neural networks have been demonstrated impressive results in various cognitive tasks such as object detection and image classification. In order to execute large networks, Von Neumann computers store the large number of weight…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Jaeyong Chung , Taehwan Shin , Yongshin Kang

As the performance of computer systems stagnates due to the end of Moore's Law, there is a need for new models that can understand and optimize the execution of general purpose code. While there is a growing body of work on using Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Zhan Shi , Kevin Swersky , Daniel Tarlow , Parthasarathy Ranganathan , Milad Hashemi

Today's computing systems require moving data back-and-forth between computing resources (e.g., CPUs, GPUs, accelerators) and off-chip main memory so that computation can take place on the data. Unfortunately, this data movement is a major…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Geraldo F. Oliveira , Amirali Boroumand , Saugata Ghose , Juan Gómez-Luna , Onur Mutlu

This study identifies the limitations and underlying characteristics of urban mobility networks that influence the performance of the gravity model. The gravity model is a widely-used approach for estimating and predicting population flows…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-10 Chiawei Hsu , Chao Fan , Ali Mostafavi

Data movement between the CPU and main memory is a first-order obstacle against improving performance, scalability, and energy efficiency in modern systems. Computer systems employ a range of techniques to reduce overheads tied to data…

Energy costs are quickly rising in large-scale data centers and are soon projected to overtake the cost of hardware. As a result, data center operators have recently started turning into using more energy-friendly hardware. Despite the…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Stavros Harizopoulos , Mehul Shah , Justin Meza , Parthasarathy Ranganathan

Processing large-scale graph datasets is computationally intensive and time-consuming. Processor-centric CPU and GPU architectures, commonly used for graph applications, often face bottlenecks caused by extensive data movement between the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Marzieh Barkhordar , Alireza Tabatabaeian , Mohammad Sadrosadati , Christina Giannoula , Juan Gomez Luna , Izzat El Hajj , Onur Mutlu , Alaa R. Alameldeen

The computational capabilities of a neural network are widely assumed to be determined by its static architecture. Here we challenge this view by establishing that a fixed neural structure can operate in fundamentally different…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xia Chen

The integration of AI data centers into power grid represents one of the most emerging and complex challenges for the energy systems. As computational demand scales at an unprecedented rate, the traditional grid planning study's paradigm of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Yize Chen , Xiaogui Zheng

We find new effects for gravitational waves and memory in asymptotically-flat spacetimes of slow decay. In particular, we derive growing magnetic memory for these general systems. These effects do not arise in spacetimes resulting from data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-27 Lydia Bieri

We introduce Gravity, another algorithm for gradient-based optimization. In this paper, we explain how our novel idea change parameters to reduce the deep learning model's loss. It has three intuitive hyper-parameters that the best values…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Dariush Bahrami , Sadegh Pouriyan Zadeh

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become a prevalent framework for graph tasks. Many recent studies have proposed the use of graph convolution methods over the numerous subgraphs of each graph, a concept known as subgraph graph neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Qian Tao , Xiyuan Wang , Muhan Zhang , Shuxian Hu , Wenyuan Yu , Jingren Zhou

Gaussian process (GP) emulator has been used as a surrogate model for predicting force field and molecular potential, to overcome the computational bottleneck of molecular dynamics simulation. Integrating both atomic force and energy in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Hao Li , Musen Zhou , Jessalyn Sebastian , Jianzhong Wu , Mengyang Gu

The popularization of cloud computing has raised concerns over the energy consumption that takes place in data centers. In addition to the energy consumed by servers, the energy consumed by large numbers of network devices emerges as a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Lin Wang , Fa Zhang , Jordi Arjona Aroca , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Kai Zheng , Chenying Hou , Dan Li , Zhiyong Liu

The accelerating expansion of AI workloads is colliding with an energy landscape increasingly dominated by intermittent renewable generation. While vast quantities of zero-carbon energy are routinely curtailed, today's centralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Giuseppe Tomei , Andrea Mayer , Giuseppe Alcini , Stefano Salsano

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained significant interest for applications such as citation network analysis and drug discovery due to their ability to apply machine learning techniques on graph-structured data. GNNs typically employ a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Siddhartha Raman Sundara Raman , Lizy John , Jaydeep P. Kulkarni

Computing science is based on a computing paradigm that is not valid anymore for today's technological conditions. The reason is that the transmission time even inside the processor chip, but especially between the components of the system,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-11 János Végh

Big data has exponentially dilated consumption demand and speed, but can they all be converted to utility? We argue about the measures of consumption and utility acquisition in CRRA utility function under the condition of big data…

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