Micro-armed bandit: lightweight & reusable reinforcement learning for microarchitecture decision-making

G Gerogiannis, J Torrellas - Proceedings of the 56th Annual IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Online Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been adopted as an effective mechanism in
various decision-making problems in microarchitecture. Its high adaptability and the ability to …

A survey on effective invocation methods of massive llm services

C Wang, B Zhang, D Sui, Z Tu, X Liu, J Kang - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Language models as a service (LMaaS) enable users to accomplish tasks without requiring
specialized knowledge, simply by paying a service provider. However, numerous providers …

A Two Level Neural Approach Combining Off-Chip Prediction with Adaptive Prefetch Filtering

AV Jamet, G Vavouliotis, DA Jiménez… - … Symposium on High …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To alleviate the performance and energy overheads of contemporary applications with large
data footprints, we propose the Two Level Perceptron (TLP) predictor, a neural mechanism …

Virtuoso: An open-source, comprehensive and modular simulation framework for virtual memory research

K Kanellopoulos, K Sgouras, O Mutlu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.04635, 2024 - arxiv.org
Virtual memory is a cornerstone of modern computing systems. Introduced as one of the
earliest instances of hardware-software co-design, VM facilitates programmer-transparent …

Tyche: An Efficient and General Prefetcher for Indirect Memory Accesses

F Xue, C Han, X Li, J Wu, T Zhang, T Liu… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Indirect memory accesses (IMAs, ie, A [f (B [i])]) are typical memory access patterns in
applications such as graph analysis, machine learning, and database. IMAs are composed …

Rebasing microarchitectural research with industry traces

J Feliu, A Perais, DA Jiménez… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microarchitecture research relies on performance models with various degrees of accuracy
and speed. In the past few years, one such model, ChampSim, has started to gain significant …

Customizing Cache Indexing Through Entropy Estimation

K Weston, A Johnson, V Janfaza… - 2024 57th IEEE/ACM …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern computers heavily rely on caches as one of the means to achieve higher
performance. As a result, cache management has been the topic of extensive research …

[PDF][PDF] 处理器值预测技术研究

黄立波, 杨凌, 杨乾明, 马胜, 王永文, 隋兵才, 沈立… - 电子学报, 2023 - ejournal.org.cn
当今的处理器性能与存储器带宽和延迟严重失衡的问题限制了计算系统的整体性能,
而存储器的性能对制程工艺不敏感, 在后摩尔时代下很难再通过集成电路制造工艺的迭代获得 …

Gaze into the Pattern: Characterizing Spatial Patterns with Internal Temporal Correlations for Hardware Prefetching

Z Chen, C Wu, Y Gu, R Jia, J Li, M Guo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.05211, 2024 - arxiv.org
Hardware prefetching is one of the most widely-used techniques for hiding long data access
latency. To address the challenges faced by hardware prefetching, architects have proposed …

Prefetching Mechanism for Distributed Cache Architecture: Trends and Challenges

J Mallidu, SV Siddamal - International Conference on Inventive …, 2024 - Springer
In recent years, the demand for more computing power has exponentially grown, leading to
new processor architectures being developed to meet these demands. Among these, tiled …