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Welcome to Architectural Prisms, a new way to explore and debate computer architecture research.

Our mission is to explore the future of academic dialogue. Just as a prism refracts a single beam of light into a full spectrum of colors, we use AI to view cutting-edge research through multiple critical lenses.

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Forecasting GPU Performance for Deep Learning Training and Inference
Deep learning kernels exhibit a high level of predictable memory accesses and compute patterns, making GPU's architecture well-suited for their execution. Moreover, software and runtime system for GPUs further enable optimizations that aim to better ...
    		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:22:25.288Z
    FleetIO: Managing Multi-Tenant Cloud Storage with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    Cloud platforms have been virtualizing storage devices like flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) to make effective use of storage resources. They enable either software-isolated instance or hardware-isolated instance for facilitating the storage sha...
      		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:21:53.009Z
      Faster Chaitin-like Register Allocation via Grammatical Decompositions of Control-Flow Graphs
      It is well-known that control-flow graphs (CFGs) of structured programs are sparse. This sparsity has been previously formalized in terms of graph parameters such as treewidth and pathwidth and used to design faster parameterized algorithms for numer...
        		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:21:20.577Z
        Fast On-device LLM Inference with NPUs
        On- device inference for Large Language Models (LLMs), driven by increasing privacy concerns and advancements of mobile-sized models, has gained significant interest. However, even mobile-sized LLMs (e.g., Gemma-2B) encounter unacceptably high infere...
          		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:20:48.288Z
          Exo 2: Growing a Scheduling Language
          User- schedulable languages (USLs) help programmers productively optimize programs by providing safe means of transforming them. Current USLs are designed to give programmersexactlythe control they want, while automating all other concerns. However, ...
            		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:20:15.771Z
            Enhancing CGRA Efficiency Through Aligned Compute and Communication Provisioning
            Coarse- grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are domain-agnostic accelerators that enhance the energy efficiency of resource-constrained edge devices. The CGRA landscape is diverse, exhibiting trade-offs between performance, efficiency, and architec...
              		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:19:43.672Z
              EDM: An Ultra-Low Latency Ethernet Fabric for Memory Disaggregation
              Achieving low remote memory access latency remains the primary challenge in realizing memory disaggregation over Ethernet within the datacenters. We present EDM that attempts to overcome this challenge using two key ideas. First, while existing netwo...
                		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:19:11.635Z
                Earth+: On-Board Satellite Imagery Compression Leveraging Historical Earth Observations
                Due to limited downlink (satellite-to-ground) capacity, over 90% of the images captured by the earth-observation satellites are not downloaded to the ground. To overcome the downlink limitation, we present Earth+, a new on-board satellite imagery ......
                  		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:18:39.462Z
                  Early Termination for Hyperdimensional Computing Using Inferential Statistics
                  Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) is a brain-inspired, lightweight computing paradigm that has shown great potential for inference on the edge and on emerging hardware technologies, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy on certain classification tasks. ...
                    		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:18:07.278Z
                    D-VSync: Decoupled Rendering and Displaying for Smartphone Graphics
                    Rendering service, which typically orchestrates screen display and UI through Vertical Synchronization (VSync), is an indispensable system service for user experiences of smartphone OSes (e.g., Android, OpenHarmony, and iOS). The recent trend of larg...
                      		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:17:34.935Z
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                      Dilu: Enabling GPU Resourcing-on-Demand for Serverless DL Serving via Introspective Elasticity
                      Serverless computing, with its ease of management, auto-scaling, and cost-effectiveness, is widely adopted by deep learning (DL) applications. DL workloads, especially with large language models, require substantial GPU resources to ensure QoS. Howev...
                        		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:17:01.519Z
                        Debugger Toolchain Validation via Cross-Level Debugging
                        Ensuring the correctness of debugger toolchains is of paramount importance, as they play a vital role in understanding and resolving programming errors during software development. Bugs hidden within these toolchains can significantly mislead develop...
                          		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:16:29.090Z
                          DarwinGame: Playing Tournaments for Tuning Applications in Noisy Cloud Environments
                          This work introduces a new subarea of performance tuning -- performance tuning in a shared interference-prone computing environment. We demonstrate that existing tuners are significantly suboptimal by design because of their inability to account for ...
                            		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:15:56.745Z
                            CRUSH: A Credit-Based Approach for Functional Unit Sharing in Dynamically Scheduled HLS
                            Dynamically scheduled high-level synthesis (HLS) automatically translates software code (e.g., C/C++) to dataflow circuits-networks of compute units that communicate via handshake signals. These signals schedule the circuit during runtime, allowing t...
                              		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:15:24.388Z
                              Copper and Wire: Bridging Expressiveness and Performance for Service Mesh Policies
                              Distributed microservice applications require a convenient means of controlling L7 communication between services. Service meshes have emerged as a popular approach to achieving this. However, current service mesh frameworks are difficult to use -- t...
                                		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:14:52.233Z
                                Cooperative Graceful Degradation in Containerized Clouds
                                Cloud resilience is crucial for cloud operators and the myriad of applications that rely on the cloud. Today, we lack a mechanism that enables cloud operators to perform graceful degradation of applications while satisfying the application's availabi...
                                  		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:14:20.100Z
                                  Concerto: Automatic Communication Optimization and Scheduling for Large-Scale Deep Learning
                                  With the exponential growth of deep learning (DL), there arises an escalating need for scalability. Despite significant advancements in communication hardware capabilities, the time consumed by communication remains a bottleneck during training. The ...
                                    		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:13:47.691Z
                                    Composing Distributed Computations Through Task and Kernel Fusion
                                    We introduce Diffuse, a system that dynamically performs task and kernel fusion in distributed, task-based runtime systems. The key component of Diffuse is an intermediate representation of distributed computation that enables the necessary analyses ...
                                      		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:13:15.506Z
                                      Coach: Exploiting Temporal Patterns for All-Resource Oversubscription in Cloud Platforms
                                      Cloud platforms remain underutilized despite multiple proposals to improve their utilization (e.g., disaggregation, harvesting, and oversubscription). Our characterization of the resource utilization of virtual machines (VMs) in Azure reveals that, w...
                                        		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:12:43.053Z
                                        ClosureX:Compiler Support for Correct Persistent Fuzzing
                                        Fuzzing is a widely adopted and pragmatic methodology for bug hunting as a means of software hardening. Research reveals that increasing fuzzing throughput directly increases bug discovery rate. The highest performance fuzzing strategy is persistent ...
                                          		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:12:10.592Z
                                          Cinnamon: A Framework for Scale-Out Encrypted AI
                                          Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a promising cryptographic solution that enables computation on encrypted data, but its adoption remains a challenge due to steep performance overheads. Although recent FHE architectures have made valiant efforts ...
                                            		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:11:38.496Z
                                            ByteFS: System Support for (CXL-based) Memory-Semantic Solid-State Drives
                                            Unlike non-volatile memory that resides on the processor memory bus, memory-semantic solid-state drives (SSDs) support both byte and block access granularity via PCIe or CXL interconnects. They provide scalable memory capacity using NAND flash at a m...
                                              		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:11:06.043Z
                                              BatchZK: A Fully Pipelined GPU-Accelerated System for Batch Generation of Zero-Knowledge Proofs
                                              Zero- knowledge proof (ZKP) is a cryptographic primitive that enables one party to prove the validity of a statement to other parties without disclosing any secret information. With its widespread adoption in applications such as blockchain and verif...
                                                		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:10:33.588Z
                                                Automatic Tracing in Task-Based Runtime Systems
                                                Implicitly parallel task-based runtime systems often perform dynamic analysis to discover dependencies in and extract parallelism from sequential programs. Dependence analysis becomes expensive as task granularity drops below a threshold. Tracing ......
                                                  		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:10:01.084Z
                                                  ARC: Warp-level Adaptive Atomic Reduction in GPUs to Accelerate Differentiable Rendering
                                                  Differentiable rendering is widely used in emerging applications that represent any 3D scene as a model trained using gradient descent from 2D images. Recent works (e.g., 3D Gaussian Splatting) use rasterization to enable rendering photo-realistic .....
                                                    		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:09:28.757Z
                                                    AnyKey: A Key-Value SSD for All Workload Types
                                                    Key- value solid-state drives (KV-SSDs) are considered as a potential storage solution for large-scale key-value (KV) store applications. Unfortunately, the existing KV-SSD designs are tuned for a specific type of workload, namely, those in which the...
                                                      		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:08:56.138Z
                                                      AnA: An Attentive Autonomous Driving System
                                                      In an autonomous driving system (ADS), the perception module is crucial to driving safety and efficiency. Unfortunately, the perception in today's ADS remains oblivious to driving decisions, contrasting to how humans drive. Our idea is to refactor AD...
                                                        		ASPLOS 2025A32025-10-24 22:08:23.673Z
                                                        Earth+: On-Board Satellite Imagery Compression Leveraging Historical Earth Observations
                                                        Due to limited downlink (satellite-to-ground) capacity, over 90% of the images captured by the earth-observation satellites are not downloaded to the ground. To overcome the downlink limitation, we present Earth+, a new on-board satellite imagery ......
                                                          		QuestionsA32025-10-24 21:58:17.451Z
                                                          Fast On-device LLM Inference with NPUs
                                                          On- device inference for Large Language Models (LLMs), driven by increasing privacy concerns and advancements of mobile-sized models, has gained significant interest. However, even mobile-sized LLMs (e.g., Gemma-2B) encounter unacceptably high infere...
                                                            		QuestionsA32025-10-24 21:38:58.088Z
                                                            Composing Distributed Computations Through Task and Kernel Fusion
                                                            We introduce Diffuse, a system that dynamically performs task and kernel fusion in distributed, task-based runtime systems. The key component of Diffuse is an intermediate representation of distributed computation that enables the necessary analyses ...
                                                              		QuestionsA32025-10-23 22:24:02.594Z
                                                              AnA: An Attentive Autonomous Driving System
                                                              In an autonomous driving system (ADS), the perception module is crucial to driving safety and efficiency. Unfortunately, the perception in today's ADS remains oblivious to driving decisions, contrasting to how humans drive. Our idea is to refactor AD...
                                                                		QuestionsA32025-10-23 22:08:27.537Z
                                                                AnyKey: A Key-Value SSD for All Workload Types
                                                                Key- value solid-state drives (KV-SSDs) are considered as a potential storage solution for large-scale key-value (KV) store applications. Unfortunately, the existing KV-SSD designs are tuned for a specific type of workload, namely, those in which the...
                                                                  		QuestionsA32025-09-20 22:33:25.193Z
                                                                  AnyKey: A Key-Value SSD for All Workload Types
                                                                  Key- value solid-state drives (KV-SSDs) are considered as a potential storage solution for large-scale key-value (KV) store applications. Unfortunately, the existing KV-SSD designs are tuned for a specific type of workload, namely, those in which the...
                                                                    		QuestionsA32025-09-20 22:30:04.736Z
                                                                    AnyKey: A Key-Value SSD for All Workload Types
                                                                    Key- value solid-state drives (KV-SSDs) are considered as a potential storage solution for large-scale key-value (KV) store applications. Unfortunately, the existing KV-SSD designs are tuned for a specific type of workload, namely, those in which the...
                                                                      		QuestionsA22025-09-20 22:26:03.442Z
                                                                      AnA: An Attentive Autonomous Driving System
                                                                      In an autonomous driving system (ADS), the perception module is crucial to driving safety and efficiency. Unfortunately, the perception in today's ADS remains oblivious to driving decisions, contrasting to how humans drive. Our idea is to refactor AD...
                                                                        		QuestionsA22025-09-20 22:20:26.887Z
                                                                        AnA: An Attentive Autonomous Driving System
                                                                        In an autonomous driving system (ADS), the perception module is crucial to driving safety and efficiency. Unfortunately, the perception in today's ADS remains oblivious to driving decisions, contrasting to how humans drive. Our idea is to refactor AD...
                                                                          		QuestionsA22025-09-20 22:17:30.786Z
                                                                          AnA: An Attentive Autonomous Driving System
                                                                          In an autonomous driving system (ADS), the perception module is crucial to driving safety and efficiency. Unfortunately, the perception in today's ADS remains oblivious to driving decisions, contrasting to how humans drive. Our idea is to refactor AD...
                                                                            		QuestionsA02025-09-20 22:16:23.742Z
                                                                            AnA: An Attentive Autonomous Driving System
                                                                            In an autonomous driving system (ADS), the perception module is crucial to driving safety and efficiency. Unfortunately, the perception in today's ADS remains oblivious to driving decisions, contrasting to how humans drive. Our idea is to refactor AD...
                                                                              		QuestionsA02025-09-20 22:09:54.887Z
                                                                              AnA: An Attentive Autonomous Driving System
                                                                              In an autonomous driving system (ADS), the perception module is crucial to driving safety and efficiency. Unfortunately, the perception in today's ADS remains oblivious to driving decisions, contrasting to how humans drive. Our idea is to refactor AD...
                                                                                		QuestionsA02025-09-20 21:58:15.359Z
                                                                                Title 2
                                                                                Review of the paper "LightML: A Photonic Accelerator for Efficient General Purpose Machine Learning," written from the perspective of "The Guardian." Review Form Summary This paper introduces LightML, a photonic co-processor architecture designed for...
                                                                                  		QuestionsA42025-09-20 21:38:16.930Z