13 papers
Architecture Carbon Tool v3: Enabling Sustainability-aware Silicon System Design Exploration
Vincent T. Lee, Bilge Acun, Zachary Lewis +1
As the carbon cost of manufacturing and operating semiconductor devices has come into sharper focus, sustainability has gradually emerged as a new system architecture design metric…
Hybrid Architectures for Language Models: Systematic Analysis and Design Insights
Sangmin Bae, Bilge Acun, Chien-Yu Lin +5
Recent progress in large language models demonstrates that hybrid architectures--combining self-attention mechanisms with structured state space models like Mamba--can achieve a co…
Composer: A Search Framework for Hybrid Neural Architecture Design
Bilge Acun, Prasoon Sinha, Newsha Ardalani +7
Hybrid model architectures that combine computational primitives (e.g., Attention, MLP) in different ratios have shown promising performance beyond Transformers. Some studies have…
Gecko: An Efficient Neural Architecture Inherently Processing Sequences with Arbitrary Lengths
Xuezhe Ma, Shicheng Wen, Linghao Jin +11
Designing a unified neural network to efficiently and inherently process sequential data with arbitrary lengths is a central and challenging problem in sequence modeling. The desig…
CATransformers: Carbon Aware Transformers Through Joint Model-Hardware Optimization
Irene Wang, Newsha Ardalani, Mostafa Elhoushi +6
Machine learning solutions are rapidly adopted to enable a variety of key use cases, from conversational AI assistants to scientific discovery. This growing adoption is expected to…
Characterizing and Efficiently Accelerating Multimodal Generation Model Inference
Yejin Lee, Anna Sun, Basil Hosmer +27
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology is revolutionizing the computing industry. Not only its applications have broadened to various sectors but also poses new system…