#hardware-software co-design
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MDTransformer: A Hardware-Software Co-Design of Mode-Division Photonic Transformer Accelerator with Inverse-Designed Coherent Crossbar
Solomon Micheal Serunjogi, Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Ayat Taha +2
MDTransformer is a hardware-software co-designed photonic accelerator that uses mode-division multiplexing and inverse-designed optical components to perform complex matrix multipl…
Valinor: Architectural Support for Fast, Energy-Efficient and Programmable Physical Memory Allocation
Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, Spiros Galanopoulos, Konstantinos Sgouras +7
Valinor is a hardware‑OS cooperative substrate that provides a programmable allocation engine to accelerate physical memory allocation, achieving hardware‑level speed while retaini…
Realizable N:M Sparse Transformer Inference via Search-Kernel Co-Design
Yiming Liu, Wenqi Lou, Zhiguang Wang +4
The paper presents a co-designed hardware and software framework that enables fast inference of Vision Transformers by applying N:M structured sparsity with a specialized CUDA kern…
Kaleido: Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design for Video Diffusion Transformers by Exploiting Latent Space Correlations
Wenxuan Miao, Haosong Liu, Weiming Hu +9
Kaleido introduces a hardware‑software co‑design that speeds up video diffusion transformers by reusing channel‑wise spatiotemporal information in the latent space, achieving large…
Microflow: Microarchitectural Causal Observability for Deep Cross-Layer Analysis and Optimization
Saber Ganjisaffar, Chengyu Song, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh
Microflow is a framework that converts execution traces into a causal intermediate representation, allowing precise attribution of microarchitectural stalls to their root causes ac…
A Reality Check on Quantum Optimisation: Evidence from an Industrial Case Study
Hila Safi, Karen Wintersperger, Oliver von Sicard +2
The paper evaluates quantum, quantum-inspired, and classical methods for solving an industrial job‑shop scheduling problem, comparing IBM Quantum, D‑Wave, and Fujitsu Digital Annea…