Effective and efficient microprocessor design space exploration using unlabeled design configurations

  • Authors:
  • Qi Guo;Tianshi Chen;Yunji Chen;Zhi-Hua Zhou;Weiwu Hu;Zhiwei Xu

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Loongson Technologies Corporation Limited, Beijing, China and Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...;Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Loongson Technologies Corporation Limited, Beijing, China;Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Loongson Technologies Corporation Limited, Beijing, China;National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China;Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Loongson Technologies Corporation Limited, Beijing, China;Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Second international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence - Volume Volume Two
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

During the design of a microprocessor, Design Space Exploration (DSE) is a critical step which determines the appropriate design configuration of the microprocessor. In the computer architecture community, supervised learning techniques have been applied to DSE to build models for predicting the qualities of design configurations. For supervised learning, however, considerable simulation costs are required for attaining the labeled design configurations. Given limited resources, it is difficult to achieve high accuracy. In this paper, inspired by recent advances in semi-supervised learning, we propose the COMT approach which can exploit unlabeled design configurations to improve the models. In addition to an improved predictive accuracy, COMT is able to guide the design of microprocessors, owing to the use of comprehensible model trees. Empirical study demonstrates that COMT significantly outperforms state-of-the-art DSE technique through reducing mean squared error by 30% to 84%, and thus, promising architectures can be attained more efficiently.