On Mon, Aug 6, 2018, at 15:42, Tobias Grosser wrote: > Dear LLVM and compiler interested people, > > this Thursday, 19:00, Dr. Oleksandre Zinenko will present Tensor- > Comprehension, a Deep-Learning compiler jointly developed by Facebook, > ENS Paris, and ETH Zurich at the LLVM compiler social. > > Tech-Talk: Deep Learning is the Killer App for Polyhedral Compilation > > Deep learning approaches are successfully applied to an increasingly > large number of real-world problems, such as computer vision, speech or > weather prediction. Their efficiency comes at a high computational and > energy price. While the deep learning kernels are qualified as > “embarrassingly parallel”, their implementations often fall > short of exploiting the full power of modern parallel hardware. We > propose Tensor Comprehensions, a new domain-specific language for deep > learning workloads and a compilation flow combining more (LLVM) or less > (polyhedral, in-process autotuning) conventional techniques. The > language is restricted by design to the computations that can be > effectively analyzed in the polyhedral model, yet it covers the vast > majority of DL layers. Polyhedral transformation happens at a higher > level than in existing tools, directly capturing the relevant > information that otherwise would have to be extracted from a lower-level > intermediate representation. Currently, Tensor Comprehensions targets > NVidia GPUs through NVRTC or LLVM’s PTX backend, and modern CPUs > with vectorization and optional parallelization through the Tapir > extension of the LLVM IR. Initial evaluations show up to 4x speedups > over vendor-provided libraries on computational kernels relevant to deep > learning. > > Oleksandr Zinenko is a research engineer at Inria and École > Normale Supérieure in Paris, France working on usability and > scalability of polyhedral compilation. He obtained his PhD from > University Paris-Saclay for the work on interactive program > restructuring. Oleksandr’s research interests include polyhedral > compilation, program optimization and programming languages, all from a > developer-centric viewpoint. He is a co-author of an interactive toolset > to promote and disseminate polyhedral compilation techniques. > > # Registration > > https://www.meetup.com/llvm-compiler-and-code-generation-socials-zurich/events/245320826/
https://www.meetup.com/llvm-compiler-and-code-generation-socials-zurich/events/cbffknyxlbmb/ > # What > > A social meetup to discuss compilation and code generation questions > with a focus on LLVM, clang, Polly and related projects. > > Our primary focus is to provide a venue (and drinks & snacks) that > enables free discussions between interested people without imposing an > agenda/program. This is a great opportunity to informally discuss your > own projects, get project ideas or just learn about what people at ETH > and around Zurich are doing with LLVM. > > Related technical presentations held by participants are welcome (please > contact us). > > # Who: - Anybody interested - > > - ETH students and staff > - LLVM developers and enthusiasts external to ETH > > # When: 09.08.2018, 19:00 > > # Where: CAB E 72 > > # What is LLVM ? > > LLVM (http://www.llvm.org) is an open source project that provides a > collection of modular compiler and toolchain technologies. It is > centered around a modern SSA-based compiler around which an entire > ecosystem of compiler technology was developed. Most well know is the > clang C++ compiler, which is e.g. used to deploy iOS. Beyond this a > diverse set of projects is developed under the umbrella of LLVM. These > include code generators and assemblers for various interesting > architectures, a jit compiler, a debugger, run-time libraries (C++ > Standard Library, OpenMP, Opencl library), program sanity checkers, and > many more. > > LLVM has itself grown out of a research project more than 10 years ago > and is the base of many exciting research projects today: > > https://scholar.google.ch/scholar?cites=7792455789532680075&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=de > > Best, > Tobias _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
