About

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques have become the de facto solution to drive human progress and more specifically, automation. In the last few years, the world’s economy has been gravitating towards the AI/ML domain (from industrial and scientific perspectives) and the expectation of growth has only been increasing with the rapid rate of innovation and commercial deployments.

Over the past 7 editions, the CogArch workshop has brought together experts and knowledge on the most novel design ideas for cognitive systems. This workshop capitalizes on the synergy between industrial and academic efforts in order to provide a better understanding of cognitive systems and key concepts of their design. In particular, while previous editions of the workshop have attempted to address co-designed hardware-software architectures that enable the latest advancements in machine learning, this edition focuses on applying state-of-the-art machine learning models towards realizing novel processor architectures and design. Architecting, designing, verifying and manufacturing commercial-grade processor requires hundreds of highly skilled designers, complex toolflows and a time-to-market of several months to years, and leveraging AI techniques at various stages in the design cycle can serve to significantly ease these constraints.

The CogArch workshop has already had seven successful editions, bringing together experts and knowledge on the most novel design ideas for cognitive systems. This workshop capitalizes on the synergy between industrial and academic efforts in order to provide a better understanding of cognitive systems and key enablers of their design.

Call for Papers

Hardware and software design considerations are gravitating towards AI applications, as those have been proven extremely useful in a wide variety of fields, from edge computing in autonomous cars, to cloud-based computing for personalized medicine. Recent efforts to utilize AI for hardware design have been gaining traction. AI models have been shown to be effective in tackling complex challenges in the EDA world when applied to automatic place-and-route, design of novel architectures, leveraging new material/packaging technologies or even optimizing manufacturing processes.

The CogArch workshop solicits formative ideas and new product offerings in the general space of AI systems that are applied towards designing of next generation processing systems, at every stage of conceptualization, design, testing, verification and manufacturing.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
  • Application of AI models towards hardware design
  • AI-enabled architecture design and exploration
  • AI for efficient EDA optimizations, place-and-route
  • AI-enabled optimizations for compilers, firmware and middleware
  • AI for test bench generation for hardware
  • AI techniques for leveraging emerging device technologies, 2.5D/3D stacking, chiplet architectures, novel packaging technologies
  • AI/ML for fast system modeling and simulation
  • AI for improving efficiency and coverage of verification methodologies
  • Demonstrations (live or recorded) showcasing prototypes, tools and methodologies for AI-inspired hardware design

The workshop will consist of regular presentations and/or prototype demonstrations by authors of selected submissions. In addition, it will include invited keynotes by eminent researchers as well as interactive panel discussions to kindle further interest in these research topics. Submissions will be reviewed by a Workshop Selection Committee comprising of experts from industry and academia. Keeping in mind the cross-disciplinary nature of this workshop, this committee will consist of researchers with diverse interests covering the spectrum of design automation, testing/verification, architecture, and machine learning.

Submitted manuscripts must be in English of up to 2 pages (with same formatting guidelines as main conference). Submissions should be submitted to the following link by April 11th April 20th, 2024.
If you have questions regarding submission, please contact us: info@cogarchworkshop.org

Important Dates

  • Paper submission deadline: April 11th April 20th, 2024 (EXTENDED!)
  • Notification of acceptance: April 25th, 2024
  • Camera-ready submission deadline: June 7th, 2024
  • Workshop date: June 30th, 2024

Program Committee

  • Karthik Swaminathan, IBM Research
  • Subhankar Pal, IBM Research
  • Aporva Amarnath, IBM Research
  • Ananda Samajdar, IBM Research

Paper Submission Deadline
April 11th, 2024

Notification Date
April 25 th, 2024

Workshop Date and Venue
June 30th, 2024,
Sauce Conference Room at Hilton Buenos Aires

Invited Speakers:

Scaling Intelligence

Azalia Mirhoseini (Assistant Professor, Stanford University)

Modeling and Simulation (ModSim) in the AI Era

Adolfy Hoisie, (Chair, Systems, Architectures, and Advanced Technologies Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

While accurate simulators are essential tools for architecture research, design, and development, their practicality is limited by an extremely long time-to-solution for realistic architectures and applications. The presentation will focus on recent advances aiming at developing AI techniques for architecture modeling and simulation (ModSim). We will discuss research aiming at developing machine learning AI/ML techniques for architecture simulation with a spectrum of goals from accelerating to using AI/ML as an alternative to existing techniques . We will strive to answer key questions such as: Is it doable? Is it practical? Is it fast? Is it accurate? What is the range of uses? The ability of these methods to cope with heterogeneous architectures for complex workflows, and a new frontier of applicability to codesign of complex systems in a dynamic regime will be discussed.

Architecture 2.0: From Concept to Breaking Ground

Vijay Janapa Reddi (Associate Professor, Harvard University)

Program:

Sunday June 30th, 2024
(all times are Argentina Local Time (ART))
9:00 - 9:15 AM Introduction and Welcoming Remarks
9:15 - 10:00 AM Invited Talk: "Modeling and Simulation (ModSim) in the AI Era"
Adolfy Hoisie (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
10:00 - 10:20 AM Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50 AM "Artifical Intelligence Governed Processor"
Alper Buyuktosunoglu and David Trilla (IBM Research)
10:50 - 11:20 AM "Efficient FPGA-based power model adaption with Transfer-Learning and Meta-Learning"
Zhigang Wei, Aman Arora, Emily Shriver and Lizy John (University of Texas, Austin)
11:20 - 12:05 PM Invited Talk: "Architecture 2.0: From Concept to Breaking Ground"
Vijay Janapa Reddi (Harvard University)
12:30 - 1:45 PM Lunch
1:45 - 2:15 PM "FASCINet: A Fully Automated Single-Board Computer Generator Inspired by Neural Networks"
Morteza Fayazi, Zachary Colter, Zineb Benameur-El Youbi, Javad Bagherzadeh, Tutu Ajayi and Ronald Dreslinski (University of Michigan)
2:15 - 3:00 PM Invited Talk: "Scaling Intelligence"
Azalia Mirhoseini (Stanford University)
3:00 - 3:20 PM Break
3:20 - 3:50 PM "AnGeL: Fully-Automated Analog Circuit Generator Leveraging Neural Networks"
Morteza Fayazi, Morteza Tavakoli Taba, Ehsan Afshari and Ronald Dreslinski (University of Michigan)
3:50 - 5:00 PM Panel: Will AI-enabled approaches render ISCA redundant?
5:00 - 5:15 PM Concluding Remarks

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Past Editions:

Organizers

Karthik Swaminathan is a Senior Research Scientist at the IBM T.J Watson Research Center. His research has a broad, cross-layer scope examining circuit, architecture and application level optimizations for improving the reliability and energy efficiency of both general purpose and specialized computing architectures. He has also worked on characterizing performance and reliability of IBM server-class and mainframe processors at various stages of design. He holds a PhD from the Pennsylvania State University.

Subhankar Pal is a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. His research is focused on SoC design methodologies and hardware-software co-design for privacy-preserving machine learning. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Michigan. His Ph.D. thesis looked at designing a reconfigurable, software-defined hardware solution that balances programmability with energy efficiency. Prior to that, Subhankar was with NVIDIA, where he worked on pre-silicon verification and bring-up of multiple generations of GPUs.

Aporva Amarnath is a Research Scientist at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. She is interested in developing memory system architectures for emerging applications using existing and new memory technologies to tackle the memory wall. Her research interests include, developing memory system architectures for emerging applications using existing and new memory technologies, creating energy-efficient accelerators for HPC applications and developing schedulers for real-time constrained AV applications. She holds a PhD from the University of Michigan.

Ananda Samajdar is a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center working on accelerator design and compilation/mapping strategies for DNN workloads on IBM’s RaPiD AI accelerator. He holds a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech.

Interesting Links

The AI and Robotics Timeline from 1939 to date

The AI portal with the latest research activities conducted by IBM on AI

The Foundation Models portal

IBM Watson in action in this text-to-speech demo

Registration

CogArch will be held in conjunction with the 51st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2024). Refer to the main venue to continue with the registration process.

Event Location

Hilton Buenos Aires
Macacha Güemes 351, C1106BKG Buenos Aires, Argentina

Check main venue site for more information.