[hpc-announce] CFP: 2nd AccML Workshop at ISCA (Deadline: May 1, 2020)

[Jose Cano Reyes]

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2nd Workshop on Accelerated Machine Learning (AccML)

Co-located with the ISCA 2020 Conference
(https://iscaconf.org/isca2020/)

May 31, 2020
Valencia, Spain
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UPDATE: Due to COVID-19, AccML at ISCA 2020 will now take place virtually.

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
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In the last 5 years, the remarkable performance achieved in a variety of application areas (natural language processing, computer vision, games, etc.) has led to the emergence of heterogeneous architectures to accelerate machine learning workloads. In parallel, production deployment, model complexity and diversity pushed for higher productivity systems, more powerful programming abstractions, software and system architectures, dedicated runtime systems and numerical libraries, deployment and analysis tools. Deep learning models are generally memory and computationally intensive, for both training and inference. Accelerating these operations has obvious advantages, first by reducing the energy consumption (e.g. in data centers), and secondly, making these models usable on smaller devices at the edge of the Internet. In addition, while convolutional neural networks have motivated much of this effort, numerous applications and models involve a wider variety of operations, network architectures, and data processing. These applications and models permanently challenge computer architecture, the system stack, and programming abstractions. The high level of interest in these areas calls for a dedicated forum to discuss emerging acceleration techniques and computation paradigms for machine learning algorithms, as well as the applications of machine learning to the construction of such systems.

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Links to the Workshop pages
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Organizers: http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/accml/

ISCA: https://www.iscaconf.org/isca2020/program/workshops.html

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Invited Speakers
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- Antonio Gonzalez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
- David Kaeli (Northeastern University)
- Tushar Krishna (Georgia Tech)
- Cliff Young (Google)

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Topics
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Novel ML systems: heterogeneous multi/many-core systems, GPUs, FPGAs;
- Novel ML hardware accelerators and associated software;
- Emerging semiconductor technologies with applications to ML hardware acceleration;
- ML for the construction and tuning of systems;
- Cloud and edge ML computing: hardware and software to accelerate training and inference;
- Computing systems research addressing the privacy and security of ML-dominated systems.

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Submission
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Papers will be reviewed by the workshop's technical program committee according to criteria regarding a submission's quality, relevance to the workshop's topics, and, foremost, its potential to spark discussions about directions, insights, and solutions on the topics mentioned above. Research papers, case studies, and position papers are all welcome.

The workshop does not have formal proceedings, so accepted papers do not preclude publishing at future conferences and/or journals.

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Important Dates
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Submission deadline: May 1, 2020
Notification of decision: May 15, 2020

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Organizers
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José Cano (University of Glasgow)
José L. Abellán (Catholic University of Murcia)
Albert Cohen (Google)
Alex Ramirez (Google)