Hardware/Software Co-Optimization for Machine Learning Spring 2018
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Welcome to Hardware/Software Co-Optimization for Machine Learning, taught by Prof. Luis Ceze with Thierry Moreau.
This website will be updated throughout the quarter, so check back for the latest.
Course Overview
- Lectures: Wed/Fri 9:30-10:50 in CSE203
- Office Hours: TBD
- Course mailing list: CSE599S (if you join late, you can check the archives to get caught up)
- Assignment submissions: Canvas dropbox
- Slides should be posted sometime before each lecture (ideally). Nag Luis or Thierry to upload them if the latest ones aren't up.
- The class discussion board is available here
Schedule
This is the planned lecture schedule. It will get refined as we go, so please check back.
Each week there will be required and suggested readings. Some of the class time will be use for paper presentations by students, paper discussions and hands-on tutorials.
(subject to change)
| Date | Topic & Readings | HW |
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| March 28 (W) | Intro, class planning |
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| March 30 (F) | Intro to deep learning (MxNET tutorial) |
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| April 4 (W) | Motivation for hardware specialization, Deep Learning accelerator taxonomy |
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| April 6 (F) | DL accelerator optimizations, TPU deep dive |
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| April 11 (W) | FPGA primer |
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| April 13 (F) | HLS tutorial, tiny TPU (VTALite) lab overview |
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| April 18 (W) | TVM intro (CPU+GPU) |
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| April 20 (F) | VTA Design Optimizations |
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| April 25 (W) | Supporting HW acceleration with TVM |
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| April 27 (F) | Project Suggestions / Lab 2 Hackathon |
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| May 2 (W) | Project pitches / Distributed training (Liang Luo) |
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| May 4 (F) | Paper discussion (Joshua Fromm) |
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| May 9 (W) | Paper discussion (Nancy Wang and Ollin Bohan) |
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| May 11 (F) | Paper discussion (Sam Elliot and Meghan Cowan) |
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| May 16 (W) | Project support session with Thierry |
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| May 18 (F) | Dr. Eric Chung on Project Brainwave (Microsoft) |
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| May 23 (W) | Paper discussion (James Bornholt and Julie Newcomb) |
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| May 25 (F) | Paper discussion (Ali Najafi and Amrita Mazumdar) |
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| May 30 (W) | Paper discussion (Mohamad Katanbaf and Vincent Lee) |
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| June 1 | Project presentations |
Calendar
This calendar just has the lectures, office hours, and special activities/meetings to help you keep up. We'll always let you know about changes via email, but feel free to subscribe to this if you like.