Computing system designers need to characterize the execution of applications on a computing system (e.g., on a processor) and they also need to improve the design (i.e., find better hardware/software configurations for the computing system such as one that produces more throughput at lower energy consumption). Existing mechanisms for computing systems’...

Efficient hardware/software codesigns of deep learning accelerators are crucial for optimizing their performance in various applications, ranging from datacenters to mobile and wearable devices. The existing methods for optimizing deep learning accelerator designs are primarily black-box approaches, which do not consider crucial information about the...