This is the 1st December 2025 digest of SIGARCH Messages.
Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Domain-Specialized FPGAs - (Note: The Call for Paper type has not been set for this item!)
Call for Papers: ACM CF’26 – Computing Frontiers 2026 - (Note: The Call for Paper type has not been set for this item!)
Call for Papers: GPGPU @ ASPLOS 2026 - (Note: The Call for Paper type has not been set for this item!)
Call for Papers: CP 2026: ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers
https://www.computingfrontiers.org/2026/index.html
Submitted by Dipika Deb
23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF 2026)
May 19-21, 2026
Catania, Sicily, Italy
Computing Frontiers (CF) is an eclectic, interdisciplinary, collaborative community of researchers investigating emerging technologies in the broad field of computing: our common goal is to drive the scientific breakthroughs that support society.
We seek original research contributions at the frontiers of a wide range of topics, including novel computational models and algorithms, new application paradigms, computer architecture (from embedded to HPC systems), computing hardware, memory technologies, networks, storage solutions, compilers, and runtime environments.
Topics of Interest
We strongly encourage submissions in other emerging fields of computing, and welcome submissions that propose new directions of research and out-of-the-box solutions for grand computing challenges. If you are in doubt whether your work fits Computing Frontiers, please contact the program co-chairs.
Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline: January 12, 2026
Paper submission deadline: January 19, 2026
Author notification: March 9, 2026
Camera-ready version due: April 6, 2026
Organizers
Chairs:
Hubertus Franke, IBM Research, US
Maurizio Palesi, University of Catania, IT
Call for Papers: EMC2 @ ASPLOS ’26
https://www.emc2-ai.org/
Submitted by Sushant Kondguli
11th Workshop on Energy Efficient Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing (EMC2)
co-located with ASPLOS 2026
March 22, 2026
Pittsburgh, PA
https://www.emc2-ai.org/
EMC2 workshop aims to facilitate conversation about the sustainability of large-scale AI computing systems being developed to meet the ever-increasing demands of generative AI. This involves discussions spanning multiple interrelated areas.
Topics of interest
Important Dates
Paper Submission January 31, 2026 (23:59 PST)
Acceptance and Author Notification February 15, 2026 (23:59 PST)
Call for Papers: LATTE 2026
https://capra.cs.cornell.edu/latte26/
Submitted by Adrian Sampson
LATTE is a venue for discussion, debate, and brainstorming at the intersection of hardware acceleration and programming languages research. The core mission is to bring ideas we love from software programming languages and tools to the world of hardware design:
https://capra.cs.cornell.edu/latte26/
LATTE ’26 is co-located with ASPLOS, in Rotterdam.
Submit your 2-page position paper by January 31.
Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop on Unary Computing (WUC)
https://sites.google.com/view/wuc-3rd
Submitted by Di Wu
Our brain operates at 20 watts, while one rack of CPUs and GPUs for similar tasks demand staggering 10,000 watts or even more. The prevalence of Generative AI is just making it worse, due to billions of model parameters. Leveraging a compute fabric based on event-driven spikes, our brain effortlessly executes complex tasks with unmatched energy efficiency, surpassing the capabilities of any existing von-Neumann architecture. These spikes manifest as unary data, conveyed as distinct 0s and 1s sequentially, diverging from the conventional binary representation. This unary computing model is omnipresent in our neurons, supporting human intelligence with extreme efficiency, with the earliest form of dates back to 1960s. Unary computing has been extensively utilized for both arithmetic and neural operations, by different groups targeting various applications, showcasing its potential in the signal processing, error correction, and AI. This workshop aims to establish connections among global computing researchers, fostering the exchange of ideas in unconventional computing paradigms, broadly centered around computing on unary data. As AI is really devouring our energy, it is crucial to contemplate the broad implications of unary computing on efficient perception, cognition, AI, and beyond. The workshop serves as a platform to explore the profound impact of unary computing in these domains. Papers that contribute to the theory, applications and system of unary computing are solicited. General topics of interest include (not limited to): Theory: new computing capability with unary encoding (rate coding, temporal coding, their mixture, etc.), unary neural processing, metric formulation, simulation framework, etc. Application: brain-related cognitive tasks, biological perception tasks for embodied AI, non-bio-specific applications that can take advantage of unary encoding or unary computing, etc. System: in/near-sensor unary computing circuit, unary instruction set architecture, programming language, scaling-up unary computing in systems, synergistic computing with other paradigms, etc. Scope: Works that are unpublished, working-in-progress and published are all welcome. Submission must be in English and up to 4 pages in PDF format (excluding references). Please use the sigplan proceedings template of ACM’s acmart Latex class on the official ACM site. https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Submissions shall not include any author identifying information. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop report. Important Dates: Submission deadline: Feb 1, 2026 (AOE) Acceptance date: Feb 13, 2026 Camera ready: March 15, 2026 Workshop: March 22, 2026
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Call for Papers: InSyDe @ EuroSys 2026
https://sites.google.com/view/insyde-eurosys26
Submitted by Tom St. John
The rapid growth of machine learning (ML) has transformed computer systems design, enabling data-driven optimization across hardware, software, and architecture layers. This workshop explores methodologies that integrate ML techniques into the design, configuration, and management of modern computing systems.
The InSyDe workshop aims to accelerate innovation in intelligent, adaptive, and sustainable computing systems. The program will feature invited talks, technical paper sessions, and a panel session consisting of recognized experts in the field.
Topics of interest
ML-assisted compiler optimization
Hardware design space exploration
Intelligent resource allocation for distributed and heterogeneous environments.
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 6th March 2026
Acceptance Notification: 20th March 2026
Submission Guidelines:
We solicit both full papers (8-10 pages) and short/position papers (4-6 pages). Submissions are double-blinded. The page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but excludes references. Please use standard LaTeX or Word ACM templates. All submissions will need to be made via EasyChair. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers from the program committee. Papers will be reviewed for novelty, quality, technical strength, and relevance to the workshop. All accepted papers will be published here.
Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=insyde2026
Call for Papers: MLBench @ ASPLOS’26
https://memani1.github.io/mlbench26/
Submitted by Tom St. John
With evolving system architectures, hardware and software stacks, diverse machine learning (ML) workloads, and data, it is important to understand how these components interact with each other. Well-defined benchmarking procedures help evaluate and reason the performance gains with ML workload-to-system mappings. In this MLBench workshop, we welcome all novel submissions in benchmarking machine learning workloads from all disciplines, such as image and speech recognition, language processing, drug discovery, simulations, and scientific applications.
Topics of Interest
Key problems that we seek to address are:
(i) which representative ML benchmarks cater to workloads seen in industry, national labs, and interdisciplinary sciences;
(ii) how to characterize the ML workloads based on their interaction with hardware;
(iii) which novel aspects of hardware, such as heterogeneity in compute, memory, and networking, will drive their adoption;
(iv) performance modeling and projections to next-generation hardware.
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 6th February 2026
Acceptance Notification 17th February 2026
Submission Guidelines:
We solicit both full papers (8-10 pages) and short/position papers (4-6 pages). Submissions are double-blinded. The page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but excludes references. Please use standard LaTeX or Word ACM templates. All submissions will need to be made via EasyChair. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers from the program committee. Papers will be reviewed for novelty, quality, technical strength, and relevance to the workshop. All accepted papers will be published here.
Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlbench26
Call for Papers: HCDS @ ASPLOS 2026
https://hcds-workshop.github.io/edition/2026/
Submitted by Jie Ren
Heterogeneous and Composable Disaggregated Systems (HCDS), provide a system design approach for reducing the imbalance between workloads resource requirements and the static availability of resources in a computing system, while making room for novel distributed system approaches in processes communication and data exchange. The HCDS workshop aims at exploring the novel research ideas around composable disaggregated systems and their integration with operating systems and software runtimes to maximize the benefit perceived from user workloads.
Topics of Interest
Hardware and Prototyping
Modeling and Evaluation
System software and programming models/tools
Applications and Use cases
Submission Deadline: January 23, 2026 (AoE)
To submit your work, please visit https://hcds26.hotcrp.com/
Organizers
Christian Pinto (IBM Research Europe, Ireland),
Dong Li (UC Merced, CA, USA),
Thaleia Dimitra Doudali (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain),
Christina Giannoula (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems),
Jie Ren (William & Mary, VA, USA),
Dimosthenis Masouros (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Call for Papers: AccML @ HiPEAC 2026
https://accml.dcs.gla.ac.uk/
Submitted by José Cano
8th Workshop on Accelerated Machine Learning (AccML)
Co-located with HiPEAC 2026
January 27, 2026
Kraków, Poland
https://accml.dcs.gla.ac.uk/
https://www.hipeac.net/2026/krakow/#/program/sessions/8255/
Recent advances in diverse AI applications have driven the rise of heterogeneous architectures to accelerate machine learning workloads. Increasing model complexity and deployment demands have spurred the development of high-productivity systems, advanced programming abstractions, specialized runtimes, and tools. Since deep learning models are memory- and compute-intensive, acceleration reduces energy use and enables edge deployment. Beyond CNNs, newer models like Vision Transformers and LLMs introduce broader computational challenges, continually testing hardware, software stacks, and abstractions—highlighting the need for dedicated forums on ML acceleration and system design.
Topics of interest:
– Novel ML/AI systems: heterogeneous multi/many-core systems, GPUs, ASICs and FPGAs;
– Software ML/AI acceleration: languages, primitives, libraries, compilers and frameworks;
– Novel ML/AI hardware accelerators and associated software;
– Emerging semiconductor technologies with applications to ML/AI hardware acceleration;
– ML/AI for the design and tuning of hardware, compilers, and systems;
– Cloud and edge ML/AI computing: hardware and software to accelerate training and inference;
– Hardware-Software co-design techniques for more efficient model training and inference (e.g. addressing sparsity, pruning, etc);
– Training and deployment of huge LLMs (such as GPT, Llama), or large GNNs;
– Computing systems research addressing the privacy and security of ML/AI-dominated systems;
Submission
Papers will be reviewed by the workshop’s technical program committee according to criteria regarding the submission’s quality, relevance to the workshop’s topics, and, foremost, its potential to spark discussions about directions, insights, and solutions in the context of accelerating machine learning. Research papers, case studies, and position papers are all welcome.
In particular, we encourage authors to submit work-in-progress papers: To facilitate sharing of thought-provoking ideas and high-potential though preliminary research, authors are welcome to make submissions describing early-stage, in-progress, and/or exploratory work in order to elicit feedback, discover collaboration opportunities, and spark productive discussions.
The workshop does not have formal proceedings.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: November 21, 2025 December 5, 2025 (Extended)
Notification of decision: December 5, 2025 December 17, 2025
Organizers
José Cano (University of Glasgow)
Valentin Radu (University of Sheffield)
José L. Abellán (University of Murcia)
Marco Corner (Google DeepMind)
Ulysse Beaugnon (Google DeepMind)
Juliana Franco (Google DeepMind)
Call for Papers: IEEE Micro Special Issue on Top Picks from the 2025 Computer Architecture Conferences
https://toppicks2026.hotcrp.com
Submitted by Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee
IEEE Micro will publish its annual “Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences” issue in September/October 2026. This issue collects some of the most significant research papers in computer architecture based on novelty and potential for long-term impact. Any computer architecture paper published in the top conferences of 2025 (including MICRO-58) is eligible. Each Top Picks submission must be based on a single paper, not a combination of multiple papers. The Top Picks Selection Committee will recognize those significant and insightful papers that have the potential to influence the work of computer architects for years to come.
Important Dates
Eligibility
Eligible submissions include papers that make substantial contributions to computer architecture published in 2025 at the following conference venues:
Core Computer Architecture Venues: ASPLOS, ISCA, MICRO, HPCA.
Related and Cross-Disciplinary Venues: MLSys, SC, PACT, ISPASS, IISWC, ICLR, NeurIPS, CVPR, SOSP, OSDI, IEEE S&P, USENIX ATC, NSDI, and NDSS.
Papers from these venues must demonstrate clear and substantial contributions to computer architecture; submissions without such focus may be desk-rejected at the discretion of the PC Chairs.
For papers originating from other venues, authors must obtain prior approval from the Selection Committee Chairs before submission.
Submission Guidelines
To simplify reviewing, there is a mandatory format for submissions. Authors will need to upload the following two documents:
Submissions that do not follow this format will not be reviewed. The first document should contain the names of the authors with a footnote that includes the title of the original conference paper, the full name of the conference, and date of publication.
Please submit here: https://toppicks2026.hotcrp.com
Accepted Paper Guidelines
Authors of accepted papers will receive further instructions on how to prepare the final papers to conform to IEEE Micro‘s guidelines. Final papers should not exceed 6,000 words including no more than 12 references and short bios of authors, with each average-size figure counting as 250 words toward this limit. Papers must have at least 30 percent new content. Final papers will be reviewed again before publication and edited for structure, style, clarity, and readability.
Guest Editors (and Selection Committee Chair and Vice Chair)
Nam Sung Kim (Chair), University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Yingyan (Celine) Lin (Vice Chair), Georgia Tech
Contact the guest editors at MicroToppicks2026 <microtoppicks2026@gmail.com>
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Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Domain-Specialized FPGAs
https://sites.google.com/view/domain-specialized-fpgas-2026/calls
Submitted by Ruthwik Reddy Sunketa
2nd Workshop on Domain-Specialized FPGAs
co-located with ISFPGA 2026
Feb 22, 2026
California, USA
https://sites.google.com/view/domain-specialized-fpgas-2026/
Call for Benchmarks and Call for Wild Ideas & Bold Positions
As FPGA architectures rapidly evolve beyond general-purpose fabrics, the industry and research community is moving toward domain-specialized FPGAs – from ML-centric fabrics to packet processing FPGAs, RFSoCs, emulation-oriented FPGAs, and more. Building on the success of last year’s inaugural event, the 2nd Workshop on Domain-Specialized FPGAs will bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse domains to advance the state of domain-specialized FPGA architectures, benchmarks, and CAD tools. This workshop will provide a forum for sharing benchmarks, sparking creative discussions, and surfacing visionary directions in FPGA specialization.
📣 Call for Benchmarks
We invite the community to contribute real-world workloads from any FPGA application domain as representative benchmarks. This effort is an attempt towards the development of community-driven benchmark suites for FPGA architecture and CAD for applications/domains that are not currently well represented in open-source benchmark suites. Requirements for submitted benchmarks:
Submissions should include:
Selected benchmarks will be featured through poster flash talks and a poster session at the workshop
Submission Link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WDSFPGA2026
📣 Call for Wild Ideas & Bold Positions
We are seeking early-stage, unconventional, and forward-looking ideas on domain-specialized FPGA architectures and CAD to spark creative dialogue and inspire new directions for the field.
We welcome position or idea papers that explore speculative concepts, qualitative insights, or emerging research visions. Some guidelines are:
Submissions should:
Selected submissions will be given the opportunity for a 10-15 minute presentation, followed by an interactive discussion
👉 Submission Link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WDSFPGA2026
Organizers
Contact: Aman Arora (email: aman.kbm@asu.edu), Abhishek Jain (abhishek.kumar.jain@amd.com)
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Call for Papers: ACM CF’26 – Computing Frontiers 2026
https://www.computingfrontiers.org/2026/
Submitted by Kun Qin (Publicity Chair of CF'26)
23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF’26)
Catania, Sicily, Italy,
May 19-21
Computing Frontiers (CF) is an eclectic, interdisciplinary, collaborative community of researchers investigating emerging technologies in the broad field of computing: our common goal is to drive the scientific breakthroughs that support society.
CF’s broad scope is driven by recent technological advances in wide-ranging fields impacting computing, such as novel computing models and paradigms, advancements in hardware, network and systems architecture, cloud computing, novel device physics and materials, new application domains of artificial intelligence, big data analytics, wearables, and IoT. The boundaries between the state-of-the-art and revolutionary innovation constitute the advancing frontiers of science, engineering, and information technology — and are the CF community’s focus. CF provides a venue to share, discuss, and advance broad, forward-thinking, early research on the future of computing and welcomes work on a wide spectrum of computer systems, from embedded and hand-held/wearable devices to supercomputers and data centers.
We seek original research contributions at the frontiers of a wide range of topics, including novel computational models and algorithms, new application paradigms, computer architecture (from embedded to HPC systems), computing hardware, memory technologies, networks, storage solutions, compilers, and runtime environments.
This year, CF also features a Special Session on Collaborative Projects addressing the conference’s key topics, including but not limited to those listed below. We invite submissions from collaborative research initiatives funded by agencies worldwide such as the EU, DARPA, IARPA, DOE, ESA, NASA, and others. The goal of this session is to enhance the visibility of ongoing research and development projects and to foster collaboration within the community. It also serves as a platform to discuss future research projects and explore potential partnerships.
Topics of interest
We strongly encourage submissions in other emerging fields of computing, and welcome submissions that propose new directions of research and out-of-the-box solutions for grand computing challenges. If you are in doubt whether your work fits Computing Frontiers, please contact the program co-chairs.
Important Dates
Organizers
General Chair
Program Chairs
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Call for Papers: GPGPU @ ASPLOS 2026
https://mocalabucm.github.io/gpgpu2026/
Submitted by Daoxuan Xu
18th Workshop on General Purpose Processing with GPU (GPGPU 2026)
co-located ASPLOS’26
Pittsburgh, USA
March 22/23, 2026
https://mocalabucm.github.io/gpgpu2026/
GPUs are delivering more and more computing power required by modern society. With the growing popularity of massively parallel devices, users demand better performance, programmability, reliability, and security. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss massively parallel applications, environments, platforms, and architectures, as well as infrastructures that facilitate related research.
Topics of Interest:
Authors are invited to submit papers of original research in the general area of GPU computing and architectures
Important Dates (11:59 pm, Anywhere on Earth)
Papers due: Jan 14, 2026
Notification: Feb 8, 2026
Submission Guidelines
Full paper submissions must be in PDF format for A4 or US letter-size paper. They must not exceed 6 pages (excluding references) in standard ACM two-column conference format (review mode, with page numbers). Authors can select if they want to reveal their identity in the submission. Templates for ACM format are available for Microsoft Word, and LaTeX at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Please use the “sigconf” proceedings template.
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=gpgpu2026
Call for Presentations: Arch4Health @ HPCA 2026
https://events.safari.ethz.ch/hpca26-arch4health/
Submitted by Nika Mansourighiasi
2nd Workshop on Architecture for Health (Arch4Health 2026)
31st January 2026, Sydney, Australia
co-located with HPCA 2026
https://events.safari.ethz.ch/hpca26-arch4health/
A full-day workshop exploring the key computational challenges in health-related applications and the vital role of computer architecture in overcoming them to advance healthcare
Summary:
Opportunities. Recent biotechnological advances enable high-throughput, low-cost, and accurate biological data generation (e.g., using genome sequencing, medical imaging, and continuous wearable sensing). This wealth of data enables unique opportunities for advancing healthcare.
Challenges. Despite these opportunities, efficiently analyzing large-scale biological data poses significant challenges for conventional computing systems. These systems often cannot keep up with the rate at which data is generated, and they face additional constraints related to energy efficiency, scalability, privacy, and security. High-throughput processing is especially critical in clinical settings, where faster analysis can improve patient outcomes. Therefore, there is a need to design systems to enable high-performance, energy-efficient, private, and secure analysis of biological data.
Architecture for Health. This workshop will focus on identifying key computational challenges in health-related applications and discussing how computer architects can contribute to advancing healthcare by addressing these challenges.
Fostering Diverse and Cross-Disciplinary Discussions. Since cross-disciplinary discussions are crucial for better identifying challenges in real-world health-related applications, we aim to foster open discussions and cooperation between researchers with diverse backgrounds (i.e., from both computer architecture and health sciences communities, industry, and academia).
Call for Presentations:
This workshop consists of talks on the general topic of computing system designs for healthcare applications, as well as new trends and bottlenecks in data-intensive healthcare applications. There are slots available for talks. If you are interested in delivering a talk on related topics, please submit your talk’s title and extended abstract via this form: https://forms.gle/8ZmbDWH6szNQBchE8
Topics of Interest
Importanta Dates
Organizers:
Nika Mansouri Ghiasi, ETH Zurich
Konstantina Koliogeorgi, ETH Zurich
Onur Mutlu, ETH Zurich
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