by Amir Yazdanbakhsh and Jan Wassenberg on Oct 8, 2025 | Tags: Algorithmic Innovation, Computer Architecture, Computer System, Generality & Programmability, Hardware Lottery, Hardware-Software Co-design, Machine Learning, MatMul, Moore's Law, Opinion, Research Perspective, Transformer
Matrix multiplication dominates AI hardware and research. Betting everything on MatMul risks an innovation monoculture — it’s time to diversify our compute bets.
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by Amir Yazdanbakhsh on Feb 4, 2025 | Tags: abstraction, AGI, compound AI systems, Computer Architecture, Computer Systems, intelligent systems, Machine Learning, Uncertainty
“The growing complexity of intelligent systems can outpace the ability of conventional computing abstractions to support them effectively.” IET REACH 2024, Amir Yazdanbakhsh. I came across this observation by Edsger Dijkstra recently while scrolling X, and...
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by Shvetank Prakash and Vijay Janapa Reddi on Jan 7, 2025 | Tags: AI Agents, Benchmarks, Datasets, Machine Learning
Introduction The rise of large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) presents new opportunities to build innovative tools and is already enabling revolutionary AI-based tools in various domains. However, a significant gap remains in the...
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by Jay Shah on Oct 8, 2024 | Tags: Accelerators, Machine Learning, Programming
General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) is a fundamental operation in machine learning and scientific computing. It is the classic example of an algorithm that benefits greatly from GPU acceleration due to its high degree of data parallelism. More recently, efficient...
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by Shvetank Prakash, Emil Njor, Colby Banbury, Matthew Stewart, Vijay Janapa Reddi on May 6, 2024 | Tags: deep learning, Machine Learning, TinyML
At the dawn of the 21st century, Mark Weiser envisioned a world where computers would weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life, becoming indistinguishable from it. This prophecy of ubiquitous computing has not only materialized but has evolved beyond...
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