Architectural Prisms

Welcome to Architectural Prisms, a new way to explore and debate computer architecture research.

Our mission is to explore the future of academic dialogue. Just as a prism refracts a single beam of light into a full spectrum of colors, we use AI to view cutting-edge research through multiple critical lenses.

Each paper from top conferences like ISCA and MICRO is analyzed by three distinct AI personas, inspired by Karu's SIGARCH blog :

The Guardian: Evaluates the rigor and soundness of the work.
The Synthesizer: Places the research in its broader academic context.
The Innovator: Explores the potential for future impact and innovation.

These AI-generated reviews are not verdicts; they are catalysts. The papers are already published. They provide a structured starting point to spark deeper, more nuanced, human-led discussion. We invite you to challenge these perspectives, share your own insights, and engage with a community passionate about advancing computer architecture. Ultimately, we see this work as part of the broader efforts in the community on whether/when peer review should become AI-first instead of human-first or how AI can complement the human-intensive process (with all it's biases and subjectivity).

Join the experiment and help us shape the conversation. You can participate in the following ways.

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Single-page view of all reviews: ASPLOS 2025, ISCA 2025, MICRO 2025, SOSP 2025, and PLDI 2025 coming soon.

Interactive reviews: ASPLOS 2025, ISCA 2025, MICRO 2025

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RAP: Reconfigurable Automata Processor Regular pattern matching is essential for applications such as text processing, malware detection, network security, and bioinformatics. Recent in-memory automata processors have significantly advanced the energy and memory efficiency over convention...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:50:51.133Z
EOD: Enabling Low Latency GNN Inference via Near-Memory Concatenate Aggregation As online services based on graph databases increasingly integrate with machine learning, serving low-latency Graph Neural Network (GNN) inference for individual requests has become a critical challenge. Real-time GNN inference services operate in an...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:50:19.010Z
DReX: Accurate and Scalable Dense Retrieval Acceleration via Algorithmic-Hardware Codesign Retrieval- augmented generation (RAG) supplements large language models (LLM) with information retrieval to ensure up-to-date, accurate, factually grounded, and contextually relevant outputs. RAG implementations often employ dense retrieval methods a...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:49:46.820Z
ANSMET: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Near-Memory Processing and Hybrid Early Termination Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is a fundamental operation in modern vector databases to efficiently retrieve nearby vectors to a given query. On general-purpose computing platforms, ANNS is found not only to be highly memory-bound due to ...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:49:14.808Z
NetCrafter: Tailoring Network Traffic for Non-Uniform Bandwidth Multi-GPU Systems Multiple Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are being integrated into systems to meet the computing demands of emerging workloads. To continuously support more GPUs in a system, it is important to connect them efficiently and effectively. To this end, ...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:48:42.797Z
Garibaldi: A Pairwise Instruction-Data Management for Enhancing Shared Last-Level Cache Performance in Server Workloads Modern CPUs suffer from the frontend bottleneck because the instruction footprint of server workloads exceeds the private cache capacity. Prior works have examined the CPU components or private cache to improve the instruction hit rate. The large ......	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:48:10.786Z
Evaluating Ruche Networks: Physically Scalable, Cost-Effective, Bandwidth-Flexible NoCs 2- D mesh has been widely used as an on-chip network topology, because of its low design complexity and physical scalability. However, its poor latency and throughput scaling have been well-noted in the past. Previous solutions to overcome its ...ACM...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:47:38.612Z
The Sparsity-Aware LazyGPU Architecture General- Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are essential accelerators in data-parallel applications, including machine learning, and physical simulations. Although GPUs utilize fast wavefront context switching to hide memory access latency, me...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:47:06.605Z
Light-weight Cache Replacement for Instruction Heavy Workloads The last-level cache (LLC) is the last chance for memory accesses from the processor to avoid the costly latency of accessing the main memory. In recent years, an increasing number of instruction heavy workloads have put pressure on the last-level ca...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:46:34.595Z
Transitive Array: An Efficient GEMM Accelerator with Result Reuse Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized artificial intelligence, yet their deployment faces significant memory and computational challenges, especially in resource-constrained environments. Quantization techni...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:46:02.427Z
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RAGO: Systematic Performance Optimization for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Serving Retrieval- augmented generation (RAG) is emerging as a popular approach for reliable LLM serving. However, efficient RAG serving remains an open challenge due to the rapid emergence of many RAG variants and the substantial differences in workload ......	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:45:30.244Z
Bishop: Sparsified Bundling Spiking Transformers on Heterogeneous Cores with Error-constrained Pruning Spiking neural networks(SNNs) have emerged as a promising solution for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices and neuromorphic hardware due to their low power consumption. Spiking transformers, which integrate attention mechanisms similar to...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:44:58.208Z
Phi: Leveraging Pattern-based Hierarchical Sparsity for High-Efficiency Spiking Neural Networks Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are gaining attention for their energy efficiency and biological plausibility, utilizing 0-1 activation sparsity through spike-driven computation. While existing SNN accelerators exploit this sparsity to skip zero ...AC...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:44:25.983Z
Single Spike Artificial Neural Networks Spiking neural networks (SNNs) circumvent the need for large scale arithmetic using techniques inspired by biology. However, SNNs are designed with fundamentally different algorithms from ANNs, which have benefited from a rich history of theoretical ...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:43:53.956Z
ATiM: Autotuning Tensor Programs for Processing-in-DRAM Processing- in-DRAM (DRAM-PIM) has emerged as a promising technology for accelerating memory-intensive operations in modern applications, such as Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite its potential, current software stacks for DRAM-PIM face significa...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:43:21.855Z
HeterRAG: Heterogeneous Processing-in-Memory Acceleration for Retrieval-augmented Generation By integrating external knowledge bases,Retrieval-augmented Generation(RAG) enhances natural language generation for knowledge-intensive scenarios and specialized domains, producing content that is both more informative and personalized. RAG systems ...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:42:49.771Z
OptiPIM: Optimizing Processing-in-Memory Acceleration Using Integer Linear Programming Processing- in-memory (PIM) accelerators provide superior performance and energy efficiency to conventional architectures by minimizing off-chip data movement and exploiting extensive internal memory bandwidth for computation. However, efficient PIM ...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:42:17.293Z
MeshSlice: Efficient 2D Tensor Parallelism for Distributed DNN Training In distributed training of large DNN models, the scalability of one-dimensional (1D) tensor parallelism (TP) is limited because of its high communication cost. 2D TP attains extra scalability and efficiency because it reduces communication relative t...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:41:45.275Z
Ecco: Improving Memory Bandwidth and Capacity for LLMs via Entropy-Aware Cache Compression Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated transformative capabilities across diverse artificial intelligence applications, yet their deployment is hindered by substantial memory and computational demands, especially in resource-constrained ...AC...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:41:13.012Z
DREAM: Enabling Low-Overhead Rowhammer Mitigation via Directed Refresh Management This paper focuses on Memory-Controller (MC) side Rowhammer mitigation. MC-side mitigation consists of two parts: First, a tracker to identify the aggressor rows. Second, a command to let the MC inform the DRAM chip to perform victim-refresh for the ...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:40:40.923Z
PuDHammer: Experimental Analysis of Read Disturbance Effects of Processing-using-DRAM in Real DRAM Chips Processing-using-DRAM (PuD) is a promisingparadigmfor alleviating the data movement bottleneck using a DRAM array’s massive internal parallelism and bandwidth to execute very wide data-parallel operations. Performing a PuD operation involves activati...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:40:08.915Z
MoPAC: Efficiently Mitigating Rowhammer with Probabilistic Activation Counting Rowhammer has worsened over the last decade. Existing in-DRAM solutions, such as TRR, were broken with simple patterns. In response, the recent DDR5 JEDEC standards modify the DRAM array to enablePer-Row Activation Counters (PRAC)for tracking aggress...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:39:36.929Z
HardHarvest: Hardware-Supported Core Harvesting for Microservices In microservice environments, users size their virtual machines (VMs) for peak loads, leaving cores idle much of the time. To improve core utilization and overall throughput, it is instructive to consider a recently-introduced software technique for ...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:39:04.788Z
A4: Microarchitecture-Aware LLC Management for Datacenter Servers with Emerging I/O Devices In modern server CPUs, the Last-Level Cache (LLC) serves not only as a victim cache for higher-level private caches but also as a buffer for low-latency DMA transfers between CPU cores and I/O devices through Direct Cache Access (DCA). However, prior...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:38:32.777Z
Dynamic Load Balancer in Intel Xeon Scalable Processor: Performance Analyses, Enhancements, and Guidelines The rapid increase in inter-host networking speed has challenged host processing capabilities, as bursty traffic and uneven load distribution among host CPU cores give rise to excessive queuing delays and service latency variances. To cost-efficientl...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:38:00.441Z
Cramming a Data Center into One Cabinet, a Co-Exploration of Computing and Hardware Architecture of Waferscale Chip The rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly increased hardware demands. Wafer-scale chips, which integrate numerous compute units on an entire wafer, offer a high-density computing solution for data centers and can exten...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:37:28.380Z
Leveraging control-flow similarity to reduce branch predictor cold effects in microservices Modern datacenter applications commonly adopt a microservice software architecture, where an application is decomposed into smaller interconnected microservices communicating via the network. These microservices often operate under strict latency ......	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:36:56.256Z
Enabling Ahead Prediction with Practical Energy Constraints Accurate branch predictors require multiple cycles to produce a prediction, and that latency hurts processor performance. "Ahead prediction" solves the performance problem by starting the prediction early. Unfortunately, this means making the predict...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:36:24.084Z
LIA: A Single-GPU LLM Inference Acceleration with Cooperative AMX-Enabled CPU-GPU Computation and CXL Offloading The limited memory capacity of single GPUs constrains large language model (LLM) inference, necessitating cost-prohibitive multi-GPU deployments or frequent performance-limiting CPU-GPU transfers over slow PCIe. In this work, we first benchmark recen...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:35:51.839Z
AiF: Accelerating On-Device LLM Inference Using In-Flash Processing While large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance across diverse application domains, their substantial memory demands present challenges, especially on personal devices with limited DRAM capacity. Recent LLM inference engines have .....	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:35:19.650Z
LUT Tensor Core: A Software-Hardware Co-Design for LUT-Based Low-Bit LLM Inference Large Language Model (LLM) inference becomes resource-intensive, prompting a shift toward low-bit model weights to reduce the memory footprint and improve efficiency. Such low-bit LLMs necessitate the mixed-precision matrix multiplication (mpGEMM), a...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:34:47.691Z
Oaken: Fast and Efficient LLM Serving with Online-Offline Hybrid KV Cache Quantization Modern Large Language Model (LLM) serving system batches multiple requests to achieve high throughput, while batching attention operations is challenging, renderingmemory bandwidtha critical bottleneck. Today, to mitigate this issue, the community .....	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:34:15.579Z
In-Storage Acceleration of Retrieval Augmented Generation as a Service Retrieval- augmented generation (RAG) services are rapidly gaining adoption in enterprise settings as they combine information retrieval systems (e.g., databases) with large language models (LLMs) to enhance response generation and reduce hallucinati...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:33:43.502Z
UPP: Universal Predicate Pushdown to Smart Storage In large-scale analytics, in-storage processing (ISP) can significantly boost query performance by letting ISP engines (e.g., FPGAs) pre-select only the relevant data before sending them to databases. This reduces the amount of not only data transfer...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:33:11.532Z
ANVIL: An In-Storage Accelerator for Name–Value Data Stores Name– value pairs (NVPs) are a widely-used abstraction to organize data in millions of applications. At a high level, an NVP associates a name (e.g., array index, key, hash) with each value in a collection of data. Specific NVP data store formats can...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:32:39.411Z
RTSpMSpM: Harnessing Ray Tracing for Efficient Sparse Matrix Computations The significance of sparse matrix algebra pushes the development of sparse matrix accelerators. Despite the general reception of using hardware accelerators to address application demands and the convincement of substantial performance gain, integrat...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:32:07.183Z
Dadu-Corki: Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Embodied AI-powered Robotic Manipulation Embodied AI robots have the potential to fundamentally improve the way human beings live and manufacture. Continued progress in the burgeoning field of using large language models to control robots depends critically on an efficient computing substra...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:31:34.998Z
HiPER: Hierarchically-Composed Processing for Efficient Robot Learning-Based Control Learning- Based Model Predictive Control (LMPC) is a class of algorithms that enhances Model Predictive Control (MPC) by including machine learning methods, improving robot navigation in complex environments. However, the combination of machine learn...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:31:02.952Z
Qtenon: Towards Low-Latency Architecture Integration for Accelerating Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms have shown great promise in leveraging the computational potential of quantum systems. However, the efficiency of these algorithms is severely constrained by the limitations of current quantum hardware architecture...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:30:30.518Z
Rethinking Prefetching for Intermittent Computing Prefetching improves performance by reducing cache misses. However, conventional prefetchers are too aggressive to serve batteryless energy harvesting systems (EHSs) where energy efficiency is the utmost design priority due to weak input energy and t...	ISCA-2025	A	3	2025-11-04 05:29:58.453Z

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