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.

Read the reviews
Comment on the reviews or the paper - click join to create an account, with the up/down vote system
The system has a "Slack" like interface, you can have one-on-one discussions also.
Post questions/comments on the General channel.

Conferences available so far: ASPLOS 2025, ISCA 2025, MICRO 2025

Other pages: About, FAQ, Prompts used

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ReGate: Enabling Power Gating in Neural Processing Units The energy efficiency of neural processing units (NPU) plays a critical role in developing sustainable data centers. Our study with different generations of NPU chips reveals that 30%–72% of their energy consumption is contributed by static power ......	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:28:20.039Z
Flexing RISC-V Instruction Subset Processors to Extreme Edge This paper presents an automated approach for designing processors that support a subset of the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) for a new class of applications at Extreme Edge. The electronics used in extreme edge applications must be area ...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:28:08.935Z
EcoCore: Dynamic Core Management for Improving Energy Efficiency in Latency-Critical Applications Modern data centers face increasing pressure to improve energy efficiency while guaranteeing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for Latency-Critical (LC) applications. Resource management in public cloud environments, typically operating at the node or ...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:27:57.940Z
Citadel: Rethinking Memory Allocation to Safeguard Against Inter-Domain Rowhammer Exploits Rowhammer is a hardware security vulnerability at the heart of every DRAM-based memory system. Despite its discovery a decade ago, comprehensive defenses in current systems remain elusive, while the probability of successful attacks grows with DRAM ....	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:27:46.906Z
Efficient Security Support for CXL Memory through Adaptive Incremental Offloaded (Re-)Encryption Current DRAM technologies face critical scaling limitations, significantly impacting the expansion of memory bandwidth and capacity required by modern data-intensive applications. Compute eXpress Link (CXL) emerges as a promising technology to addres...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:27:35.752Z
CryptoBTB: A Secure Hierarchical BTB for Diverse Instruction Footprint Workloads Timing attacks leveraging shared resources on a CPU are a growing concern. Branch Target Buffer (BTB), a crucial component of high-performance processors, is shared among threads and privileged spaces. Recently, researchers discovered numerous ...ACM...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:27:24.691Z
COSMOS: RL-Enhanced Locality-Aware Counter Cache Optimization for Secure Memory Secure memory systems employing AES-CTR encryption face significant performance challenges due to high counter (CTR) cache miss rates, especially in applications with irregular memory access patterns. These high miss rates increase memory traffic and...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:27:13.552Z
Security and Performance Implications of GPU Cache Eviction Priority Hints NVIDIA provides cache eviction priority hints such asevict_firstandevict_laston recent GPUs. These hints allow users to specify the eviction priority that should be used for individual cache lines to improve cache utilization. However, NVIDIA does no...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:27:02.085Z
Leveraging Chiplet-Locality for Efficient Memory Mapping in Multi-Chip Module GPUs While the multi-chip module (MCM) design allows GPUs to scale compute and memory capabilities through multi-chip integration, it introduces memory system non-uniformity, particularly when a thread accesses resources in remote chiplets. In this work, ...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:26:51.013Z
C3ache: Towards Hierarchical Cache-Centric Computing for Sparse Matrix Multiplication on GPGPUs Sparse matrix multiplications (SPMMs) are fundamental kernels in various domains and are highly demanded to be executed on general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs). However, it is a challenge to efficiently execute SPMMs across varying spar...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:26:39.608Z
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Characterizing and Optimizing Realistic Workloads on a Commercial Compute-in-SRAM Device Compute- in-SRAM architectures offer a promising approach to achieving higher performance and energy efficiency across a range of data-intensive applications. However, prior evaluations have largely relied on simulators or small prototypes, limiting ...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:26:28.524Z
SuperSFQ: A Hardware Design to Realize High-Frequency Superconducting Processors Superconducting computing using single flux quantum (SFQ) technology has been recognized as a promising post-Moore’s law era technology thanks to its extremely low power and high performance. Therefore, many researchers have proposed various SFQ-base...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:26:17.475Z
ColumnDisturb: Understanding Column-based Read Disturbance in Real DRAM Chips and Implications for Future Systems We experimentally demonstrate a new widespread read disturbance phenomenon, ColumnDisturb, in real commodity DRAM chips. By repeatedly opening or keeping a DRAM row (aggressor row) open, we show that it is possible to disturb DRAM cells through aDRAM...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:26:06.306Z
NetSparse: In-Network Acceleration of Distributed Sparse Kernels Many hardware accelerators have been proposed to accelerate sparse computations. When these accelerators are placed in the nodes of a large cluster, distributed sparse applications become heavily communication-bound. Unfortunately, software solutions...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:25:54.958Z
SeaCache: Efficient and Adaptive Caching for Sparse Accelerators Sparse tensor computations are highly memory-bound, making on-chip data reuse in SRAM buffers critical to the performance of domain-specific sparse accelerators. On-demand caches are commonly used in recent sparse accelerators, due to the advantage o...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:25:43.865Z
Quartz: A Reconfigurable, Distributed-Memory Accelerator for Sparse Applications Iterative sparse matrix computations lie at the heart of many scientific computing and graph analytics algorithms. On conventional systems, their irregular memory accesses and low arithmetic intensity create challenging memory bandwidth bottlenecks. ...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:25:32.854Z
Elevating Temporal Prefetching Through Instruction Correlation Temporal prefetchers can learn from irregular memory accesses and hide access latencies. As the on-chip storage technology for temporal prefetchers’ metadata advances, enabling the development of viable commercial prefetchers, it becomes evident that...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:25:21.464Z
Ghost Threading: Helper-Thread Prefetching for Real Systems Memory latency is the bottleneck for many modern workloads. One popular solution from literature to handle this is helper threading, a technique that issues light-weight prefetching helper thread(s) extracted from the original application to bring da...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:25:10.101Z
Micro-MAMA: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Multicore Prefetching Online reinforcement learning (RL) holds promise for microarchitectural techniques like prefetching. Its ability to adapt to changing and previously-unseen scenarios makes it a versatile technique. However, when multiple RL-operated components compet...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:24:58.796Z
MX+: Pushing the Limits of Microscaling Formats for Efficient Large Language Model Serving Reduced- precision data formats are crucial for cost-effective serving of large language models (LLMs). While numerous reduced-precision formats have been introduced thus far, they often require intrusive modifications to the software frameworks or a...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:24:47.792Z
AxCore: A Quantization-Aware Approximate GEMM Unit for LLM Inference Large Language Models (LLMs) have become foundational to modern natural language processing, yet their immense computational and memory demands pose major obstacles for efficient inference. Transformer-based LLMs rely heavily on floating-point genera...	MICRO-2025	A	2	2025-11-05 01:23:42.767Z
Misam: Machine Learning Assisted Dataflow Selection in Accelerators for Sparse Matrix Multiplication The performance of Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpGEMM), a foundational operation in scientific computing and machine learning, is highly sensitive to the diverse and dynamic sparsity patterns of its input matrices. While specialized hardware...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:23:35.230Z
Bootes: Boosting the Efficiency of Sparse Accelerators Using Spectral Clustering Sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is crucial in many applications, with numerous recent efforts focused on optimizing it. The row-wise product has emerged as a favorable SpGEMM dataflow due to its balanced performance, but it alone is ...A...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:23:24.144Z
A Probabilistic Perspective on Tiling Sparse Tensor Algebra Sparse tensor algebra computations are often memory-bound due to irregular access patterns and low arithmetic intensity. We present D2T2 (Data-Driven Tensor Tiling), a framework that optimizes static coordinate-space tiling schemes to minimize memory...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:23:13.075Z
Chasoň: Supporting Cross HBM Channel Data Migration to Enable Efficient Sparse Algebraic Acceleration High bandwidth memory (HBM) equipped sparse accelerators are emerging as a new class of accelerators that offer concurrent accesses to data and parallel execution to mitigate the memory bound behavior of sparse kernels. However, because of their ...A...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:23:02.055Z
Rasengan: A Transition Hamiltonian-based Approximation Algorithm for Solving Constrained Binary Optimization Problems Constrained binary optimization is a representative NP-hard problem in various domains, including engineering, scheduling, and finance. Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) provide a promising methodology for solving this problem by integrating the ...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:22:51.064Z
MUSS-TI: Multi-level Shuttle Scheduling for Large-Scale Entanglement Module Linked Trapped-Ion Trapped- ion computing is a leading architecture in the pursuit of scalable and high fidelity quantum systems. Modular quantum architectures based on photonic interconnects offer a promising path for scaling trapped ion devices. In this design, multi...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:22:40.067Z
OneAdapt: Resource-Adaptive Compilation of Measurement-Based Quantum Computing for Photonic Hardware Measurement- based quantum computing (MBQC), a.k.a. one-way quantum computing (1WQC), is a universal quantum computing model, which is particularly well-suited for photonic platforms. In this model, computation is driven by measurements on an entangl...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:22:29.063Z
Vegapunk: Accurate and Fast Decoding for Quantum LDPC Codes with Online Hierarchical Algorithm and Sparse Accelerator Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (qLDPC) codes are a promising class of quantum error-correcting codes that exhibit constant-rate encoding and high error thresholds, thereby facilitating scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, real-time...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:22:18.072Z
ATR: Out-of-Order Register Release Exploiting Atomic Regions Modern superscalar processors require large physical register files to support a high number of in-flight instructions, which is crucial for achieving higher ILP and IPC. Conventional register renaming techniques release physical registers conservati...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:22:07.037Z
SHADOW: Simultaneous Multi-Threading Architecture with Asymmetric Threads Many important applications exhibit shifting demands between instruction-level parallelism (ILP) and thread-level parallelism (TLP) due to irregular sparsity and unpredictable memory access patterns. Conventional CPUs optimize for one but fail to bal...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:21:56.060Z
Titan-I: An Open-Source, High Performance RISC-V Vector Core Vector processing has evolved from early systems like the CDC STAR-100 and Cray-1 to modern ISAs like ARM’s Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) and RISC-V Vector (RVV) extensions. However, scaling vector processing for contemporary workloads presents ......	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:21:45.068Z
Optimizing All-to-All Collective Communication with Fault Tolerance on Torus Networks Large- scale distributed processing is extensively employed for large model inference and training, such as Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRMs) and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. However, the All-to-All collective, with its complex point-to...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:21:33.869Z
SkipReduce: (Interconnection) Network Sparsity to Accelerate Distributed Machine Learning The interconnection network is a critical component for building scalable systems, as its communication bandwidth directly impacts the collective communication performance of distributed training. In this work, we exploit interconnection network spar...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:21:22.584Z
Characterizing the Efficiency of Distributed Training: A Power, Performance, and Thermal Perspective The rapid scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has pushed training workloads far beyond the limits of single-node analysis, demanding a deeper understanding of how these models behave across large-scale, multi-GPU systems. In this paper, we presen...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:21:11.615Z
NetZIP: Algorithm/Hardware Co-design of In-network Lossless Compression for Distributed Large Model Training In distributed large model training, the long communication time required to exchange large volumes of gradients and activations among GPUs dominates the training time. To reduce the communication times, lossy or lossless compression of gradients and...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:21:00.575Z
A TRRIP Down Memory Lane: Temperature-Based Re-Reference Interval Prediction For Instruction Caching Modern mobile CPU software pose challenges for conventional instruction cache replacement policies due to their complex runtime behavior causing high reuse distance between executions of the same instruction. Mobile code commonly suffers from large ....	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:20:49.605Z
Drishti: Do Not Forget Slicing While Designing Last-Level Cache Replacement Policies for Many-Core Systems High- performance Last-level Cache (LLC) replacement policies mitigate off-chip memory access latency by intelligently determining which cache lines to retain in the LLC. State-of-the-art replacement policies significantly outperform policies like LR...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:20:38.565Z
Multi-Stream Squash Reuse for Control-Independent Processors Single- core performance remains crucial for mitigating the serial bottleneck in applications, according to Amdahl’s Law. However, hard-to-predict branches pose significant challenges to achieve high Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP) due to frequen...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:20:27.548Z
LoopFrog: In-Core Hint-Based Loop Parallelization To scale ILP, designers build deeper and wider out-of-order superscalar CPUs. However, this approach incurs quadratic scaling complexity, area, and energy costs with each generation. While small loops may benefit from increased instruction-window siz...	MICRO-2025	A	3	2025-11-05 01:20:16.208Z

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