Abstract

We introduce the Bayesian Compiler Optimization framework (BaCO), a general purpose autotuner for modern compilers targeting CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. BaCO provides the flexibility needed to handle the requirements of modern autotuning tasks. Particularly, it deals with permutation, ordered, and continuous parameter types along with both known and unknown parameter constraints. To reason about these parameter types and efficiently deliver high-quality code, BaCO uses Bayesian optimization algorithms specialized towards the autotuning domain. We demonstrate BaCO's effectiveness on three modern compiler systems: TACO, RISE & ELEVATE, and HPVM2FPGA for CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs respectively. For these domains, BaCO outperforms current state-of-the-art autotuners by delivering on average 1.39x-1.89x faster code with a tiny search budget, and BaCO is able to reach expert-level performance 2.89x-8.77x faster.

BibTeX

@article{hellsten2024,
  title={BaCO: A Fast and Portable Bayesian Compiler Optimization Framework},
  author={Erik Hellsten and Artur Souza and Johannes Lenfers and Rubens Lacouture and Olivia Hsu and Adel Ejjeh and Fredrik Kjolstad and Michel Steuwer and Kunle Olukotun and Luigi Nardi},
  journal={International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (accepted)},
  year={2024},
  month={April}
}