Machine learning to schedule optimization passes

This paper used machine learning to select and order LLVM optimization
passes. Apparently it worked pretty well.




CompilerDream: Learning a Compiler World Model for General Code Optimization


Effective code optimization in compilers is crucial for computer and
software engineering. The success of these optimizations primarily depends
on the selection and ordering of the optimization passes applied to the
code. While most compilers rely on a fixed sequence of optimization
passes, current methods to find the optimal sequence either employ
impractically slow search algorithms or learning methods that struggle to
generalize to code unseen during training. We introduce CompilerDream, a
model-based reinforcement learning approach to general code optimization.
CompilerDream comprises a compiler world model that accurately simulates
the intrinsic properties of optimization passes and an agent trained on
this model to produce effective optimization strategies. By training on a
large-scale program dataset, CompilerDream is equipped to serve as a
general code optimizer across various application scenarios and
source-code languages. Our extensive experiments first highlight
CompilerDream's strong optimization capabilities for autotuning, where it
leads the CompilerGym leaderboard. More importantly, the zero-shot
generalization ability of large-scale trained compiler world model and
agent, excels across diverse datasets, surpassing LLVM's built-in
optimizations and other state-of-the-art methods in both settings of value
prediction and end-to-end code optimization.


Full paper at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16077


Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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