GRAPHSPY: Fused Program Semantic Embedding through Graph Neural Networks for Memory Efficiency

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-5-2021

Abstract

Production software oftentimes suffers from unnecessary memory inefficiencies caused by inappropriate use of data structures, programming abstractions, or conservative compiler optimizations. Unfortunately, existing works often adopt a whole-program fine-grained monitoring method incurring incredibly high overhead. This work proposes a learning-aided approach to identify unnecessary memory operations, by applying several prevalent graph neural network models to extract program semantics with respect to program structure, execution semantics and dynamic states. Results show that the proposed approach captures memory inefficiencies with high accuracy of 95.27% and only around 17% overhead of the state-of-the-art.

Publication Title

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

ISBN

9781665432740

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