Learning Independent Program and Architecture Representations for Generalizable Performance Modeling

Abstract

This paper proposes PerfVec, a novel deep learning-based performance modeling framework that learns high-dimensional, independent/orthogonal program and microarchitecture representations. Once learned, a program representation can be used to predict its performance on any microarchitecture, and likewise, a microarchitecture representation can be applied in the performance prediction of any program. Additionally, PerfVec yields a foundation model that captures the performance essence of instructions, which can be directly used by developers in numerous performance modeling related tasks without incurring its training cost. The evaluation demonstrates that PerfVec is more general, efficient, and accurate than previous approaches