Summary of Cafeen: a Cooperative Approach For Energy Efficient Nocs with Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning, by Kamil Khan et al.
CAFEEN: A Cooperative Approach for Energy Efficient NoCs with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
by Kamil Khan, Sudeep Pasricha
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed framework, CAFEEN, aims to optimize power management in high-performance Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures by employing both heuristic-based fine-grained and machine learning-based coarse-grained power-gating for energy-efficient operation. The system uses a fine-grained method to activate only essential NoC buffers during lower network loads, switching to a coarse-grained method at peak loads using multi-agent reinforcement learning to minimize compounding wake-up overhead. This adaptive approach balances power-efficiency with performance, resulting in significant energy savings of 2.60x for single application workloads and 4.37x for multi-application workloads compared to state-of-the-art NoC power-gating frameworks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary CAFEEN is a new way to save energy in computer networks called Network-on-Chip (NoC). This system uses two different methods to turn off parts of the network when they’re not being used. The first method turns off small parts of the network, and the second method turns off bigger parts of the network. This helps to conserve energy and keep the network running smoothly. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Machine learning * Reinforcement learning
