Move the Roof: Model-driven Methodology for Designing Efficient Deep Learning Architectures
Paper i proceeding, 2026

Designing efficient architectures for Deep Learning (DL) at the edge is challenging, as the growing demands of emerging models contrast with the tight resource constraints. This work proposes a model-driven methodology for the fast exploration of large design spaces, producing efficient architectures under performance constraints. Our methodology combines a strategy to aggressively prune the design space with a Cache-Aware Roofline Model (CARM)-based performance estimation to avoid costly simulations.

runtime

efficiency

edge

design space exploration

deep learning

design methodology

Författare

Alexandre Rodrigues

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa

Mateo Vázquez Maceiras

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa

Mohammad Ali Maleki

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa

Muhammad Waqar Azhar

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Datorteknik

Göteborgs universitet

Aleksandar Ilic

Universidade de Lisboa

Pedro Petersen Moura Trancoso

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Datorteknik

Göteborgs universitet

Leonel Sousa

ZeroPoint Technologies AB

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

664-666
9798400722943 (ISBN)

41st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2026
Thessaloniki, Greece,

The European Processor Initiative (EPI)

Europeiska kommissionen (EU) (EC/H2020/800928), 2018-12-01 -- 2021-11-30.

European, extendable, energy-efficient, energetic, embedded, extensible, Processor Ecosystem (eProcessor)

Europeiska kommissionen (EU) (EC/H2020/956702), 2021-01-01 -- 2024-06-30.

EPI SGA2

Europeiska kommissionen (EU) (101036168), 2022-01-01 -- 2024-12-31.

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)

Datavetenskap (datalogi)

DOI

10.1145/3748522.3779938

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2026-07-06