Benjamin Negrevergne (Storm)

Benjamin Negrevergne, Assistant Professor at Univ. PSL Paris Dauphine, will give a seminar at Inria next Tuesday. Informations on the seminar are available below.

Speaker

Benjamin Negrevergne

When

Tuesday, June 17, 10:00 am

Where

room Alan Turing 2

Title

Code language models for high performance computing

Abstract

I will begin this presentation by introducing my previous work on two important failure modes of existing machine learning models: adversarial examples and poor distributional coverage.

In a second part, I will focus on my current research project: using code models to improve program execution. Modern code models, trained to mimic human coders, have recently become fairly good at generating static code. However they remain mostly unaware of issues that may arise at runtime.

Equipped with a better understanding of program execution and computing architectures, these models could be used to effectively drive the execution of computationally intensive programs on complex heterogeneous architectures, while limiting classical execution issues. To understand the potential of this approach, I will explain how current code models are trained, then discuss the limitations of this training procedure and suggest improvements. Finally I will discuss how code models could benefit high performance computing in the long run.