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Announcing the 2022 LLVM Developers' Meeting Program

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We had an amazing group of talk proposals submitted for the 2022 LLVM Developers’ Meeting. Thank you to all that submitted a talk proposal this year!

Here is the 2022 LLVM Developers’ Meeting program:

Keynotes:

  • Paths towards unifying LLVM and MLIR - Nicolai Hähnle
  • Implementing Language Support for ABI-Stable Software Evolution in Swift and LLVM - Doug Gregor

Technical Talks:

  • Implementing the Unimplementable: Bringing HLSL’s Standard Library into Clang - Chris Bieneman
  • Heterogeneous Debug Metadata in LLVM - Scott Linder
  • Clang, Clang: Who’s there? WebAssembly! - Paulo Matos
  • MC/DC: Enabling easy-to-use safety-critical code coverage analysis with LLVM - Alan Phipps
  • What does it take to run LLVM Buildbots? - David Spickett
  • llvm-gitbom: Building Software Artifact Dependency Graphs for Vulnerability Detection - Bharathi Seshadri, Yongkui Han
  • CuPBoP: CUDA for Parallelized and Broad-range Processors - Ruobing Han
  • Uniformity Analysis for Irreducible CFGs - Sameer Sahasrabuddhe
  • Using Content-Addressable Storage in Clang for Caching Computations and Eliminating Redundancy - Steven Wu, Ben Langmuir
  • Direct GPU Compilation and Execution for Host Applications with OpenMP Parallelism - Shilei Tian, Joseph Huber
  • Linker Code Size Optimization for Native Mobile Applications - Gai Liu
  • Minotaur: A SIMD Oriented Superoptimizer - Zhengyang Liu
  • ML-based Hardware Cost Model for High-Level MLIR - Dibyendu Das, Sandya Mannarswamy
  • VAST: MLIR for program analysis of C/C++ - Henrich Lauko
  • MLIR for Functional Programming - Siddharth Bhat
  • SPIR-V Backend in LLVM: Upstream and Beyond - Michal Paszkowski, Alex Bezzubikov
  • IRDL: A Dialect for dialects - Mathieu Fehr, Théo Degioanni
  • Automated translation validation for an LLVM backend - Nader Boushehrinejad Moradi
  • llvm-dialects: bringing dialects to the LLVM IR substrate - Nicolai Hähnle
  • YARPGen: A Compiler Fuzzer for Loop Optimizations and Data-Parallel Languages - Vsevolod Livinskii
  • RISC-V Sign Extension Optimizations - Craig Topper
  • Execution Domain Transition: Binary and LLVM IR can run in conjunction - Jaeyong Ko

Tutorials:

  • Using LLVM’s libc - Sivachandra Reddy, Michael Jones, Tue Ly
  • How to implement a new JITLink backend in a week - Sunho Kim

Panels (some speakers still to be announced):

  • Machine Learning Guided Optimizations (MLGO) in LLVM
  • Static Analysis in Clang - Gabor Horvath, Artem Dergachev, Bruno Cardoso Lopes
  • High-level IRs for a C/C++ Optimizing Compiler - Bruno Lopes, Ivan Baev, Johannes Doerfert, Mehdi Amini
  • Panel discussion on “Best practices with toolchain release and maintenance” - Aditya Kumar

Student Technical Talks:

  • Merging Similar Control-Flow Regions in LLVM for Performance and Code Size Benefits - Charitha Saumya
  • Alive-mutate: a fuzzer that cooperates with Alive2 to find LLVM bugs - Yuyou Fan
  • Enabling Transformers to Understand Low-Level Programs - Zifan Guo, William S. Moses
  • LAGrad: Leveraging the MLIR Ecosystem for Efficient Differentiable Programming - Mai Jacob Peng
  • Scalable Loop Analysis - Vir Narula

Quick Talks:

  • LLVM Education Initiativei - Chris Bieneman, Kit Barton, Mike Edwards
  • Enabling AArch64 Instrumentation Support In BOLT - Elvina Yakubova
  • Approximating at Scale: How strtofloat in LLVM’s libc is faster - Michael Jones
  • MIR support in llvm-reduce - Matthew Arsenault
  • Interactive Crashlogs in LLDB - Med Ismail Bennani
  • clang-extract-api: Clang support for API information generation in JSON - Zixu Wang
  • Using modern CPU instructions to improve LLVM’s libc math library. - Tue Ly
  • Challenges Of Enabling Golang Binaries Optimization By BOLT - Vasily Leonenko, Vladislav Khmelevskyi
  • Inlining for Size - Kyungwoo Lee, Ellis Hoag, Nathan Lanza
  • Automatic indirect memory access instructions generation for pointer chasing patterns - Przemysław Ossowski
  • Link-Time Attributes for LTO: Incorporating linker knowledge into the LTO recompile - Todd Snider
  • Expecting the expected: Honoring user branch hints for code placement optimizations - Stan Kvasov, Vince Del Vecchio
  • CUDA-OMP — Or, Breaking the Vendor Lock - Johannes Doerfert, Joseph Huber
  • Thoughts on GPUs as First-Class Citizens - Johannes Doerfert, Shilei Tian, Joseph Huber
  • Building an End-to-End Toolchain for Fully Homomorphic Encryption with MLIR - Alexander Viand

Lightning Talks:

  • LLVM Office Hours: addressing LLVM engagement and contribution barriers - Kristof Beyls
  • Improved Fuzzing of Backend Code Generation in LLVM - Yuyang Rong
  • Interactive Programming for LLVM TableGen - David Spickett
  • Efficient JIT-based remote execution - Anubhab Ghosh
  • FFTc: An MLIR Dialect for Developing HPC Fast Fourier Transform Libraries - Yifei He
  • Recovering from Errors in Clang-Repl and Code Undo - Purva Chaudhari, Jun Zhang
  • 10 commits towards GlobalISel for PowerPC - Kai Nacke, Amy Kwan
  • Nonstandard reductions with SPRAY - Jan Hueckelheim, Johannes Doerfert
  • Type Resugaring in Clang for Better Diagnostics and Beyond - Matheus Izvekov
  • Swift Bindings for LLVM - Egor Zhdan
  • Min-sized Function Coverage with IRPGO - Ellis Hoag, Kyungwoo Lee
  • High-Performance GPU-to-CPU Transpilation and Optimization via High-Level Parallel Constructs in Polygeist/MLIR - William S. Moses, Ivan R. Ivanov
  • Tools for checking and writing non-trivial DWARF programs - Chris Jackson
  • Analysis of RISC-V Vector Performance Using MCA Tools - Michael Maitland
  • Optimizing Clang with BOLT using CMake - Amir Ayupov
  • Exploring OpenMP target offloading for the GraphCore architecture - Jose M Monsalve Daiz

Posters (more posters to be announced at a later date):

  • Removal of Undef: Move Uninitialized Memory to Poison - John McIver
  • Optimizing Julia’s ORC JIT - Prem Chintalapudi
  • An LLVM-Based Compiler for Quantum-Classical Applications - Xin-Chuan Wu
  • Specializing Code to New Architectures via Dynamic Adaptive Recompilation - Quinn Pham, Dhanrajbir Singh Hira
  • LLFPTrax: Tracking ill-conditioned floating-point inputs using relative error amplification in LLVM - Tanmay Tirpankar
  • LLVM continuous upstream integration and testing - Jay Azurin, Keerthana Subramani
  • Automatic indirect memory access instructions generation for pointer chasing patterns - Adam Perdeusz

Thank you to the volunters on the Program Committee for all of their hard work and time spent reviewing proposals. A special thanks also goes out to this year’s chair - Anton Korobeynikov. Here is the complete 2022 LLVM Developers’ Meeting Program Committee:

  • Kristof Beyls
  • Andrey Bokhanko
  • Chelsea Cassanova
  • Johannes Doerfert
  • Florian Hahn
  • Petr Hosek
  • Min-Yih Hsu
  • Anton Korobeynikov (Chair)
  • Aditya Kumar
  • Hem Neema
  • Diego Novillo
  • Fangrui Song
  • J. Ryan Stinnett
  • Caroline Tice
  • Mircea Trofin

Registration closes on October 31st, so register today for the 2022 LLVM Developers’ Meeting.