Aart Tells Us About Machine Learning Compilers (MLIR)

Age of Information - A podcast by Vasanth Thiruvadi & Faraz Abidi

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Dr. Aart Bik is a Staff Software Engineer at Google where he works on MLIR, a compiler architecture project that uses extensible compiler infrastructure alongside LLVM to build better compilers for Machine Learning. Timestamps: 1:10 - An explanation of MLIR and LLVM compilers 2:30 - Compilers are more than just translating high level code to assembly 6:00 - Progressive Lowering in LLVM and MLIR 7:40 - MLIR is largely agnostic of hardware 9:00 - TPUs 9:40 - AlphaZero, the ML and TPU powered c...