arXiv:2505.22086cs.ARcs.AI2025-05被引 11

用大模型智能导航硬件设计空间,提速降本找最优解

iDSE: Navigating Design Space Exploration in High-Level Synthesis Using LLMs

  • 用大模型感知设计质量,智能剪枝并生成初始设计方案
  • 相比传统方法快5.1到16.6倍,仅用4.6%的探索量逼近最优解
  • 适合追求高效多目标优化的芯片架构设计师

高层次综合(HLS)通过行为描述抽象寄存器传输级,使设计者可通过优化指令定制微架构,但指令配置组合爆炸导致设计空间难以处理。传统设计空间探索(DSE)方法虽采用启发式或构建预测模型加速获取帕累托最优解,仍面临高昂探索成本和次优结果问题。本文提出iDSE,首个基于大模型的DSE框架,利用HLS设计质量感知能力有效导航设计空间。iDSE智能剪枝并引导大模型生成代表性初始采样设计,加速向帕累托前沿收敛。通过挖掘大模型内在的收敛与发散思维模式,实现设计质量与多样性的多路径优化。大量实验表明,iDSE在接近参考帕累托前沿方面优于基于启发式的DSE方法5.1×~16.6×,且仅需NSGA-II 4.6%的探索设计量即可达到相当效果。本工作展示了大模型在可扩展、高效的HLS优化中的变革潜力,为多目标优化提供了新思路。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) serves as an agile hardware development tool that streamlines the circuit design by abstracting the register transfer level into behavioral descriptions, while allowing designers to customize the generated microarchitectures through optimization directives. However, the combinatorial explosion of possible directive configurations yields an intractable design space. Traditional design space exploration (DSE) methods, despite adopting heuristics or constructing predictive models to accelerate Pareto-optimal design acquisition, still suffer from prohibitive exploration costs and suboptimal results. Addressing these concerns, we introduce iDSE, the first LLM-aided DSE framework that leverages HLS design quality perception to effectively navigate the design space. iDSE intelligently pruns the design space to guide LLMs in calibrating representative initial sampling designs, expediting convergence toward the Pareto front. By exploiting the convergent and divergent thinking patterns inherent in LLMs for hardware optimization, iDSE achieves multi-path refinement of the design quality and diversity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that iDSE outperforms heuristic-based DSE methods by 5.1$\times$$\sim$16.6$\times$ in proximity to the reference Pareto front, matching NSGA-II with only 4.6% of the explored designs. Our work demonstrates the transformative potential of LLMs in scalable and efficient HLS design optimization, offering new insights into multiobjective optimization challenges.

硬件优化大模型应用设计空间探索

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