SHF: Small: Harnessing human intelligence for mapping on custom reconfigurable architectures

定制领域特定的体系结构对于实现一套应用程序的节能灵活设计大有希望。然而，对于实际部署，非常需要开发智能算法来将感兴趣的应用程序映射到这些体系结构上。这项研究的主要目的是通过利用人类的直觉和能力来发现新的映射算法，即使在复杂的问题中也能识别模式和机会。在游戏环境中，参与者被呈现出一系列更困难的映射问题，并分析参与者移动的庞大数据集，以识别成功游戏参与者使用的常见模式。人类在基于视觉直觉和经验解决问题时所采取的战略行动所获得的见解，可用于发现传统算法无法想象的新映射方法。对于广泛的范围和影响，本研究特别关注多种架构设计，高度受限（因此非常困难）的映射问题，以及通过众包吸引广泛的贡献者社区。快速有效的映射技术，以及根据需要开发新技术的方法，有可能激发架构创新，并导致更快、更便宜和更智能的设备生产。这项研究的结果可以推动下一代便携式/可穿戴设备的发展，这些设备对健康、安全和安保、个人多媒体和航空航天至关重要。

Custom domain-specific architectures have great promise for achieving energy-efficient flexible designs for a suite of applications. For practical deployment, however, there is a great need to develop smart algorithms for mapping applications of interest onto these architectures. The main thrust of this research is to discover novel mapping algorithms by making use of human intuition and ability to recognize patterns and opportunities even in complex problems. Participants are presented with successively more difficult mapping problems in a game environment, and the vast dataset of participants' moves is analyzed to recognize common patterns used by successful game participants. The insights gained from strategic moves humans make while solving problems based on their visual intuition and experience can be used to discover new mapping approaches that are beyond what can be conceived with traditional algorithms. For broad scope and impact, this research places particular attention on multiple architectural designs, highly constrained (and thus very difficult) mapping problems, and engaging a broad community of contributors through crowdsourcing.Fast and effective mapping techniques, and a methodology for developing new such techniques as needed has the potential to inspire architectural innovation and result in production of devices that are faster, cheaper, and smarter. Results from this research can advance next generation portable/wearable devices critical to health, safety and security, personal multimedia, and aerospace.