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An Algebraic Approach to Vectorial Programs

Authors Charles Paperman , Sylvain Salvati, Claire Soyez-Martin

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Charles Paperman
  • Univ. Lille, CNRS, INRIA, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 CRIStAL, F-59000 Lille, France
Sylvain Salvati
  • Univ. Lille, CNRS, INRIA, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 CRIStAL, F-59000 Lille, France
Claire Soyez-Martin
  • Univ. Lille, CNRS, INRIA, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 CRIStAL, F-59000 Lille, France

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the anonymous referees for helping to improve the paper a lot, Howard Straubing for proof-reading the main algebraic proofs of this paper, Michaël Hauspie for his advice, his support and his knowledge about SIMD and compilation and Corentin Barloy to have helped proof-read the paper.

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Charles Paperman, Sylvain Salvati, and Claire Soyez-Martin. An Algebraic Approach to Vectorial Programs. In 40th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 254, pp. 51:1-51:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2023.51

Abstract

Vectorial programming, the combination of SIMD instructions with usual processor instructions, is known to speed-up many standard algorithms. Simple regular languages have benefited from this technology. This paper is a first step towards pushing these benefits further. We take advantage of the inner algebraic structure of regular languages and produce high level representations of efficient vectorial programs that recognize certain classes of regular languages. As a technical ingredient, we establish equivalences between classes of vectorial circuits and logical formalisms, namely unary temporal logic and first order logic. The main result is the construction of compilation procedures that turns syntactic semigroups into vectorial circuits. The circuits we obtain are small in that they improve known upper-bounds on representations of automata within the logical formalisms. The gain is mostly due to a careful sharing of sub-formulas based on algebraic tools.

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  • Theory of computation → Formal languages and automata theory
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  • Automata theory
  • Semigroups
  • Vectorisation

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