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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2024.1

WORTEX: Worst-Case Execution Time and Energy Estimation in Low-Power Microprocessors Using Explainable ML

Authors: Hugo Reymond, Abderaouf Nassim Amalou, and Isabelle Puaut

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 121, 22nd International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2024)

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Real-time and energy-constrained systems heavily rely on estimates of the worst-case execution time (WCET) and worst-case energy consumption (WCEC) of code snippets to ensure trustworthy operation. Designing architecture-specific analytical models for time and energy is often challenging and time-consuming. In situations where analytical models are unavailable or incomplete, machine learning (ML) techniques emerge as a promising solution to build WCEC/WCET models. This paper introduces WORTEX, a toolkit for WCEC/WCET estimation of basic blocks based on ML techniques. To ensure the real-world applicability of its models, WORTEX extracts large datasets of basic blocks from real programs and precisely measures their energy consumption/execution time on the physical target platform. The dataset is used to train various WCEC/WCET models using different ML techniques. Experimental results on simple and time-predictable hardware show that even the most basic ML techniques provide accurate results, that never underestimate actual values. We also discuss the use of explainability techniques to gain trustworthiness for the models.

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Hugo Reymond, Abderaouf Nassim Amalou, and Isabelle Puaut. WORTEX: Worst-Case Execution Time and Energy Estimation in Low-Power Microprocessors Using Explainable ML. In 22nd International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2024). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 121, pp. 1:1-1:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{reymond_et_al:OASIcs.WCET.2024.1,
  author =	{Reymond, Hugo and Amalou, Abderaouf Nassim and Puaut, Isabelle},
  title =	{{WORTEX: Worst-Case Execution Time and Energy Estimation in Low-Power Microprocessors Using Explainable ML}},
  booktitle =	{22nd International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2024)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:14},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-346-1},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{121},
  editor =	{Carle, Thomas},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2024.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-204691},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2024.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET), Worst-Case Energy Consumption (WCEC), Machine Learning, Explainable ML models}
}

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