Workshop on ML for Systems at NeurIPS 2024, December 15, Vancouver Convention Center
Workshop on ML for Systems at NeurIPS '24, Dec 15

Workshop Overview

Machine Learning for Systems is an interdisciplinary workshop that brings together researchers in computer systems and machine learning, specifically focusing on the novel application of machine learning techniques towards computer systems problems.

Call for Papers

We invite submission of up to 4-page extended abstracts in the broad area of using machine learning in the design and management of computer systems . We are especially interested in submissions that move beyond using machine learning to replace numerical heuristics.

This year, we additionally look for

  • Using LLMs for systems challenges, such as program synthesis for hardware and other specialized domains.
  • Applying ML to systems issues that emerge from large-scale training and serving, such as compiler partitioning schemes for training LLMs across thousands of GPU or TPU devices.
  • Applying ML for compute sustainability, including power/energy/carbon optimization. Examples include energy-aware job scheduling, dynamic power management based on workload and carbon predictions, and ML-driven carbon footprint assessment for cloud datacenters.

Accepted papers will be optionally linked on the workshop website, but there will be no formal proceedings. Authors may therefore publish their work in other journals or conferences. The workshop will include invited talks from industry and academia, as well as oral and poster presentations by workshop participants.

You can find accepted papers to the previous iteration of ML for Systems from NeurIPS 2023, NeurIPS 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and ISCA 2019.

Accepted papers will be made available on the workshop website, but there will be no formal proceedings. Authors may therefore publish their work in other journals or conferences. The workshop will include invited talks from industry and academia as well as oral and poster presentations by workshop participants.

Camera-Ready Instructions

For accepted papers, please update the camera-ready manuscript on OpenReview by Oct 28th AoE.

Please see instructions below:

  • Please address the AC comments (if any) and use the reviews to improve the paper.
  • The camera-ready template is the same as the one used for submission, which is same as NeurIPS papers but using `Final` package. We have made some minor changes to the format. Please update with the template (.zip)
  • attached.
  • There is a hard page limit of 4 pages (excluding references and Appendix).
  • Appendix and references do not have a limit.

Areas of interest:

  • Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning research with applications to:
    • Systems Software
    • Runtime Systems
    • Distributed Systems
    • Security
    • Compilers, data structures, and code optimization
    • Databases
    • Computer architecture, microarchitecture, and accelerators
    • Circuit design and layout
    • Interconnects and Networking
    • Storage
    • Datacenters
    • Programming Languages
  • Representation learning for hardware and software
  • Optimization of computer systems and software
  • Systems modeling and simulation
  • Implementations of ML for Systems and challenges
  • High quality datasets for ML for Systems problems
  • Emerging applications
    • Using LLMs for systems
    • Using ML for challenges in large-scale machine learning systems for ML training and serving
    • Using ML to solve power and carbon challenges of large scale systems

Submission Instructions

We welcome submissions of up to 4 pages, not including references or Appendices. This year, this is a strict limit. Authors are welcome to put additional material in the optional Appendix section, but reviewers are not required to read the Appendix.

All submissions must be in PDF format and should follow the NeurIPS 2024 format.

Important Dates

  • Submission Deadline: September 18th September 22nd by midnight Anywhere in the World.
  • Acceptance Notifications: October 7th, 2024
  • Workshop: December 15, 2024

Contact Us

Contact us at mlforsystems@googlegroups.com.