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In this paper, we propose a 'full-stack' solution to designing high capacity and low latency on-chip cache hierarchies by starting at the circuit level of the hardware design stack. First, we propose a novel Gain Cell (GC) design using FDSOI. The GC has several desirable characteristics, including ~50% higher storage density and ~50% lower dynamic energy as compared to the traditional 6T SRAM, even after accounting for peripheral circuit overheads. We also exploit back-gate bias to increase retention time to 1.12 ms (~60x of eDRAM) which, combined with optimizations like staggered refresh, makes it an ideal candidate to architect all levels of on-chip caches. We show that compared to 6T SRAM, for a given area budget, GC based caches, on average, provide 29% and 36% increase in IPC for single- and multi-programmed workloads, respectively on contemporary workloads including SPEC CPU2017. We also observe dynamic energy savings of 42% and 34% for single- and multi-programmed workloads, respectively. We utilize the inherent properties of the proposed GC, including decoupled read and write bitlines to devise optimizations to save precharge energy and architect GC caches with better energy and performance characteristics. Finally, in a quest to utilize the best of all worlds, we combine GC with STT-RAM to create hybrid hierarchies. We show that a hybrid hierarchy with GC caches at L1 and L2, and an LLC split between GC and STT-RAM, with asymmetric write optimization enabled, is able to provide a 54% benefit in energy-delay product (EDP) as compared to an all-SRAM design, and 13% as compared to an all-GC cache hierarchy, averaged across multi-programmed workloads.

India loses 35% of the annual crop yield due to plant diseases. Early detection of plant diseases remains difficult due to the lack of lab infrastructure and expertise. In this paper, we explore the possibility of computer vision approaches for scalable and early plant disease detection. The lack of availability of sufficiently large-scale non-lab data set remains a major challenge for enabling vision based plant disease detection. Against this background, we present PlantDoc: a dataset for visual plant disease detection. Our dataset contains 2,598 data points in total across 13 plant species and up to 17 classes of diseases, involving approximately 300 human hours of effort in annotating internet scraped images. To show the efficacy of our dataset, we learn 3 models for the task of plant disease classification. Our results show that modelling using our dataset can increase the classification accuracy by up to 31%. We believe that our dataset can help reduce the entry barrier of computer vision techniques in plant disease detection., Comment: 5 Pages, 6 figures, 3 tables

Understanding the current research trends, problems, and their innovative solutions remains a bottleneck due to the ever-increasing volume of scientific articles. In this paper, we propose NLPExplorer, a completely automatic portal for indexing, searching, and visualizing Natural Language Processing (NLP) research volume. NLPExplorer presents interesting insights from papers, authors, venues, and topics. In contrast to previous topic modelling based approaches, we manually curate five course-grained non-exclusive topical categories namely Linguistic Target (Syntax, Discourse, etc.), Tasks (Tagging, Summarization, etc.), Approaches (unsupervised, supervised, etc.), Languages (English, Chinese,etc.) and Dataset types (news, clinical notes, etc.). Some of the novel features include a list of young popular authors, popular URLs, and datasets, a list of topically diverse papers and recent popular papers. Also, it provides temporal statistics such as yearwise popularity of topics, datasets, and seminal papers. To facilitate future research and system development, we make all the processed datasets accessible through API calls. The current system is available at http://lingo.iitgn.ac.in:5001/, Comment: 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2020