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Papers, posts, talks, datasets, and workshop writeups that orient the field

This is the hub's curated starting point for Architecture 2.0 references. It is not meant to replace a bibliography; it points newcomers and submitters toward the papers, essays, talks, and artifacts that explain the motivation, evidence standards, and community infrastructure around AI-assisted computer architecture.

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Paper · DAC 2023 / IEEE Xplore · 2023

Architecture 2.0: Challenges and Opportunities

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Concise position paper framing the opportunities and community infrastructure needed for machine-learning-driven computer architecture.

Authors
Vijay Janapa Reddi; Amir Yazdanbakhsh
DOI
10.1109/DAC56929.2023.10247808
Architecture 2.0 Papers Foundations

Article · IEEE Computer · 2025

Architecture 2.0: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Agents for Modern Computer System Design

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Foundations article arguing why AI agents and compound AI systems matter for modern computer system design.

Authors
Vijay Janapa Reddi; Amir Yazdanbakhsh
DOI
10.1109/MC.2024.3521641
Architecture 2.0 Papers Agentic AI

Blog post · SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today · June 14, 2023

Architecture 2.0: Why Computer Architects Need a Data-Centric AI Gymnasium

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Community-facing argument for datasets, benchmarks, leaderboards, competitions, and open infrastructure for Architecture 2.0.

Authors
Vijay Janapa Reddi; Amir Yazdanbakhsh
Architecture 2.0 Blog posts Benchmarks and Datasets

Blog post · SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today · December 20, 2023

Architecture 2.0 Workshop: How Machine Learning Will Redefine Computer Architecture and Systems

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Writeup from the online community workshop, summarizing workstreams around datasets, algorithms, tools, best practices, workforce, and industry.

Authors
Siddharth Garg et al.
Architecture 2.0 Blog posts Workshops

Blog post · SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today · February 4, 2025

A Computer Architect's Guide to Designing Abstractions for Intelligent Systems

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A systems-oriented essay on abstractions for intelligent and compound AI systems.

Authors
Amir Yazdanbakhsh
Blog posts Agentic AI Computer Architecture

Blog post · SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today · May 19, 2026

Architecture & Systems are Changing: The Architect's Role in the Era of Agentic Co-Design

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Recent SIGARCH essay connecting agentic co-design to hardware-software contracts, memory systems, and datacenter architecture.

Authors
Dimitrios Skarlatos
Blog posts Agentic AI Computer Architecture

Paper · ISCA 2023 · 2023

ArchGym: An Open-Source Gymnasium for Machine Learning Assisted Architecture Design

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Open-source framework that connects search algorithms to architecture simulators for fairer, repeatable ML-assisted design-space exploration.

Authors
Srivatsan Krishnan et al.
DOI
10.1145/3579371.3589049
Papers Tools and Infrastructure Benchmarks and Datasets

Paper · IEEE Computer Architecture Letters · 2025

QuArch: A Question-Answering Dataset for AI Agents in Computer Architecture

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Question-answering dataset for evaluating and improving language-model reasoning about computer architecture.

Authors
Shvetank Prakash et al.
DOI
10.1109/LCA.2025.3541961
Papers Benchmarks and Datasets Agentic AI

Podcast · Computer Architecture Podcast · September 3, 2024

Computer Architecture Podcast: Architecture 2.0 and AI for Computer Systems Design

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Podcast conversation introducing Architecture 2.0 and AI for computer systems design to a broader architecture audience.

Authors
Suvinay Subramanian; Lisa Hsu; Vijay Janapa Reddi
Architecture 2.0 Talks Computer Architecture

Paper · ISSCC 2020 keynote companion · 2020

The Deep Learning Revolution and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design

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Jeff Dean's broad framing of how deep learning changes hardware demand and how machine learning can begin to influence circuit and chip design.

Authors
Jeffrey Dean
DOI
10.1109/ISSCC19947.2020.9063049
Papers Computer Architecture Foundations

Talk · DAC 2021 keynote · December 6, 2021

The Potential of Machine Learning for Hardware Design

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A keynote on using machine learning across hardware-design tasks, useful background for the Architecture 2.0 design-loop agenda.

Authors
Jeffrey Dean
Talks Computer Architecture Tools and Infrastructure

Talk · NSF AI for EDA Workshop at NeurIPS 2024 · December 2024

A Sketch of How to Move Towards an End-to-End AI-Automated Chip Design Process

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A forward-looking talk on automating chip design across architecture choices, logic design, verification, and floorplanning.

Authors
Jeffrey Dean
Talks Agentic AI Tools and Infrastructure

Paper · Nature · 2021

A graph placement methodology for fast chip design

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Influential reinforcement-learning approach to chip macro placement and a concrete example of AI entering a real hardware-design loop.

Authors
Azalia Mirhoseini; Anna Goldie; Mustafa Yazgan; Joe Wenjie Jiang; et al.
DOI
10.1038/s41586-021-03544-w
Papers Agentic AI Tools and Infrastructure

Blog post · Google DeepMind · September 2024

How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design

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Accessible update on AlphaChip's chip-design impact, model release, and use in Google accelerator design.

Authors
Anna Goldie; Azalia Mirhoseini
Blog posts Agentic AI Tools and Infrastructure

Paper · arXiv · 2021

A Survey of Machine Learning for Computer Architecture and Systems

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A broad survey of machine learning as a predictive-modeling and design methodology for computer architecture and systems.

Authors
Nan Wu; Yuan Xie
Papers Computer Architecture Foundations

Blog post · CRA Industry · April 27, 2026

How AI Will Reshape Computer Systems by 2035

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Community visioning notes on AI, specialization, hardware-design automation, and agent-managed software and systems development.

Blog posts Agentic AI Computer Architecture

Report · NSF AI for EDA Workshop / arXiv · 2026

Report for NSF Workshop on AI for Electronic Design Automation

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Workshop report summarizing AI-for-EDA needs around collaboration, foundation methods, data infrastructure, compute, verification, and workforce development.

Authors
Deming Chen; Vijay Ganesh; Weikai Li; Yingyan Lin; Yong Liu; Subhasish Mitra; David Z. Pan; Ruchir Puri; Jason Cong; Yizhou Sun
Papers Tools and Infrastructure Benchmarks and Datasets
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