Bubble

Operating system

Programmer

Computer science

Maximum bubble pressure method

Psychology

Mathematics

Politics

Interface (matter)

Political science

Graphical user interface

Psychotherapist

Generality

Domain (mathematical analysis)

Mathematical analysis

Representation (politics)

Software engineering

Programming language

Human–computer interaction

Space (punctuation)

Extensibility

Machine learning

Key (lock)

Program autotuning has been shown to achieve better or more portable performance in a number of domains. However, autotuners themselves are rarely portable between projects, for a number of reasons: using a domain-informed search space representation is critical to achieving good results; search spaces can be intractably large and require advanced machine learning techniques; and the landscape of search spaces can vary greatly between different problems, sometimes requiring domain specific search techniques to explore efficiently. This paper introduces OpenTuner, a new open source framework for building domain-specific multi-objective program autotuners. OpenTuner supports fully-customizable configuration representations, an extensible technique representation to allow for domain-specific techniques, and an easy to use interface for communicating with the program to be autotuned. A key capability inside OpenTuner is the use of ensembles of disparate search techniques simultaneously; techniques that perform well will dynamically be allocated a larger proportion of tests. We demonstrate the efficacy and generality of OpenTuner by building autotuners for 7 distinct projects and 16 total benchmarks, showing speedups over prior techniques of these projects of up to 2.8x with little programmer effort.

OpenTuner