CogArch 2024: 8th Workshop on Cognitive Architectures

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques have become the de facto solution to drive human progress and more specifically, automation. In the last few years, the world’s economy has been gravitating towards the AI/ML domain (from industrial and scientific perspectives) and the expectation of growth has only been increasing with the rapid rate of innovation and commercial deployments. Over the past 7 editions, the CogArch workshop has brought together experts and knowledge on the most novel design ideas for cognitive systems. This workshop capitalizes on the synergy between industrial and academic efforts in order to provide a better understanding of cognitive systems and key concepts of their design. In particular, while previous editions of the workshop have attempted to address co-designed hardware-software architectures that enable the latest advancements in machine learning, this edition focuses on applying state-of-the-art machine learning models towards realizing novel processor architectures and design. Architecting, designing, verifying and manufacturing commercial-grade processor requires hundreds of highly skilled designers, complex toolflows and a time-to-market of several months to years, and leveraging AI techniques at various stages in the design cycle can serve to significantly ease these constraints. The CogArch workshop has already had seven successful editions, bringing together experts and knowledge on the most novel design ideas for cognitive systems. This workshop capitalizes on the synergy between industrial and academic efforts in order to provide a better understanding of cognitive systems and key enablers of their design.