AI System Hardware/Software Co-Design Request for Proposals

Facebook is especially interested in soliciting proposals for the wide range of AI hardware/algorithm co-design research areas, including but not limited to:

• Model compression (with particular focus on recommender systems and large embedding tables)
• Scalable communication-aware distributed training algorithms
• Processing in-memory hardware architectures for efficient and scalable machine learning
• Hardware efficiency-aware neural architecture search
• Graph-based recommender systems with implications on hardware (graph learning). Emphasis on algorithms like Deepwalk and convolutional approaches like GraphSAGE
• End-to-end hardware/software co-design automation for deep learning
• Optimizing mixed-precision linear algebra operations for AI systems

Funding: $50,000

Duration: no fixed limit 

Research authority due date: 21.2.19