Reducing floating-point (FP) precision is used to trade the quality degradation of a numerical program's output for performance, but this optimization coincides with type casting, whose overhead is undisclosed until a mixed-precision code version is generated. This uncertainty enforces the decoupled implementation of mixed-precision code generation and autotuning in prior work. In this paper, we present a holistic approach called PrecTuner that consolidates the mixed-precision code generator and the autotuner by defining one parameter. This parameter is first initialized by some automatically sampled values and used to generate several code variants, with various loop transformations also taken into account. The generated code variants are next profiled to solve a performance model formulated using the aforementioned parameter, possibly under a pre-defined quality degradation budget. The best-performing value of the defined parameter is finally predicted without evaluating all code variants. Experimental results of the PolyBench benchmarks on CPU demonstrate that PrecTuner outperforms LuIs by 3.28× while achieving smaller errors, and we also validate its effectiveness in optimizing a real-life large-scale application. In addition, PrecTuner also obtains a mean speedup of 1.81× and 1.52×-1.73× over Pluto on single- and multi-core CPU, respectively, and 1.71× over PPCG on GPU.

The MPFR and CR-LIBM math libraries are frequently utilized due to their ability to generate correctly rounded results for all double-precision inputs. However, it is worth noting that MPFR has a slower average performance, while CR-LIBM achieves correct rounding over two iterations, rendering it less stable. In addition, CR-LIBM has a poor performance in handling the worst-case of correct rounding. This paper implements a correctly rounded elementary function library called SCR-LIBM in double-precision, which is stable and efficient. Our key idea is to divide subdomains and use the low-degree Taylor polynomial to approximate the elementary function in each subdomain. We simulate the high-precision representation based on the double–double data format, and use the error-free transformation and Double-double algorithm to control the error in the process of polynomial approximation and output compensation. Our approach ensures that the elementary function is correctly rounded, without the need for redundant iterations. The experimental evaluation shows that the average performance of elementary functions implemented in SCR-LIBM is 8.534 times faster than that of MPFR, and 2.492 times faster than that of CR-LIBM when dealing with the worst-case of correct rounding. What’s more, our SCR-LIBM is more stable than CR-LIBM.

Mixed-precision tuning is a valuable approach for striking a balance between the accuracy and performance of floating-point computations. However, selecting suitable configurations from numerous mixed-precision configurations can be challenging. The discrete and finite nature of floating-point numbers introduces unavoidable rounding errors that are difficult to predict. To address these challenges, we propose an accuracy gain evaluation function for expressions. This evaluation function quantifies the extent of accuracy improvement achieved by adjusting the precision of the operations within the expression. This is achieved through a thorough examination of the impact of each operation's condition number and implementation error on the final error. Based on this evaluation function, we present AMPT, a mixed-precision tuning method specifically for expressions. AMPT not only identifies the optimal mixed-precision configuration but also automatically generates the corresponding code. Experimental results demonstrate that AMPT accurately assesses the accuracy gains of different mixed-precision configurations, and the mixed-precision code generated by AMPT can achieve low-error computation of expressions with low performance overhead.

Existing search heuristics used to find input values that result in significant floating-point (FP) errors or small ranges that cover them are accompanied by severe constraints, complicating their implementation and restricting their general applicability. This paper introduces an error analysis tool called Eiffel to infer error-inducing input ranges instead of searching them. Given an FP expression with its domain$\mathcal{D}$, Eiffel first constructs an error data set by sampling values across a smaller domain$\mathcal{R}$and assembles these data into clusters. If more than two clusters are formed, Eiffel derives polynomial curves that best fit the bound coordinates of the error-inducing ranges in$\mathcal{R}$, extrapolating them to infer all target ranges of$\mathcal{D}$and reporting the maximal error. Otherwise, Eiffel simply returns the largest error across$\mathcal{R}$. Experimental results show that Eiffel exhibits a broader applicability than Atomu and$\mathbf{S}^{3}$FP by successfully detecting the errors of all 70 considered benchmarks while the two baselines only report errors for part of them. By taking as input the inferred ranges of Eiffel, Herbie obtains an average accuracy improvement of 3.35 bits and up to 53.3 bits.