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Francesca Iacopi

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures · 33% Memory systems · 33% Emerging computing paradigms · 33%
Theoretical computer science
1 paper
Mathematical optimization · 100%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Memory systems
in-memory computing
0.912025
TAXI: Traveling Salesman Problem Accelerator with X-bar-based Ising Macros Powered by SOT-MRAMs and Hierarchical Clustering · DAC 2025
Emerging computing paradigms › unconventional computing
ising machine
0.912025
TAXI: Traveling Salesman Problem Accelerator with X-bar-based Ising Macros Powered by SOT-MRAMs and Hierarchical Clustering · DAC 2025
Mathematical optimization
combinatorial optimization
0.312025
TAXI: Traveling Salesman Problem Accelerator with X-bar-based Ising Macros Powered by SOT-MRAMs and Hierarchical Clustering · DAC 2025
Mathematical optimization › combinatorial optimization › vehicle routing
traveling salesman problem
0.312025
TAXI: Traveling Salesman Problem Accelerator with X-bar-based Ising Macros Powered by SOT-MRAMs and Hierarchical Clustering · DAC 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

spin-orbit-torque MRAM · 1.7simulated annealing · 1.7hierarchical clustering · 1.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 TAXI: Traveling Salesman Problem Accelerator with X-bar-based Ising Macros Powered by SOT-MRAMs and Hierarchical Clustering
abstract
Ising solvers with hierarchical clustering have shown promise for large-scale Traveling Salesman Problems (TSPs), in terms of latency and energy. However, most of these methods still face unacceptable quality degradation as the problem size increases beyond a certain extent. Additionally, their hardwareagnostic adoptions limit their ability to fully exploit available hardware resources. In this work, we introduce TAXI – an inmemory computing-based TSP accelerator with crossbar(Xbar)-based Ising macros. Each macro independently solves a TSP subproblem, obtained by hierarchical clustering, without the need for any off-macro data movement, leading to massive parallelism. Within the macro, Spin-Orbit-Torque (SOT) devices serve as compact energy-efficient random number generators enabling rapid “natural annealing”. By leveraging hardware-algorithm co-design, TAXI offers improvements in solution quality, speed, and energy-efficiency on TSPs up to $\mathbf{8 5, 9 0 0}$ cities (the largest TSPLIB instance). TAXI produces solutions that are only $22 \%$ and $20 \%$ longer than the Concorde solver’s exact solution on $\mathbf{3 3, 8 1 0}$ and $\mathbf{8 5, 9 0 0}$ city TSPs, respectively. TAXI outperforms a current state-of-the-art clustering-based Ising solver, being $8 \times$ faster on average across 20 benchmark problems from TSPLib.
Sangmin Yoo, Amod Holla, Sourav Sanyal, Dong Eun Kim, Francesca Iacopi, Dwaipayan Biswas, James Myers, Kaushik Roy 0001
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