workshop Program

CBP-NG was held in conjunction with ISCA 2026 at the Raleigh Convention Center on Sunday June 28, 2026. The proceedings (including papers, slides, videos, and code) are available below for all accepted submissions. A youtube playlist is also available.

Workshop Program:

Session 1: 1:30pm-3:30 pm EDT

Opening Remarks. Aaron Lindsay (Ampere Computing), Pierre Michaud (INRIA, Ampere Computing) [slides (Lindsay), video (Lindsay), slides (Michaud), video (Michaud)]

An Energy-Efficient Ahead-Pipelined TAGE Branch Predictor for CBP-NG. Nhat Dang, Eric Rotenberg (North Carolina State University) [paper, slides, video, code]

Enhance Ahead-Pipelined N-branch GShare with Tagged Tables. Jun Fan (Unaffiliated) [paper, slides, teaser video, full video, code]

Distilled Branch Predictors. Simha Sethumadhavan (Columbia University/Chip Scan) [paper, slides, code]

RABT - Run-Ahead Block TAGE. Prakhar Gupta, Yuwei Sun, Rishav Sen, Reet Sinha, Swetha Karthikeyan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) [paper, slides, video, code]

Session 2: 4:00pm-5:30 pm EDT

MORSL: Minimal-Overhead Rank-Based Predictor with Summation-Free Correction and Lazy Access. Toru Koizumi (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Masanari Mizuno (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Soma Nishida (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Kanata Abe (The University of Tokyo) Tomoaki Tsumura (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Ryota Shioya (The University of Tokyo) [paper, slides, video, code]

Coding Agents as Design Searchers: An Autonomous TAGE Tuning Campaign for CBP-NG. Matt Pallan (University of Maryland) [paper, slides, teaser video, full video, code]

Offset-Free TAGE-SC: Conditional-Branch-Level Prediction for Wide Fetch Frontends. Yashwant Kumar Balivada (Texas A&M University), Sairam Viswanathan Susarla (Texas A&M University) [paper, slides, video, code]

Closing Remarks, Championship Results. Aaron Lindsay (Ampere Computing) [slides, results/awards video, closing remarks/feedback video]