Hexagon-MLIR: An AI Compilation Stack For Qualcomm's Neural Processing Units (NPUs).

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Mohammed Javed Absar Muthu Baskaran Abhikrant Sharma Abhilash Bhandari Ankit Aggarwal Arun Rangasamy Dibyendu Das 0005 Fateme Hosseini Franck Slama Iulian Brumar Jyotsna Verma Krishnaprasad Bindumadhavan Mitesh Kothari Mohit Gupta Ravishankar Kolachana Richard Lethin Samarth Narang Sanjay Motilal Ladwa Shalini Jain 0002 Snigdha Suresh Dalvi Tasmia Rahman Venkat Rasagna Reddy Komatireddy Vivek Vasudevbhai Pandya Xiyue Shi Zachary Zipper Hexagon-MLIR: An AI Compilation Stack For Qualcomm's Neural Processing Units (NPUs). 2026 February abs/2602.19762 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.19762 db/journals/corr/corr2602.html#abs-2602-19762 streams/journals/corr

Javed Absar Samarth Narang Muthu Baskaran Analyzing Latency Hiding and Parallelism in an MLIR-based AI Kernel Compiler. 2026 February abs/2602.20204 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.20204 db/journals/corr/corr2602.html#abs-2602-20204 streams/journals/corr

Javed Absar Samarth Narang Muthu Baskaran Tensor Evolution: A Framework for Fast Evaluation of Tensor Computations using Recurrences. 2025 February abs/2502.03402 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.03402 db/journals/corr/corr2502.html#abs-2502-03402 streams/journals/corr

Riyadh Baghdadi Ulysse Beaugnon Albert Cohen 0001 Tobias Grosser Michael Kruse Chandan Reddy 0001 Sven Verdoolaege Adam Betts Alastair F. Donaldson Jeroen Ketema Javed Absar Sven van Haastregt Alexey Kravets Anton Lokhmotov Robert David Elnar Hajiyev PENCIL: A Platform-Neutral Compute Intermediate Language for Accelerator Programming. 138-149 2015 PACT https://doi.org/10.1109/PACT.2015.17 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/PACT.2015.17 conf/IEEEpact/2015 db/conf/IEEEpact/pact2015.html#BaghdadiB0GKRVB15 Ulysse Beaugnon Alexey Kravets Sven van Haastregt Riyadh Baghdadi David Tweed Javed Absar Anton Lokhmotov VOBLA: a vehicle for optimized basic linear algebra. 115-124 2014 LCTES https://doi.org/10.1145/2597809.2597818 https://doi.org/10.1145/2666357.2597818 conf/lctrts/2014 db/conf/lctrts/lctes2014.html#BeaugnonKHBTAL14 Javed Absar Deepak Shekhar Eliminating partially-redundant array-bounds check in the Android Dalvik JIT compiler. 121-128 2011 PPPJ https://doi.org/10.1145/2093157.2093175 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130862420 conf/pppj/2011 db/conf/pppj/pppj2011.html#AbsarS11

Javed Absar Praveen Raghavan Andy Lambrechts Min Li 0001 Murali Jayapala Francky Catthoor Locality optimization in a compiler for wireless applications. 53-72 2009 13 Des. Autom. Embed. Syst. 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10617-008-9019-x https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q123228118 db/journals/dafes/dafes13.html#AbsarRLLJC09

Praveen Raghavan Murali Jayapala Andy Lambrechts Javed Absar Francky Catthoor Playing the trade-off game: Architecture exploration using Coffeee. 2009 14 ACM Trans. Design Autom. Electr. Syst. 3 https://doi.org/10.1145/1529255.1529258 db/journals/todaes/todaes14.html#RaghavanJLAC09 36:1-36:37

Praveen Raghavan Andy Lambrechts Javed Absar Murali Jayapala Francky Catthoor Diederik Verkest Coffee: COmpiler Framework for Energy-Aware Exploration. 193-208 2008 conf/hipeac/2008 HiPEAC https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77560-7_14 db/conf/hipeac/hipeac2008.html#RaghavanLAJCV08 Javed Absar Min Li 0001 Praveen Raghavan Andy Lambrechts Murali Jayapala Arnout Vandecappelle Francky Catthoor Locality optimization in wireless applications. 125-130 2007 CODES+ISSS https://doi.org/10.1145/1289816.1289850 conf/codes/2007 db/conf/codes/codes2007.html#AbsarLRLJVC07 Min (Leon) Li Bruno Bougard Javed Absar François Horlin Liesbet Van der Perre Francky Catthoor Efficient QRD for SRI-RLS Based Equalization on Programmable Architecture. 5-8 2007 ICASSP (2) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366158 conf/icassp/2007 db/conf/icassp/icassp2007.html#LiBAHPC07 Min Li 0001 Javed Absar Bruno Bougard Liesbet Van der Perre Francky Catthoor Systematic Optimization of Programmable QRD Implementation for Multiple Application Scenarios. 19-24 2007 SiPS https://doi.org/10.1109/SIPS.2007.4387510 conf/sips/2007 db/conf/sips/sips2007.html#LiABPC07

Javed Absar Francky Catthoor Reuse analysis of indirectly indexed arrays. 282-305 2006 11 ACM Trans. Design Autom. Electr. Syst. 2 https://doi.org/10.1145/1142155.1142157 db/journals/todaes/todaes11.html#AbsarC06

Javed Absar Francky Catthoor Analysis of scratch-pad and data-cache performance using statistical methods. 820-825 2006 conf/aspdac/2006 ASP-DAC https://doi.org/10.1109/ASPDAC.2006.1594787 https://doi.org/10.1145/1118299.1118486 db/conf/aspdac/aspdac2006.html#AbsarC06 Mohammed Javed Absar Francky Catthoor Compiler-Based Approach for Exploiting Scratch-Pad in Presence of Irregular Array Access. 1162-1167 2005 conf/date/2005 DATE https://doi.org/10.1109/DATE.2005.97 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/DATE.2005.97 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1049293 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130897329 db/conf/date/date2005.html#AbsarC05 Mohammed Javed Absar Pol Marchal Francky Catthoor Data-Access Optimization of Embedded Systems Through Selective Inlining Transformation. 75-80 2005 conf/estimedia/2005 ESTIMedia https://doi.org/10.1109/ESTMED.2005.1518077 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ESTMED.2005.1518077 db/conf/estimedia/estimedia2005.html#AbsarMC05

Evelyn Kurniawati Chiew Tong Lau A. Benjamin Premkumar Javed Absar Sapna George New implementation techniques of an efficient MPEG advanced audio coder. 655-665 2004 50 IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2004.1309445 db/journals/tce/tce50.html#KurniawatiLPAG04

Saman S. Abeysekera Kabi Prakash Padhi Javed Absar Sapna George An audio signal scaling technique harmonic grouping and shifting. 421-424 2004 conf/iscas/2004 ISCAS (3) db/conf/iscas/iscas2004-3.html#AbeysekeraPAG04 Evelyn Kurniawati Javed Absar Sapna George Chiew Tong Lau A. Benjamin Premkumar Single transform perceptual audio encoder. 599-602 2002 DSP https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDSP.2002.1028161 conf/icdsp/2002 db/conf/icdsp/icdsp2002.html#KurniawatiAGLP02 Evelyn Kurniawati Javed Absar Sapna George Chiew Tong Lau A. Benjamin Premkumar An investigation into different masking behaviours resulting from estimation of tonality index. 1035-1038 2002 DSP https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDSP.2002.1028267 conf/icdsp/2002 db/conf/icdsp/icdsp2002.html#KurniawatiAGLP02a Saman S. Abeysekera Kabi Prakash Padhi Javed Absar Sapna George Investigation of different frequency estimation techniques using the phase vocoder. 265-268 2001 conf/iscas/2001 ISCAS (2) https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2001.921058 db/conf/iscas/iscas2001-2.html#AbeysekeraPAG01 Mohammed Javed Absar Sapna George Antonio Alvarez Design of a transform coder for high quality audio signals. 1-4 1998 EUSIPCO https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7089746/ conf/eusipco/1998 db/conf/eusipco/eusipco1998.html#AbsarGA98 Saman S. Abeysekera Ankit Aggarwal Antonio Alvarez Riyadh Baghdadi Muthu Baskaran Ulysse Beaugnon Adam Betts Abhilash Bhandari Krishnaprasad Bindumadhavan Bruno Bougard Iulian Brumar Francky Catthoor Albert Cohen 0001 Snigdha Suresh Dalvi Dibyendu Das 0005 Robert David Alastair F. Donaldson Sapna George Tobias Grosser Mohit Gupta Sven van Haastregt Elnar Hajiyev François Horlin Fateme Hosseini Shalini Jain 0002 Murali Jayapala Jeroen Ketema Ravishankar Kolachana Venkat Rasagna Reddy Komatireddy Mitesh Kothari Alexey Kravets Michael Kruse Evelyn Kurniawati Sanjay Motilal Ladwa Andy Lambrechts Chiew Tong Lau Richard A. LethinRichard Lethin Min Li 0001Min (Leon) Li Anton Lokhmotov Paul MarchalPol Marchal Samarth Narang Kabi Prakash Padhi Vivek Vasudevbhai Pandya Liesbet Van der Perre A. Benjamin Premkumar Praveen Raghavan Tasmia Rahman Arun Rangasamy Chandan Reddy 0001 Abhikrant Sharma Deepak Shekhar Xiyue Shi Franck Slama David Tweed Arnout Vandecappelle Sven Verdoolaege Diederik Verkest Jyotsna Verma Zachary Zipper