Performance Prediction for Hardware-Software Configurations: A Case Study for Video Games

Peeters, Sven; Melnikov, Vitalik and Hüllermeier, Eyke (26. April 2021): Performance Prediction for Hardware-Software Configurations: A Case Study for Video Games. 19th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, Porto, Portugal, April 26–28, 2021. In: Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XIX, Vol. 12695 pp. 222-234

Abstract

Performance prediction for hardware-software configurations is a relevant and practically important problem. With an increasing availability of data in the form of performance measurements, this problem becomes amenable to machine learning, i.e., the data-driven construction of predictive models. In this paper, we propose a learning method that is specifically tailored to the task of performance prediction and takes two important characteristics of this problem into account: (i) prior knowledge in the form of monotonicity constraints, suggesting that certain properties of hard- or software can influence performance only positively or negatively, and (ii) strong differences in the precision and reliability of performance measurements available as training data. We evaluate our method on a real-world dataset from the domain of performance prediction in video games, which we specifically collected for this purpose.

• Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Faculties: Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Subjects: 000 Computer science, information and general works > 000 Computer science, knowledge, and systems
• ISSN: 0302-9743
• Language: English