| --- |
| license: mit |
| task_categories: |
| - text-generation |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - code-optimization |
| - code-performance |
| - gem5 |
| - pie |
| pretty_name: PIE gem5-timed code optimization (per source program) |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: train.parquet |
| - split: validation |
| path: validation.parquet |
| - split: test |
| path: test.parquet |
| --- |
| |
| # PIE gem5-timed code optimization (per source program) |
|
|
| C++ program-optimization data derived from the [PIE](https://pie4perf.com/) dataset |
| (["Learning Performance-Improving Code Edits"](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07867)), |
| **re-timed end-to-end with gem5** (x86 Skylake, syscall-emulation mode) at |
| **per-test-case granularity**. One row per unique (problem, source) program; the best surviving target is kept as an oracle ceiling. |
|
|
| This dataset is **reward-agnostic**: it ships the full per-test-case reference timings and |
| case manifests so a downstream RL / eval pipeline decides at runtime how many cases to use |
| (`K`) and which reward transform to apply. Nothing is baked in. |
|
|
| > **For an automated agent reading this card:** every column is documented in |
| > [§ Field dictionary](#field-dictionary) below, including its type, encoding, and which |
| > splits populate it. Start with [§ How to compute the reward](#how-to-compute-the-reward). |
|
|
| ## TL;DR units & encoding |
| - **Ticks are gem5 picoseconds.** `seconds = ticks * 1e-12`. |
| - Columns named `*_per_tc_ticks`, `*_tc2time`, `*_case_ids`, `*_excluded` are **JSON strings** |
| (a dict `{case_idx: value}` or a list `[case_idx, ...]`) — `json.loads` them. |
| Case indices are integers `0 .. n_cases_available-1`. |
| - `gem5_*` / `our_*` / `*_case_ids` / `n_*` / `flag_*` columns are produced by **this re-timing**. |
| `pie_*` columns are **carried verbatim** from the official PIE release. |
|
|
| ## How to compute the reward |
| The reward is a **speedup ratio** over a common set of test cases, robust to which cases you |
| sample: |
| ```python |
| import json, random |
| src = json.loads(row["gem5_src_per_tc_ticks"]) # {idx: ticks} |
| tgt = json.loads(row["gem5_tgt_per_tc_ticks"]) # ("oracle" variant in the bysrc dataset) |
| usable = json.loads(row["usable_case_ids"]) # correctness-kept ∩ both-timed ∩ ticks<=wall |
| K = 5 # runtime choice; -1 / len(usable) = use all |
| cases = usable if K < 0 else random.sample(usable, min(K, len(usable))) |
| speedup = sum(src[str(c)] for c in cases) / sum(tgt[str(c)] for c in cases) |
| ``` |
| `usable_case_ids` is already the correct, fully-filtered set — **do not** re-derive correctness |
| or apply the wall yourself. Always clamp `K` to `len(usable)`; never pad, skip, or zero-reward a |
| pair that has fewer than `K` usable cases. K=5–10 reproduces the full ~100-case aggregate within |
| ~1–2% (per-case time is near-uniform within a program). |
|
|
| `gem5_fastest_id` / `gem5_fastest_per_tc_ticks` give the **fastest surviving program of the |
| problem** (chosen among programs present in this dataset, ranked over the per-problem common |
| usable basis) as an oracle ceiling; `our_fastest_speedup` is src-vs-fastest over `usable_case_ids`. |
|
|
| ## Provenance & validation |
| - Timing engine: **gem5.fast**, X86 SE mode, with fork-from-live startup amortization (one |
| startup simulation, COW-forked per case; per-case ticks equal a fresh run, validated r=1.0). |
| - Validated against PIE's published numbers: per-test-case r=1.0 on the test split (aligned on |
| PIE's released `tests` indices); speedup log-correlation ~0.97–0.98, median ratio ~0.99. |
| - **Caveat — pin your toolchain.** The gem5 startup floor depends on the compiler/glibc/link |
| mode (≈13M ticks static ↔ ≈195M ticks dynamic). These reference ticks were produced with one |
| fixed toolchain; if you re-time rollouts, use the *same* toolchain or regenerate references, |
| otherwise speedups are not comparable. |
|
|
| ## Filtering (rows are pre-filtered; bad records are DROPPED, not flagged) |
| - **Compile-fail** programs dropped (`g++ -O2 -std=gnu++17`). |
| - **Bad-apple** programs dropped: a submission failing > max(5, 5% of cases) is treated as |
| wrong/mislabeled (line-wise + 1e-3 float comparator). |
| - **gem5 hard-excludes** (startup_fail / all-cases-hang-or-crash) dropped. |
| - **Case kept** iff every surviving good program of the problem passes it (correctness intersection). |
| - **Strict 2-min wall**: cases above 1.4e10 ticks dropped from `usable`. |
| - Source dropped if it fails > max(5, 5%); oracle target must also pass the same bar. |
| - 3 degenerate problems (empty input+output: p00000, p02068, p00754) dropped. |
| - Retained NON-dropping flags: `flag_low_headroom`, `flag_single_case`, `flag_empty_kept`. |
| |
| ## Splits & why some columns are null |
| | split | rows | notes | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | train | 16501 | PIE released reward/difficulty annotations but no benchmark `tests` here. | |
| | validation | 590 | same as train. | |
| | test | 878 | PIE released benchmark `tests` indices + per-tc reference times here. | |
| |
| PIE ships **different columns for test vs train/val**, so each row only fills the `pie_*` |
| columns that apply to its split; the rest are null **by design** (the schema is the union across |
| splits). Specifically: `pie_*_code_*`, `pie_fastest_code*`, `pie_*_tc2time`, `pie_n_tests`, |
| `pie_test_*`, `pie_tests_case_ids` are **test-only**; `pie_speedup`, `pie_*_verdict`, |
| `pie_*_reward_updated*`, `pie_fastest_agg_runtime_updated` are **train/val-only**. None of the |
| `gem5_*` / `our_*` / `*_case_ids` / `n_*` columns are ever null. |
|
|
| ## Field dictionary |
| Availability: **all** = populated in every split; **test-only** / **train/val-only** = null elsewhere. |
|
|
| ### Identity |
|
|
| | field | splits | meaning | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `problem_id` | all | PIE/online-judge problem id. Groups every submission for one problem; the unit the correctness-intersection and `tests` benchmark are defined over. | |
| | `src_id` | all | Submission id of the SOURCE (slower, to-be-optimized) program. | |
| | `oracle_tgt_id` | all | Submission id of the chosen ORACLE target = the surviving target with the highest `our_speedup_usable` for this source. [bysrc only] | |
| | `split` | all | Dataset split: train / validation / test. | |
| | `language` | all | Programming language. Always `cpp` (C++). | |
|
|
| ### Code |
|
|
| | field | splits | meaning | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `src_code` | all | Full C++ source of the source program. | |
| | `oracle_tgt_code` | all | Full C++ source of the oracle target program. [bysrc only] | |
|
|
| ### Our gem5 per-test-case timing |
|
|
| | field | splits | meaning | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `gem5_src_per_tc_ticks` | all | JSON {case_idx: ticks}. gem5 picoseconds PER TEST CASE for the SRC program. Seconds = ticks * 1e-12. Holds EVERY case gem5 timed (incl. cases later discarded by correctness/wall filters) — select cases via `usable_case_ids`. | |
| | `gem5_oracle_tgt_per_tc_ticks` | all | JSON {case_idx: ticks} for the oracle target (same convention). [bysrc only] | |
| | `gem5_fastest_id` | all | Submission id of the FASTEST surviving program for this problem, chosen among programs that appear as a src/tgt in THIS dataset, ranked by summed gem5 ticks over the per-problem common usable case basis. The practical oracle ceiling. | |
| | `gem5_fastest_per_tc_ticks` | all | JSON {case_idx: ticks} for the FASTEST program of this problem (see `gem5_fastest_id`); full per-case gem5 timing, same convention. | |
| | `gem5_fastest_usable_case_ids` | all | Usable case set for the fastest program = kept ∩ fastest-timed ∩ wall. | |
| | `gem5_fastest_sum_ticks_usable` | all | Sum of FASTEST-program ticks over `usable_case_ids`. Denominator of `our_fastest_speedup`. | |
| | `gem5_src_excluded` | all | JSON list of case indices gem5 could NOT time for the SRC program (hang / crash / over compute budget during the sweep). | |
| | `gem5_src_status` | all | gem5 sweep status for the src program: `ok` (all cases timed) or `forkloop_partial` (some cases excluded). Hard-fail statuses (startup_fail / native_all_excluded) are already dropped. | |
| | `gem5_oracle_tgt_status` | all | gem5 sweep status for the oracle target. [bysrc only] | |
| | `gem5_src_sum_ticks_all` | all | Sum of SRC ticks over `common_timed_case_ids` (cases timed on both sides). Numerator of `our_speedup_all`. | |
|
|
| ### Case-id sets (JSON int lists) + counts |
|
|
| | field | splits | meaning | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `timed_case_ids` | all | Case indices gem5 timed for the src (within the 2-min wall). [bysrc only] | |
| | `correctness_kept_case_ids` | all | Case indices passed by EVERY good (non-bad-apple, compile-ok) program of the problem = the correctness intersection. Problem-level, identical across rows of a problem. | |
| | `usable_case_ids` | all | THE case set to use for the reward = correctness-kept ∩ both-sides-timed ∩ ticks≤1.4e10 (pairs) / kept ∩ src-timed ∩ wall (bysrc). Falls back to all-timed when the kept set is empty (single-case problems). | |
| | `n_timed` | all | len(timed_case_ids). [bysrc only] | |
| | `n_kept` | all | len(correctness_kept_case_ids). | |
| | `n_usable` | all | len(usable_case_ids). The effective case count behind the speedup. | |
| | `n_cases_available` | all | Total test cases that exist for the problem in the merged test-case set. | |
| | `src_n_fail` | all | # cases the SRC program failed in the native correctness screen (line-wise + 1e-3 float comparator). 0 = passed all. | |
|
|
| ### Derived speedups + flags |
|
|
| | field | splits | meaning | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `our_speedup_usable` | all | **Reference speedup** = sum(src ticks) / sum(tgt ticks) over `usable_case_ids`. Case-set-invariant; this is what training should reproduce. | |
| | `our_speedup_all` | all | sum(src)/sum(tgt) over `common_timed_case_ids` (no correctness/wall filtering). Provenance/debug. | |
| | `our_fastest_speedup` | all | sum(src ticks)/sum(fastest ticks) over `usable_case_ids`. Speedup of the src against the FASTEST program of the problem = the practical oracle ceiling for this source. | |
| | `ceiling_speedup` | all | Mean per-case src ticks / startup floor (192M ticks). Theoretical max speedup attainable for this src given the gem5 startup floor. Drives `flag_low_headroom`. | |
| | `flag_low_headroom` | all | True if ceiling_speedup < 1.5 — little room to optimize (kept, not dropped). | |
| | `flag_single_case` | all | True if the problem has only one test case. | |
| | `flag_empty_kept` | all | True if the correctness intersection was empty (single-case false-alarm problems; usable then falls back to all-timed). | |
| |
| ### Carried verbatim from PIE (`pie_*`) |
| |
| | field | splits | meaning | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `pie_src_agg_runtime` | all | PIE's published aggregate wall-clock runtime (seconds) of the src program (their gem5 measurement). | |
| | `pie_oracle_tgt_agg_runtime` | all | PIE's published aggregate runtime (s) of the oracle tgt. [bysrc only] | |
| | `pie_speedup` | train/val-only | PIE's published src/tgt speedup. [train/val only] | |
| | `pie_fastest_agg_runtime` | all | PIE's published aggregate runtime (s) of the problem's fastest solution. | |
| | `pie_src_verdict` | train/val-only | Online-judge verdict for the src (e.g. Accepted). [train/val only] | |
| | `pie_oracle_tgt_verdict` | train/val-only | Online-judge verdict for the oracle tgt. [bysrc, train/val only] | |
| | `pie_fastest_agg_runtime_updated` | train/val-only | PIE's re-measured fastest-solution agg runtime. [train/val only] | |
| | `pie_src_reward_updated` | train/val-only | PIE's annotated reward for the src. [train/val only] | |
| | `pie_src_reward_updated_pct_bin` | train/val-only | PIE's difficulty/percentile bin for the src reward. [train/val only] | |
| | `pie_n_tests` | test-only | # benchmark test cases PIE used for this problem. [test only] | |
| | `pie_test_accuracy` | test-only | PIE's reported accuracy over the benchmark cases. [test only] | |
| | `pie_src_code_accuracy` | test-only | PIE's src accuracy over the benchmark cases. [test only] | |
| | `pie_src_code_compilation` | test-only | PIE's src compilation flag. [test only] | |
| | `pie_fastest_code` | test-only | Full C++ source of the fastest solution PIE identified for the problem. [test only] | |
| | `pie_fastest_code_len` | test-only | Token/char length of pie_fastest_code as PIE recorded it. [test only] | |
| | `pie_fastest_code_runtime` | test-only | PIE's agg runtime (s) of pie_fastest_code. [test only] | |
| | `pie_src_code_tc2time` | test-only | PIE's OWN per-test-case times for the src, JSON {idx: seconds}. [test only] | |
| | `pie_oracle_tgt_code_tc2time` | test-only | PIE's OWN per-test-case times for the oracle tgt, JSON {idx: seconds}. [bysrc, test only] | |
| | `pie_fastest_code_tc2time` | test-only | PIE's OWN per-test-case times for the fastest solution, JSON {idx: seconds}. [test only] | |
| | `pie_tests_case_ids` | test-only | JSON list of the benchmark case indices PIE released for this test problem (subset of 0..n_cases_available-1). [test only] | |
| |
| ## Companion dataset |
| This is one of a pair built from the same timing: |
| - **pie-gem5-pairs** — one row per official (src, tgt) pair. |
| - **pie-gem5-bysrc** — one row per unique (problem, src); best surviving target kept as oracle. |
| |
| Built 2026-06-12. Timing: gem5.fast with fork-from-live startup amortization. |
| |