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Daniel Krüger

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RunSoC 2.0: Scheduling and Allocating Automotive Software Tasks to Hardware Partitions in Heterogeneous MPSoCs

Centralized automotive architectures increasingly consolidate compute-intensive workloads onto heterogeneous Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC), creating strict execution, memory, and communication constraints. This paper presents RunSoC 2.0, a customizable framework for early-stage design-space exploration of task scheduling and allocation on heterogeneous MPSoCs. Building on RunSoC 1.0, which targeted allocation on homogeneous hardware, RunSoC 2.0 extends the framework to heterogeneous platforms by modeling processor-specific execution times, cluster-level organization, and domain-specific processing properties. It represents task sets as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) subjected to strict end-to-end latency and core-affinity constraints, and formulates task scheduling and allocation as a multi-objective optimization problem that minimizes hierarchical memory-budget violations and inter-core/inter-cluster communication penalties. The framework supports multiple solving backends, including COIN-OR Branch and Cut (CBC), Google OR-Tools CP-SAT, and a Genetic Algorithm (GA), enabling comparative evaluation of exact, constraint-programming, and meta-heuristic approaches. We evaluate RunSoC 2.0 using synthetic automotive task sets ranging from 10 to 500 tasks, mapped to representative heterogeneous MPSoCs, including the Renesas R-Car V4H, NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, and TI TDA4VM. The results show that RunSoC 2.0 can generate feasible and optimal schedules, expose architectural bottlenecks, and support rapid comparison of platform alternatives. Notably, CP-SAT consistently outperforms both CBC and the GA across tightly constrained hard real-time scheduling instances. By incorporating cluster-aware communication and memory modeling, RunSoC 2.0 improves the realism of early-stage MPSoC analysis while retaining practical solution times for large automotive workloads. (..)

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Recommendations on test datasets for evaluating AI solutions in pathology

Artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that automatically extract information from digital histology images have shown great promise for improving pathological diagnosis. Prior to routine use, it is important to evaluate their predictive performance and obtain regulatory approval. This assessment requires appropriate test datasets. However, compiling such datasets is challenging and specific recommendations are missing. A committee of various stakeholders, including commercial AI developers, pathologists, and researchers, discussed key aspects and conducted extensive literature reviews on test datasets in pathology. Here, we summarize the results and derive general recommendations for the collection of test datasets. We address several questions: Which and how many images are needed? How to deal with low-prevalence subsets? How can potential bias be detected? How should datasets be reported? What are the regulatory requirements in different countries? The recommendations are intended to help AI developers demonstrate the utility of their products and to help regulatory agencies and end users verify reported performance measures. Further research is needed to formulate criteria for sufficiently representative test datasets so that AI solutions can operate with less user intervention and better support diagnostic workflows in the future.

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Stationary vine copula models for multivariate time series

Multivariate time series exhibit two types of dependence: across variables and across time points. Vine copulas are graphical models for the dependence and can conveniently capture both types of dependence in the same model. We derive the maximal class of graph structures that guarantee stationarity under a natural and verifiable condition called translation invariance. We propose computationally efficient methods for estimation, simulation, prediction, and uncertainty quantification and show their validity by asymptotic results and simulations. The theoretical results allow for misspecified models and, even when specialized to the iid case, go beyond what is available in the literature. Their proofs are based on new results for general semiparametric method-of-moment estimators, which shall be of independent interest. The new model class is illustrated by an application to forecasting returns of a portfolio of 20 stocks, where they show excellent forecast performance. The paper is accompanied by an open source software implementation.

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