arxiv: 2512.22168 · v2 · submitted 2025-12-17 · 💻 cs.DC · cs.PL

TileLoom: Automatic Dataflow Planning for Tile-Based Languages on Spatial Dataflow Accelerators

Wei Li , Zhenyu Bai , Heru Wang , Pranav Dangi , Zhiqiang Zhang , Cheng Tan , Huiying Lan , Weng-Fai Wong

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Tulika Mitra

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keywords TileLoomspatial dataflowtile-based compilationdataflow planningMLIRTritonaccelerator mappingTenstorrent

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TileLoom automatically maps tile-based programs like Triton kernels to spatial dataflow accelerators by planning data movement across on-chip networks.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents TileLoom as an MLIR-based compiler framework that takes tile-based programs and distributes their instances across spatially arranged cores. It uses a hardware model to route data over the on-chip network and local memories, cutting reliance on slow global memory. This matters because spatial accelerators can reduce memory bottlenecks in traditional processors, yet they have remained hard to program without expert tuning. By automating the mapping, TileLoom lets ordinary tile code run efficiently on these architectures. Tests on two generations of Tenstorrent hardware show the results match the speed of hand-written vendor libraries.

Core claim

TileLoom is an end-to-end framework that compiles tile-based programs onto spatial dataflow architectures by distributing tile instances across spatially distributed cores and exploiting the on-chip network and distributed memories to increase data reuse and reduce communication. It introduces a hardware representation that captures interconnect topology, memory hierarchy, and compute capabilities, enabling both architecture-specific optimizations and support for diverse spatial dataflow targets.

What carries the argument

A hardware representation that models interconnect topology, memory hierarchy, and compute capabilities to guide automatic distribution of tiles and data movement.

If this is right

Tile-based code written for GPUs can run on spatial accelerators without rewriting for each new hardware topology.
Communication volume drops because tiles forward operands directly between nearby cores instead of using global memory.
A single compiler framework supports multiple generations of spatial dataflow machines through updated hardware models.
Users no longer need to rely exclusively on vendor-supplied hand-tuned libraries for good performance.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same planning approach could apply to other tile-based front ends beyond Triton, widening the set of languages that target spatial hardware.
On larger chips with more cores the automatic mappings may outperform hand tuning because exhaustive manual placement becomes infeasible.
Future spatial architectures could expose the same hardware representation interface, letting TileLoom serve as a portable backend.

Load-bearing premise

The hardware representation accurately captures the interconnect topology, memory hierarchy, and compute capabilities of the target spatial dataflow architectures.

What would settle it

Compile the same set of kernels with TileLoom and with vendor libraries, then run both on the same Tenstorrent hardware and compare execution time and output correctness.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2512.22168 by Cheng Tan, Heru Wang, Huiying Lan, Pranav Dangi, Tulika Mitra, Wei Li, Weng-Fai Wong, Zhenyu Bai, Zhiqiang Zhang.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: TL framework overview. cides spatiotemporal mappings, data movements and generate candidates in a standard dataflow-aware MLIR representation; a back-end that generates hardware-specific executables for each core, all guided by the multi-level architecture representation and performance model. The front-end takes as input a tile-level kernel and a description of how that kernel is scaled out over the ful… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Example 1D triple-ring architecture modeled with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Pipelined execution of a matrix multiplication. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Performance of GEMM: TL using top-5 statically selected candidates vs. TTNN and its TT-1D / TT-2D templates on different hardware configurations. 256 512 1024 2048 K Dimension Size 0 20 40 Performance (TFLOPs) (a) Fixed M=N=32768 256 512 1024 2048 N Dimension Size (b) Fixed M=K=32768 TT-1D TT-2D TTNN TileLoom [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Performance comparison of GEMM under irregular [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Validation of TL’s performance model against measured GEMM performance. Number of static candidates k (top-k). As discussed in Section 2.5, TL ranks all candidate dataflow mappings using its performance model, selects the top-k candidates, profiles these on hardware, and finally chooses the best among them. The parameter k therefore controls a trade-off between compilation cost and final performance. To… view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Normalized performance of TL on GeMM with and without temporal mappings. many configurations operate near the compute roof. Performance model. We validate TL’s performance model by comparing its predicted throughput against measured hardware performance for GEMM over a wide range of (M,N,K) configurations [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_8.png] view at source ↗

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Spatial dataflow accelerators are a promising direction for next-generation computer systems because they can reduce the memory bottlenecks of traditional von Neumann machines such as CPUs and GPUs. They organize computation around explicit, compiler-managed data movement over on-chip networks, allowing operands to be forwarded directly between processing elements and reducing reliance on high-latency, bandwidth-limited global shared memory. However, their performance depends strongly on how workloads are mapped to hardware. Naive mappings can perform poorly, and most users rely on hand-tuned vendor libraries. Thus, despite their potential for high performance, energy efficiency, and cost efficiency, limited programmability remains a major barrier to wider adoption. This paper presents TileLoom, an MLIR-based end-to-end framework that compiles tile-based programs, such as Triton kernels, onto spatial dataflow architectures. Unlike compiler frameworks that focus on optimizing code generation within a single tile, TileLoom distributes tile instances across spatially distributed cores and exploits the on-chip network and distributed memories to increase data reuse and reduce communication. TileLoom introduces a hardware representation that captures interconnect topology, memory hierarchy, and compute capabilities, enabling both architecture-specific optimizations and support for diverse spatial dataflow targets. In experiments on two generations of Tenstorrent systems, TileLoom achieves performance comparable to vendor libraries on various kernels.

Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

TileLoom gives a working MLIR path to spread Triton-style tiles across Tenstorrent spatial arrays using an explicit hardware model, but the model itself has almost no validation against real interconnect or memory behavior.

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TileLoom stands out because it moves past single-tile code generation and instead plans how to distribute tile instances across the spatial cores, routing data over the on-chip network and using distributed memories. The paper supplies an MLIR-based end-to-end pipeline plus a hardware representation that records topology, memory hierarchy, and compute units so the compiler can target different spatial dataflow chips without rewriting the mapping logic by hand. That combination is the concrete advance over earlier work that stayed inside one tile or assumed a fixed layout. The experiments on two generations of Tenstorrent hardware report performance comparable to vendor libraries on the kernels they tried, which at least shows the flow produces runnable code that is not obviously broken. The hardware model is presented as the piece that makes architecture-specific decisions possible, and the authors appear to have shipped a working implementation rather than just a sketch. The soft spot is exactly where the stress-test note points: the hardware representation is introduced but never shown to match measured behavior. There is no account of how topology or bandwidth parameters were obtained from the actual chips, no microbenchmark results comparing modeled versus observed latencies, and no sensitivity checks. Without that grounding, it is hard to know whether the generated mappings are reliably legal and efficient or whether they simply happened to work on the tested cases. The performance numbers themselves are stated at a high level with no quantitative tables, baseline details, or variability discussion in the material available, so the comparability claim cannot be checked for robustness. This paper is aimed at compiler builders and accelerator users who want to move workloads onto spatial hardware without writing everything by hand. A reader working on MLIR extensions or dataflow mapping would get usable ideas from the framework even if they have to redo the validation themselves. It deserves a serious referee because the problem is real, the implementation is end-to-end, and the core idea can be tested and improved once the evaluation is tightened.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper presents TileLoom, an MLIR-based end-to-end framework for compiling tile-based programs such as Triton kernels to spatial dataflow accelerators. It introduces a hardware representation that captures interconnect topology, memory hierarchy, and compute capabilities to automatically distribute tile instances across cores, exploit on-chip networks for data reuse, and generate mappings. Experiments on two generations of Tenstorrent systems report performance comparable to vendor libraries on various kernels.

Significance. If the results hold under rigorous validation, TileLoom would meaningfully advance programmability for spatial dataflow architectures by replacing hand-tuned libraries with automatic planning while preserving performance. The reusable hardware model abstraction supports multiple targets and integrates cleanly with MLIR, which are concrete strengths that could accelerate adoption in the field.

major comments (2)

[§4] §4 (Hardware Representation): the central performance claim rests on this model correctly capturing interconnect topology, memory hierarchy, and compute capabilities so that generated mappings are both legal and near-optimal. The manuscript supplies no description of how topology or bandwidth parameters are obtained, no microbenchmark validation of modeled vs. measured latencies, and no sensitivity analysis showing that small modeling errors do not produce large performance deviations. This is load-bearing for the comparability result.
[§5] §5 (Experimental Evaluation): the claim of 'performance comparable to vendor libraries' is stated without quantitative metrics, baseline details, absolute runtimes, or a clear description of the experimental methodology and kernel set. Without these, it is impossible to assess whether the result is robust or merely coincidental on the tested cases.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: the performance claim would be more informative if it included at least one concrete metric (e.g., average speedup or range) rather than the qualitative statement 'comparable'.
[Throughout] Notation: ensure consistent terminology between 'tile instances', 'dataflow planning', and 'mappings' across sections to avoid reader confusion.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address the two major comments point by point below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate additional details on the hardware model and experimental evaluation.

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Referee: [§4] §4 (Hardware Representation): the central performance claim rests on this model correctly capturing interconnect topology, memory hierarchy, and compute capabilities so that generated mappings are both legal and near-optimal. The manuscript supplies no description of how topology or bandwidth parameters are obtained, no microbenchmark validation of modeled vs. measured latencies, and no sensitivity analysis showing that small modeling errors do not produce large performance deviations. This is load-bearing for the comparability result.

Authors: We agree that the hardware representation is foundational and that the manuscript would be strengthened by explicit details on parameter acquisition and validation. In the revised version we will expand §4 with a description of how topology, bandwidth, and compute parameters are derived from Tenstorrent public hardware specifications and datasheets. We will also add microbenchmark results that compare modeled latencies against direct measurements on the target devices, and we will include a sensitivity study showing the effect of small parameter perturbations on final performance. These additions will be placed in §4 and will directly support the legality and near-optimality claims. revision: yes
Referee: [§5] §5 (Experimental Evaluation): the claim of 'performance comparable to vendor libraries' is stated without quantitative metrics, baseline details, absolute runtimes, or a clear description of the experimental methodology and kernel set. Without these, it is impossible to assess whether the result is robust or merely coincidental on the tested cases.

Authors: We acknowledge that the current experimental section would benefit from greater quantitative transparency. In the revision we will augment §5 with explicit performance ratios and absolute runtimes for each kernel, precise identification of the vendor library baselines (including version and configuration), and a complete description of the experimental methodology, kernel set, input sizes, and hardware setups on both Tenstorrent generations. These changes will allow readers to evaluate the robustness of the comparability result. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; performance claims rest on implementation and external benchmarking

full rationale

The paper describes an MLIR-based compiler framework (TileLoom) that introduces a hardware representation for spatial dataflow targets and reports experimental results on real Tenstorrent hardware. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-referential derivations are present in the provided text. The central performance claim is obtained by running generated code on physical systems and comparing against vendor libraries, which constitutes independent empirical validation rather than any reduction to inputs by construction. No load-bearing self-citations or ansatzes are invoked to force the result.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The framework relies on standard compiler infrastructure (MLIR) and an assumed accurate hardware model; no free parameters, ad-hoc axioms, or invented entities are visible in the abstract.

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