We are pleased to announce the 6th Championship Branch Prediction (CBP2025), sponsored by ARM. CBP2025 will be held in conjunction with
ISCA 2025.
As in previous CBP iterations, the goal of this competition is to encourage researchers and
practitioners to push the envelope in branch prediction. CBP2025 features over 100 training traces sampled from industry relevant workloads. Each trace includes the complete instruction stream with
decode and execution information. Contestants are also provided a characterization of load-dependent branches in these traces and a generous 192KB budget for their predictors, to inspire designs that go beyond conventional branch/path history context. The CBP2025 infrastructure (simulator and traces),
contestants’ code, and results, will be disseminated to the computer architecture community for further research and independent verification of results.
If you are interested in participating or simply curious, please visit the CBP2025 website:
https://ericrotenberg.wordpress.ncsu.edu/cbp2025
CBP2025 Organizing Committee: Rami Sheikh (ARM), Saransh Jain (ARM)
CBP2025 Program Chair: Eric Rotenberg (NCSU)