Tutorial Day

On this years ARITH we are organizing a special Tutorial Day before the conference on Saturday, June 27.
The goal of this day is to give an introduction to several different topics to young researchers.
This year the topics are mixed precision deep neural network training & compression, fast, approximate but rigorous floating-point arithmetic, and multi-level compilation for hardware implementation.
Each tutorial is illustrated on actively developed tools.

The tutorial day is free of charge for registered ARITH attendees.
We will start with presentations in the morning and hands-on sessions in the afternoon.
This is an opportunity to learn from experts and engage with peers before the main event.

Time: Saturday 27th June 09:30-17:30

Registration

Registration is mandatory and open at https://forms.gle/JjMdTgj4zdMwXvXdA

Program

All talks take place at room 203 in building 51 (SSC, see campus plan).

Time (UTC+2)

Saturday June 27th, 2026
9:30 to 10:00 Registration and Welcome
10:00 to 12:00 Silviu Filip (INRIA Rennes): Tools for the study of mixed precision DNN training & compressions
12:00 to 13:00 Lunch
13:00 to 15:00 Christoph Lauter (University of Texas, El Paso): Fast but wrong? An introduction to fast, approximate but rigorous floating-point arithmetic, from multiplication over addition to elementary functions
15:00 to 15:30 Break
15:30 to 17:30 Samuel Coward (University College London), Louis Ledoux (INSA Lyon): Optimizing Datapath Circuits with MLIR and CIRCT
Many people have heard of MLIR, so this tutorial will provide a brief overview of how compiler technologies are offering an alternative approach to EDA. Exploring the CIRCT project, we will demonstrate the Verilog front-end, formal verification tooling and the beginnings of a synthesis pipeline. (https://circt.llvm.org/)

This will be an interactive tutorial so participants are welcome to follow along using a docker build that is available here: https://github.com/cowardsa/CIRCT_TUTORIAL_2026

Visit of the Konrad Zuse Museum

The Konrad Zuse Museum (https://www.zuse-museum-huenfeld.de/) in Hünfeld (25 minutes by bus from Fulda) offers a uniqe collections of the earliest machines developed by Konrad Zuse, the German pioneer of computing.
This includes a functioning relay-based replica of the famous Zuse Z3.
We offer a free visit to all attendees of the Tutorial Day to the Zuse Museum incl. a guided tour on Sunday, June 28 at 14:00. The bus starts at 13:30 from the Fulda central bus station. We start from the campus at 13:00.

Organization