Giuseppe Vietri, Liana V. Rodriguez, Wendy A. Martinez, Steven Lyons, Jason Liu, and Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University; Ming Zhao, Arizona State University; Giri Narasimhan, Florida International University
Can machine learning (ML) be used to improve on existing cache replacement strategies? We propose a general framework called LeCaR that uses the ML technique of regret minimization to answer the question in the affirmative. Surprisingly, we show that the LeCaR framework outperforms A RC using only two fundamental eviction policies – LRU and LFU. We also show that the performance gap increases when the size of the available cache gets smaller relative to the size of the working set.
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author = {Giuseppe Vietri and Liana V. Rodriguez and Wendy A. Martinez and Steven Lyons and Jason Liu and Raju Rangaswami and Ming Zhao and Giri Narasimhan},
title = {Driving Cache Replacement with {ML-based} {LeCaR}},
booktitle = {10th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage 18)},
year = {2018},
address = {Boston, MA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotstorage18/presentation/vietri},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul
}
