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📝 Editorial: The ML Hardware Virtualization Layer

Throughout the last few decades, the software industry has evolved based on paradigms that abstracts the complexities of the corresponding hardware architectures. Entire trends such as virtualization or containerization were born out of the need of abstracting software computations from hardware topologies. Machine learning(ML) has sort of reversed that trend and reintroduce a strong dependencies between software in the form of ML models and specialized hardware. Those dependencies do not only materialize in the optimization of ML models for specific hardware topologies but in the correct utilization of hardware resources across different stages of the lifecycle of ML solutions such as training, execution and…