Tutorial Slides

Beamer decks for the MLSys·im ISCA tutorial — analytical, first-principles ML systems modeling.

The MLSys·im tutorial is delivered as two Beamer decks. Both PDFs are built from source on every release (see mlsysim/tutorial/slides/) and published alongside this site so links never go stale.

Part 1 — Morning Session (Parts 0–4)

Foundations: the iron law of ML systems, the roofline model, memory bandwidth limits, and the two phases of LLM inference.

PDF: build from source per the instructions below — bundled artifact pending.

Part 2 — Afternoon Session (Parts 5–9)

Scale and cost: distributed training, KV-cache pressure, geography as a systems variable, and design-space exploration.

PDF: build from source per the instructions below — bundled artifact pending.

Source

Both decks live in the mlsysim/tutorial/slides/ directory of the MLSysBook repository. To rebuild locally:

cd mlsysim/tutorial
make

This produces _build/tutorial_part1.pdf and _build/tutorial_part2.pdf using xelatex and the shared beamerthememlsys theme. Prerequisites: xelatex (TeX Live or MacTeX) plus either inkscape or rsvg-convert for SVG conversion.

Looking for the textbook lecture slides?

The 35-deck textbook lecture series covering both volumes of Machine Learning Systems lives at mlsysbook.ai/slides. Those decks are organized by chapter and are independent of the MLSys·im tutorial.

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