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arxiv: 2605.11333 · v3 · pith:3VSRKNJ6new · submitted 2026-05-11 · 💻 cs.DC · cs.LG· cs.PF

MLCommons Chakra: Advancing Performance Benchmarking and Co-design using Standardized Execution Traces

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Chakra defines an open graph-based execution trace format to standardize observation and co-design of distributed AI/ML workloads.

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The paper introduces Chakra as an ecosystem built around Chakra execution traces, which are graph representations that encode compute, memory, communication operations plus their data and control dependencies, timing, and resource constraints. This format aims to let researchers and engineers collect traces from real production clusters, then replay or simulate them consistently across different tools without relying on proprietary data. The goal is faster iteration on workload optimization and hardware-software co-design by making traces portable and interoperable. Industry adoption through MLCommons is presented as evidence that the approach can scale beyond individual labs.

Core claim

The central contribution is the Chakra execution trace, an open and interoperable graph-based representation of distributed AI/ML workloads that captures key operations such as compute, memory, and communication together with data and control dependencies, timing, and resource constraints, accompanied by tools for trace collection, analysis, generation, and use by simulators, emulators, and replay systems.

What carries the argument

Chakra execution trace (ET), a graph-based representation that encodes operations, dependencies, timing, and constraints to enable analysis and replay across independent tools.

If this is right

  • Traces collected on existing AI clusters can be reused to evaluate new hardware designs without re-running the full workload.
  • Different research groups can compare optimization results using identical ETs instead of custom trace formats.
  • Co-design loops can alternate between trace generation from software changes and simulation on proposed hardware.
  • Industry-wide benchmarking becomes more reproducible once tools adopt the common ET format.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If ETs become widely adopted, the cost of developing new performance tools could drop because each tool would only need to read one format rather than many proprietary ones.
  • The same graph structure might later support automated search for better workload mappings or communication schedules.
  • Extending the format to include power or thermal constraints could link performance traces directly to energy-efficiency studies.

Load-bearing premise

A single graph-based execution trace format can sufficiently capture the essential operations, dependencies, timing, and resource constraints of production-scale distributed ML workloads so that many different simulators and emulators can use the same traces effectively.

What would settle it

Run the same production-scale workload trace through several independent simulators and check whether they produce performance predictions that match each other and real hardware measurements within a small error margin.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.11333 by Andy Balogh, Ashwin Ramachandran, Bradford M. Beckmann, Brian Coutinho, Changhai Man, Dan Mihailescu, David Kanter, Hanjiang Wu, Huan Xu, Jinsun Yoo, Joongun Park, Josh Ladd, Louis Feng, Mehryar Garakani, Phio Tian, Puneet Sharma, Saeed Rashidi, Sanshan Gao, Sheng Fu, Spandan More, Srinivas Sridharan, Taekyung Heo, Theodor-Adrian Badea, Tushar Krishna, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Vinay Ramakrishnaiah, William Won, Winston Liu, Ziwei Li.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: AI system SW-HW co-design flow [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 1. Figure 1: AI system SW-HW co-design flow. to reproduce behaviors in different environments. Simula￾tors and emulators are a dime-a-dozen across NPU compute and networking vendors, of varying degrees of fidelity. Each of these have their own custom formats for describing work￾loads and the AI platform architecture. This fragmentation creates barriers to platform-agnostic analysis and co-design, and limits the opportu… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Chakra Infrastructure Overview. to describe distributed AI workload performance behavior over an AI platform. Analogous to instruction and mem￾ory traces (Ranganathan & Victor), ETs record operator dimensions for compute and communication and their de￾pendencies while avoiding disclosure of model or dataset details. Software organizations can share ETs of internal workloads with hardware vendors, who can i… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Chakra ET visualization example. broad tasks: analysis, replay and simulation/emulation that are required at different times within the development cycle of AI platforms. The open schema enables interoperability across different stages and diverse open/proprietary tools. 4.1 Trace Analysis Chakra offers a range of open-source tools to help users vi￾sualize, analyze, and consume execution traces. We describ… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Normalized execution time breakdown across workloads for traces collected on the system mentioned in Sec. 5. For each workload, we show measured performance from Kineto (left) and the performance via trace reconstruction through Chakra (right). AllToAll AllGather ReduceScatter AllReduce Collective Communication Type 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 Total Duration (µs) 1e7 4.1× slower 4.4× slower 1.5× slower 9.7× sl… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Total collective communication runtime comparison at 400 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s InfiniBand. Measured on training Mixtral￾8×22B with 32 GPUs (four HGX-8×H200 nodes, TP/SP=4, EP=8) and the global batch size of 32. open-source tools like Genie (Yoo et al., 2026b) as well as commercial system emulators like Keysight AI Data Center Builder (Keysight Technologies, 2025), which now support the Chakra format for worklo… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: GPU memory utilization for different LLM models dur￾ing one training step. Traces are aligned relative to the start of each epoch. Each model and its corresponding parallelization match the first entry (row) in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Compute characteristics of the Mixtral-8x22-Chakra trace. (a) Most compute kernels complete within 2–102 µs. (b) The majority of nodes have 10–500 parent data dependencies. 5.2 Trace Replay Case Studies Replaying Chakra ETs on real systems allows reproduc￾ing the exact workload behavior either fully (replay both compute and comms operations) or partial replay (replay selective operations). The latter enabl… view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Bus bandwidth per iteration when (a) All-Reduce (b) All-to-All (c) mixing All-to-All and All-Reduce in one time span. AllReduce1 AllReduce10 AllReduce2 AllReduce3 AllReduce4 AllReduce5 AllReduce6 AllReduce7 AllReduce8 AllReduce9 AllToAll1 AllToAll10 AllToAll2 AllToAll3 AllToAll4 AllToAll5 AllToAll6 AllToAll7 AllToAll8 AllToAll9 Percentile 100 80 60 40 20 0 Completion Time (ms) 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Mixing collectives results of CDF. Result. The experiment revealed a significant performance anomaly when interleaving All-Reduce and All-to-All col￾lectives. While both collectives show stable performance in isolation ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Communication time for different network topology and bandwidth with Mixtral 8x7B target. connected. Additionally, we test bandwidths ranging from 75 GB/s to 900 GB/s. The Mixtral 8×7B model serves as the workload for this evaluation. Results [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Distribution of token routing among two expert parallel rank for each model layer. The input has six tokens and the model used is Mixtral 8x7B with 32 layers. 0 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 Model Layer ID 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 KV Transfer Duration (µs) Send (prefill) Recv (decode) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Runtime breakdown of the KV cache transfer for in￾ferencing Llama3-8B between one prefill and decode GPU. The captured trace denotes the per-layer (32 layers for Llama3-8B) send and receive latency between two GPUs. 5.5.3 KV-Cache Transfer In inference, when disaggregating prefill and decode stages on different GPUs (Patel et al., 2024; Zhong et al., 2024; Bambhaniya et al., 2026), it introduces unique po… view at source ↗
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The fast pace of artificial intelligence~(AI) innovation demands an agile methodology for observation, reproduction and optimization of distributed machine learning~(ML) workload behavior in production AI systems and enables efficient software-hardware~(SW-HW) co-design for future systems. We present Chakra, an open and portable ecosystem for performance benchmarking and co-design. The core component of Chakra is an open and interoperable graph-based representation of distributed AI/ML workloads, called Chakra execution trace~(ET). These ETs represent key operations, such as compute, memory, and communication, data and control dependencies, timing, and resource constraints. Additionally, Chakra includes a complementary set of tools and capabilities to enable the collection, analysis, generation, and adoption of Chakra ETs by a broad range of simulators, emulators, and replay tools. We present analysis of Chakra ETs collected on production AI clusters and demonstrate value via real-world case studies. Chakra has been adopted by MLCommons and has active contributions and engagement across the industry, including but not limited to NVIDIA, AMD, Meta, Keysight, HPE, and Scala, to name a few.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces Chakra, an open and portable ecosystem for performance benchmarking and co-design of distributed AI/ML workloads. Its core is the Chakra execution trace (ET), a graph-based representation capturing compute, memory, and communication operations along with data/control dependencies, timing, and resource constraints. Complementary tools support collection, analysis, generation, and adoption of ETs by simulators, emulators, and replay tools. The work includes analysis of production AI cluster traces and real-world case studies, and notes adoption by MLCommons with contributions from NVIDIA, AMD, Meta, Keysight, HPE, and Scala.

Significance. A standardized, interoperable ET format with supporting tools could meaningfully advance reproducible benchmarking and SW-HW co-design for large-scale AI systems by enabling portable workload reproduction across independent tools. The open-source nature, MLCommons adoption, and broad industry engagement are concrete strengths that increase the likelihood of impact if the representation proves sufficiently accurate. However, the current lack of quantitative reproduction fidelity metrics and validation against non-deterministic production effects limits the assessed significance.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that ETs enable effective analysis, reproduction, and co-design across simulators rests on the representation of timing and resource constraints, yet the text provides no explicit mechanisms (e.g., stochastic timing distributions or feedback loops) for non-deterministic effects such as network jitter or collective algorithm selection. This is load-bearing because a purely static graph risks under-specifying contention at scale, directly affecting the asserted interoperability value.
  2. [Analysis and case studies] The analysis of production traces and real-world case studies section: no quantitative results, error bounds, or fidelity comparisons (e.g., simulated vs. measured runtime or bandwidth utilization) are reported. Without such data the utility claim for co-design remains plausible but unverified, weakening the soundness assessment.
minor comments (1)
  1. The ET schema and encoding details would benefit from an explicit table or figure early in the manuscript to aid readers in understanding the graph structure and attribute fields.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and detailed review. The comments on non-deterministic effects and quantitative fidelity metrics identify important opportunities to strengthen the presentation of Chakra's capabilities. We have revised the manuscript accordingly and address each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that ETs enable effective analysis, reproduction, and co-design across simulators rests on the representation of timing and resource constraints, yet the text provides no explicit mechanisms (e.g., stochastic timing distributions or feedback loops) for non-deterministic effects such as network jitter or collective algorithm selection. This is load-bearing because a purely static graph risks under-specifying contention at scale, directly affecting the asserted interoperability value.

    Authors: The Chakra ET is intentionally a faithful recording of an observed execution, so the included timing values and dependencies already embed the non-deterministic effects (including network jitter) that occurred during trace collection. The static graph structure is deliberate: it guarantees portability and interoperability across independent simulators, emulators, and replay tools. Different simulators are free to overlay stochastic timing distributions, feedback loops, or collective-selection models on top of the provided timings and constraints. We have revised the abstract and added a short clarifying paragraph in the ET specification section to make this extensibility explicit while preserving the core static representation. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Analysis and case studies] The analysis of production traces and real-world case studies section: no quantitative results, error bounds, or fidelity comparisons (e.g., simulated vs. measured runtime or bandwidth utilization) are reported. Without such data the utility claim for co-design remains plausible but unverified, weakening the soundness assessment.

    Authors: We agree that quantitative fidelity metrics would strengthen the soundness assessment. The original manuscript prioritized qualitative analysis and evidence of industry adoption. In the revised version we have added a dedicated subsection that reports simulated-versus-measured runtime differences, bandwidth utilization comparisons, and associated error bounds for representative workloads drawn from the production traces. These results were obtained by replaying Chakra ETs through available simulators and contrasting the outputs with direct cluster measurements. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: proposal of new ET format with no derivation chain

full rationale

The paper presents Chakra as a new open graph-based execution trace representation and supporting ecosystem for ML workload benchmarking and co-design. No equations, fitted parameters, predictions, or first-principles derivations are described that could reduce to self-defined inputs or self-citation chains. The central claims rest on the definition and adoption of the ET format itself, collection from production clusters, and case studies, all of which are independent of any prior author equations or fitted quantities. This is a standardization and tooling contribution rather than a closed mathematical derivation, so no circular steps exist.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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This is a systems and benchmarking paper whose contribution is the definition of a new trace format and tool ecosystem rather than mathematical derivations or fitted models. No free parameters appear in the abstract. The main invented element is the Chakra execution trace representation itself.

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  • Chakra execution trace (ET) no independent evidence
    purpose: Graph-based representation capturing compute, memory, communication operations, dependencies, timing, and resource constraints for distributed ML workloads
    New standardized format introduced to enable interoperability across tools and hardware; no independent falsifiable evidence provided in the abstract.

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