# HPU/ML/DL-Powered Profiling Specification (v0.4.0)

**Project:** Renacer
**Version:** 0.4.0
**Status:** Draft Specification
**Date:** 2025-11-17
**Milestone:** HPU/ML/DL Profiling Integration

---

## Executive Summary

Renacer v0.4.0 introduces a revolutionary approach to Rust profiling by combining:
- **HPU (High-Performance Unit) Acceleration**: SIMD/GPU via Trueno for 10-100x faster analysis
- **Machine Learning**: Unsupervised anomaly detection and pattern recognition
- **Deep Learning**: Neural network-based outlier detection and performance prediction
- **Explainable AI (XAI)**: SHAP/LIME explanations for all ML-driven insights
- **Causal Inference**: Root cause analysis via Granger causality (v0.5.0+)
- **Unique Insights**: Discoveries impossible with traditional CPU-bound profilers

This specification defines how Renacer will become the first system call tracer to leverage hardware acceleration, machine learning, and explainable AI for profiling insights, going beyond what tools like perf, flamegraph, or cargo-flamegraph can achieve.

---

## 1. Vision & Motivation

### 1.1 Current Profiling Landscape Limitations

**Traditional Profilers (perf, gprof, valgrind):**
- CPU-bound statistical sampling (~100Hz)
- High overhead (10-100x slowdown for valgrind)
- No automatic anomaly detection
- Manual interpretation required
- Limited to single-machine analysis

**Modern Profilers (cargo-flamegraph, pprof):**
- Better visualization but same sampling limitations
- No ML-based insights
- Cannot detect subtle performance regressions
- No cross-run correlation analysis

### 1.2 Renacer's Unique Advantages

**Existing Capabilities (v0.3.0):**
- ✅ Complete syscall traces (not just samples)
- ✅ DWARF source correlation (file:line attribution)
- ✅ Function-level profiling with stack unwinding
- ✅ Trueno SIMD integration (3-10x faster statistics)
- ✅ Real-time anomaly detection (sliding windows)
- ✅ Multi-process tracing

**New HPU/ML/DL Capabilities (v0.4.0):**
- 🎯 **HPU-Accelerated Analysis**: SIMD/GPU for 10-100x speedup on large traces
- 🎯 **Unsupervised Learning**: Automatic hotspot clustering without thresholds
- 🎯 **Deep Learning**: Neural network outlier detection (>99% precision)
- 🎯 **Cross-Run Correlation**: Detect regressions across git commits
- 🎯 **Predictive Analytics**: Forecast performance degradation
- 🎯 **Automatic Insight Generation**: AI-powered bottleneck identification

### 1.3 Research Foundation

This specification is grounded in 50 peer-reviewed publications spanning:
- Performance profiling and tracing (Section 8)
- Anomaly detection and machine learning (Section 9)
- Hardware acceleration for analytics (Section 10)
- System performance analysis (Section 11)
- Explainable AI (XAI) (Section 12)
- Causal inference and analysis (Section 13)
- Systems and HCI for developers (Section 14)

---

## 2. Core Objectives

### 2.1 Hotspot Detection Goals

**Code Hotspots** (Function-Level):
- Identify top N functions by cumulative time (existing)
- NEW: Cluster functions by performance characteristics using K-means
- NEW: Detect temporal patterns (functions hot during specific phases)
- NEW: Cross-function correlation analysis (A always slow when called by B)

**Tracing Hotspots** (Syscall-Level):
- Identify syscall bottlenecks (existing)
- NEW: Detect bursty behavior (periodic spikes)
- NEW: Identify pathological access patterns (sequential vs random I/O)
- NEW: Correlate syscall sequences (A → B → C always slow together)

**Binary Hotspots** (Address-Level):
- Map hot code to binary regions
- NEW: Detect cache-unfriendly access patterns
- NEW: Identify alignment issues via address analysis
- NEW: Correlate binary layout with performance

### 2.2 Call Frequency & Outlier Analysis

**Frequency Analysis:**
- Call count distribution (existing)
- NEW: Frequency-based clustering (rare vs common operations)
- NEW: Zipf's law validation (power-law distribution detection)
- NEW: Temporal frequency analysis (call rate over time)

**Outlier Detection:**
- Z-score based anomalies (existing - Sprint 20)
- NEW: Isolation Forest for multivariate outliers
- NEW: Autoencoder-based anomaly detection (deep learning)
- NEW: LSTM for temporal anomaly detection

### 2.3 Unique ML/DL-Powered Insights

**Insights Traditional Profilers Cannot Provide:**

1. **Automatic Performance Regression Detection**
   - Compare traces across git commits
   - ML-based regression classification (>90% accuracy target)
   - Identify guilty commits automatically

2. **Predictive Performance Modeling**
   - Neural network-based performance prediction
   - Forecast future degradation based on code changes
   - Recommend optimization priorities

3. **Unsupervised Bottleneck Discovery**
   - No manual threshold tuning required
   - Automatic clustering of performance characteristics
   - Discovers subtle patterns humans miss

4. **Cross-Process Performance Correlation**
   - Multi-process trace correlation via deep learning
   - Identify inter-process bottlenecks
   - Detect resource contention patterns

5. **Hardware-Accelerated Real-Time Analysis**
   - SIMD/GPU for <1ms latency profiling insights
   - Real-time dashboard with live ML predictions
   - Interactive exploration of 10M+ syscall traces

---

## 3. Technical Architecture

### 3.1 HPU Acceleration Layer (Trueno Integration)

**SIMD Operations (Existing):**
- Vector::mean(), Vector::stddev() (Sprint 19-20)
- Single-threaded SIMD (AVX2/AVX/SSE2/NEON)

**New HPU Capabilities:**
```rust
// GPU-accelerated matrix operations
use trueno::{Vector, Matrix, GPUBackend};

pub struct HPUProfiler {
    /// GPU backend for large-scale analysis
    gpu: Option<GPUBackend>,

    /// Batched syscall data for GPU processing
    syscall_matrix: Matrix<f32>,

    /// Feature vectors for ML (duration, frequency, temporal)
    features: Matrix<f32>,
}

impl HPUProfiler {
    /// Compute correlation matrix on GPU (10-100x faster)
    pub fn compute_correlation_matrix(&self) -> Matrix<f32> {
        // GPU-accelerated correlation: O(n²) → <1ms for n=10000
        self.gpu.correlate(&self.features)
    }

    /// K-means clustering on GPU
    pub fn cluster_hotspots(&self, k: usize) -> Vec<Cluster> {
        // SIMD/GPU K-means: 100x faster than CPU
        self.gpu.kmeans(&self.features, k)
    }

    /// PCA dimensionality reduction on GPU
    pub fn reduce_dimensions(&self, n_components: usize) -> Matrix<f32> {
        // GPU-accelerated PCA for visualization
        self.gpu.pca(&self.features, n_components)
    }
}
```

#### 3.1.1 Data Transfer Overhead & Adaptive Strategy

**The Reality of GPU Acceleration:**
GPU speedup promises (10-100x) hinge on overcoming CPU-to-GPU data transfer latency. A single `cudaMemcpy` can cost milliseconds, potentially nullifying sub-millisecond GPU computation benefits.

**Adaptive HPU Strategy:**
```rust
impl HPUProfiler {
    /// Adaptively choose backend based on trace size and profiling
    fn select_backend(trace_size: usize) -> BackendChoice {
        let transfer_cost_ms = estimate_transfer_cost(trace_size);
        let gpu_compute_ms = estimate_gpu_compute(trace_size);
        let cpu_compute_ms = estimate_cpu_simd_compute(trace_size);

        // Only offload to GPU if net benefit exists
        if (gpu_compute_ms + transfer_cost_ms) < cpu_compute_ms {
            BackendChoice::GPU
        } else {
            BackendChoice::CPUMultiThreadedSIMD
        }
    }

    /// Use pinned memory and async transfers for large traces
    fn async_gpu_transfer(&mut self, data: &[f32]) {
        // cudaMemcpyAsync to overlap transfer with computation
        unsafe {
            cuda_host_register(data.as_ptr(), data.len());
            cuda_memcpy_async(self.gpu_buffer, data, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
        }
    }
}
```

**Dynamic Threshold Tuning:**
- Trace size < 1000 syscalls: CPU SIMD (lower latency)
- Trace size 1000-10000: Profile on first run, cache decision
- Trace size > 10000: GPU acceleration (amortized benefit)

**Optimization Techniques:**
- Pinned memory allocation for zero-copy transfers
- Asynchronous transfers (`cudaMemcpyAsync`) overlapped with computation
- Batching multiple traces for GPU processing
```

### 3.2 Explainable AI (XAI) Integration (*Jidoka* - Automation with Human Touch)

**Motivation:**
ML-driven profilers risk becoming "black boxes." A flag that says "Anomaly detected" without explaining *why* provides limited value. We must build transparency (*Jidoka*) into every ML output.

**XAI Techniques for Renacer:**

#### 3.2.1 Isolation Forest Explainability

```rust
pub struct IsolationForestExplanation {
    /// Feature splits that isolated this point
    splits: Vec<FeatureSplit>,
    /// Depth at which isolation occurred (lower = more anomalous)
    isolation_depth: u32,
}

pub struct FeatureSplit {
    feature_name: String,  // e.g., "duration", "buffer_size"
    split_value: f32,       // e.g., 10.5 ms
    direction: SplitDirection,  // Above or Below
}

impl IsolationForest {
    /// Explain why a point was classified as an outlier
    pub fn explain(&self, point: &[f32]) -> IsolationForestExplanation {
        // Trace path through trees to find discriminating splits
        let mut splits = Vec::new();
        for tree in &self.trees {
            let path = tree.trace_path(point);
            splits.extend(path.critical_splits());
        }

        IsolationForestExplanation {
            splits: self.aggregate_critical_splits(splits),
            isolation_depth: self.compute_avg_depth(point),
        }
    }
}
```

**Output Example:**
```
Outlier Detected: write() syscall at src/main.rs:42
Explanation:
  - duration > 10.2 ms (baseline: 0.8 ± 0.3 ms)
  - buffer_size < 4096 bytes (expected: 8192+ bytes)
  - Isolated in 3.2 tree depths (avg: 8.5 for normal calls)
Recommendation: Check for small-buffer writes causing excessive syscalls
```

#### 3.2.2 Autoencoder/LSTM Explainability via SHAP

```rust
use shap::{KernelExplainer, TreeExplainer};

pub struct DeepLearningExplanation {
    /// SHAP values for each input feature
    shap_values: Vec<(String, f32)>,  // (feature_name, importance)
    /// Baseline reconstruction/prediction
    baseline: f32,
    /// Actual value
    actual: f32,
}

impl AutoencoderDetector {
    /// Explain high reconstruction error using SHAP
    pub fn explain_anomaly(&self, input: &[f32]) -> DeepLearningExplanation {
        let explainer = KernelExplainer::new(&self.model, &self.baseline_data);
        let shap_values = explainer.shap_values(input);

        // Sort by absolute SHAP value (most important features first)
        let mut feature_importance: Vec<_> = self.feature_names.iter()
            .zip(shap_values.iter())
            .map(|(name, &val)| (name.clone(), val))
            .collect();
        feature_importance.sort_by(|a, b| b.1.abs().partial_cmp(&a.1.abs()).unwrap());

        DeepLearningExplanation {
            shap_values: feature_importance,
            baseline: self.model.predict(&self.baseline_mean),
            actual: self.model.predict(input),
        }
    }
}
```

**Output Example:**
```
Temporal Anomaly Detected: Unexpected syscall sequence at src/io.rs:78
LSTM Prediction Error: 0.82 (threshold: 0.50)

SHAP Explanation (Top 3 Contributors):
  1. write_duration: +0.35 (unusually long write after fsync)
  2. inter_call_gap: +0.28 (200ms gap, expected <10ms)
  3. buffer_size: +0.19 (buffer size mismatch with historical pattern)

Actionable Insight:
  The fsync() at line 76 is causing downstream write() latency.
  Consider using O_DIRECT or buffering strategy changes.
```

#### 3.2.3 Source Code Linking

Every ML-generated insight MUST link back to source code via existing DWARF correlation:

```rust
pub struct MLInsight {
    /// ML explanation
    explanation: DeepLearningExplanation,
    /// Source location
    source_location: SourceLocation,  // file:line from DWARF
    /// Full stack trace
    stack_trace: Vec<StackFrame>,
}

impl MLProfiler {
    pub fn generate_actionable_insight(&self, anomaly: Anomaly) -> MLInsight {
        let explanation = self.model.explain_anomaly(&anomaly.features);
        let source_location = self.dwarf.lookup_address(anomaly.instruction_pointer);
        let stack_trace = self.stack_unwinder.unwind(anomaly.tid);

        MLInsight {
            explanation,
            source_location,
            stack_trace,
        }
    }
}
```

### 3.3 Causal Inference Layer (Future - v0.5.0+)

**From Correlation to Causation:**
ML excels at finding correlations, but developers need *root causes*. Function A being slow when B is slow might indicate a shared bottleneck (lock contention, shared resource), not a direct causal relationship.

**Causal Inference Techniques:**

```rust
/// Causal graph for performance relationships
pub struct CausalGraph {
    nodes: Vec<PerformanceNode>,  // Functions/syscalls
    edges: Vec<CausalEdge>,       // Directional relationships
}

pub struct CausalEdge {
    from: NodeId,
    to: NodeId,
    causal_strength: f32,  // 0.0 - 1.0 (from Granger causality)
    mechanism: CausalMechanism,
}

pub enum CausalMechanism {
    DirectCall,              // A calls B
    SharedResource(String),  // Both access mutex X
    DataDependency,          // A's output is B's input
    Unknown,
}

impl CausalInference {
    /// Use Granger causality to detect A → B relationships
    pub fn granger_causality_test(&self, time_series_a: &[f32], time_series_b: &[f32]) -> f32 {
        // Test if past values of A predict B better than B's own history
        let model_with_a = self.fit_autoregressive(time_series_b, Some(time_series_a));
        let model_without_a = self.fit_autoregressive(time_series_b, None);

        let f_statistic = self.f_test(model_with_a.residuals(), model_without_a.residuals());
        f_statistic  // Higher = stronger causal relationship
    }
}
```

**Output Example (Five Whys Applied):**
```
Root Cause Analysis: serde::deserialize slowdown

Why is serde::deserialize slow?
  → High latency detected (50ms, baseline: 2ms)

Why the high latency?
  → Causal analysis shows strong dependency on std::fs::read (G-causality: 0.89)

Why does std::fs::read cause this?
  → Granger test: std::fs::read latency predicts serde latency with 89% confidence
  → Direct data dependency detected (read → parse)

Why is std::fs::read slow?
  → Analysis shows correlation with disk I/O wait (iowait > 30%)

Likely Root Cause:
  Disk I/O contention causing std::fs::read delays, which cascade to serde::deserialize.

Recommendation:
  1. Profile disk I/O patterns (use renacer -e trace=file)
  2. Consider async I/O or read-ahead buffering
  3. Check for concurrent disk access (use renacer -f for multi-process view)
```

### 3.4 Machine Learning Layer

**Unsupervised Learning Algorithms:**

1. **K-Means Clustering** (SIMD-accelerated)
   - Cluster functions/syscalls by performance profile
   - Automatic elbow method for k selection
   - Reference: [1] Hamerly & Drake, 2015

2. **DBSCAN** (Density-Based Clustering)
   - Discover arbitrary-shaped hotspot regions
   - Noise/outlier identification
   - Reference: [2] Ester et al., 1996

3. **Isolation Forest** (Anomaly Detection)
   - Multivariate outlier detection
   - O(n log n) complexity
   - Reference: [3] Liu et al., 2008

4. **Principal Component Analysis** (Dimensionality Reduction)
   - Reduce feature space for visualization
   - GPU-accelerated eigenvalue decomposition
   - Reference: [4] Jolliffe & Cadima, 2016

**Implementation:**
```rust
pub struct MLProfiler {
    /// Trained isolation forest for outlier detection
    isolation_forest: IsolationForest,

    /// K-means clusterer for hotspot grouping
    kmeans: KMeans,

    /// PCA for visualization
    pca: PCA,
}

impl MLProfiler {
    /// Detect outliers using Isolation Forest
    pub fn detect_outliers(&self, traces: &[Trace]) -> Vec<Outlier> {
        let features = self.extract_features(traces);
        self.isolation_forest.predict(&features)
    }

    /// Cluster similar performance patterns
    pub fn cluster_patterns(&self, traces: &[Trace]) -> Vec<Cluster> {
        let features = self.extract_features(traces);
        self.kmeans.fit_predict(&features)
    }
}
```

### 3.5 Deep Learning Layer

**Neural Network Architectures:**

1. **Autoencoder** (Unsupervised Anomaly Detection)
   - Compress normal behavior to latent space
   - High reconstruction error → anomaly
   - Reference: [5] Sakurada & Yairi, 2014

2. **LSTM** (Temporal Anomaly Detection)
   - Detect unusual temporal patterns
   - Sequence-to-sequence prediction
   - Reference: [6] Malhotra et al., 2015

3. **Graph Neural Network** (Call Graph Analysis)
   - Model function call relationships
   - Identify critical paths
   - Reference: [7] Scarselli et al., 2009

**Implementation:**
```rust
pub struct DLProfiler {
    /// Autoencoder for anomaly detection
    autoencoder: Autoencoder,

    /// LSTM for temporal pattern detection
    lstm: LSTM,

    /// GNN for call graph analysis
    gnn: GraphNN,
}

impl DLProfiler {
    /// Detect anomalies via autoencoder reconstruction error
    pub fn detect_deep_anomalies(&self, traces: &[Trace]) -> Vec<DeepAnomaly> {
        let features = self.extract_features(traces);
        let reconstructed = self.autoencoder.reconstruct(&features);
        let errors = features.mse(&reconstructed);
        errors.filter(|&e| e > self.threshold)
    }

    /// Predict future performance using LSTM
    pub fn predict_performance(&self, history: &[Trace]) -> f32 {
        let sequence = self.prepare_sequence(history);
        self.lstm.predict(&sequence)
    }
}
```

### 3.6 Integration with Existing Renacer Features

**Leverage Existing Infrastructure:**

```rust
// Extend existing TracerConfig for v0.4.0
pub struct TracerConfig {
    // ... existing fields ...

    // Sprint 21: HPU/ML/DL Profiling
    pub enable_hpu_profiling: bool,           // Enable GPU acceleration
    pub enable_ml_clustering: bool,           // K-means/DBSCAN clustering
    pub enable_dl_anomalies: bool,            // Deep learning outliers
    pub ml_model_path: Option<PathBuf>,       // Pre-trained model
    pub hpu_batch_size: usize,                // GPU batch size
}

// Extend existing Tracer with HPU/ML/DL
struct Tracers {
    // ... existing fields ...

    hpu_profiler: Option<HPUProfiler>,        // GPU-accelerated analysis
    ml_profiler: Option<MLProfiler>,          // Unsupervised learning
    dl_profiler: Option<DLProfiler>,          // Deep learning
}
```

---

## 4. Feature Specifications

### 4.1 HPU-Accelerated Hotspot Analysis

**Feature:** GPU-accelerated correlation matrix for function relationships

**Input:**
- Syscall traces with function attribution (existing)
- Timing data (existing)

**Processing:**
1. Extract feature vectors: [duration, frequency, temporal_position, ...]
2. Compute correlation matrix on GPU (10-100x faster than CPU)
3. Identify highly correlated function pairs
4. Cluster correlated functions using K-means

**Output:**
```
=== HPU Hotspot Analysis (GPU-Accelerated) ===

Function Correlation Heatmap:
  main::process_file    1.00  0.87  0.23
  std::fs::read         0.87  1.00  0.19
  serde::deserialize    0.23  0.19  1.00

Hotspot Clusters (K=3):
  Cluster 1 (I/O-heavy): main::process_file, std::fs::read (43% total time)
  Cluster 2 (CPU-heavy): serde::deserialize, json::parse (32% total time)
  Cluster 3 (Mixed): async::runtime::block_on (25% total time)

Recommendations:
  🔴 Optimize Cluster 1 (I/O): Consider async I/O or buffering
  🟡 Optimize Cluster 2 (CPU): Profile serde deserialization
```

**CLI:**
```bash
renacer --hpu-analysis --function-time --source -- cargo test
```

### 4.2 ML-Based Outlier Detection

**Feature:** Isolation Forest for multivariate outlier detection

**Input:**
- Syscall traces with multiple features:
  - Duration (μs)
  - Frequency (calls/sec)
  - Argument values (file descriptors, buffer sizes)
  - Temporal position (timestamp)

**Processing:**
1. Extract feature matrix (n_samples × n_features)
2. Train Isolation Forest (or load pre-trained model)
3. Compute anomaly scores for each sample
4. Rank outliers by score

**Output:**
```
=== ML Outlier Detection (Isolation Forest) ===

Detected 12 outliers (anomaly score > 0.6):

Top Outliers:
  1. write(fd=3, buf=..., size=8192) - 0.87 score
     Duration: 45ms (expected: 2ms based on cluster)
     Frequency: 1/sec (expected: 100/sec)
     → Likely disk I/O contention

  2. read(fd=5, buf=..., size=4096) - 0.79 score
     Duration: 32ms (expected: 1ms)
     Frequency: Bursty (10 calls in 100ms window)
     → Possible cache miss pattern

Cluster Analysis:
  Normal I/O operations: 98.5% of samples (μ=1.2ms, σ=0.3ms)
  Outlier I/O operations: 1.5% of samples (μ=38ms, σ=12ms)
```

**CLI:**
```bash
renacer --ml-outliers --ml-model models/rust-io.model -- ./myapp
```

### 4.3 Deep Learning Temporal Anomaly Detection

**Feature:** LSTM-based temporal pattern analysis

**Input:**
- Time-series trace data (sequences of syscalls)
- Historical traces for training (optional)

**Processing:**
1. Prepare sequences (sliding window over trace)
2. Train LSTM on normal behavior (or load pre-trained)
3. Predict next syscall/duration
4. Flag high prediction errors as anomalies

**Output:**
```
=== DL Temporal Anomaly Detection (LSTM) ===

Predicted Performance: 2.3s (actual: 4.1s) - 78% slowdown detected

Temporal Anomalies (prediction error > 2σ):

  Timestamp    Syscall         Predicted    Actual    Error    Context
  ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  0.234s       write(fd=3)     1.2ms        15ms      13.8ms   After fsync
  0.456s       read(fd=5)      0.8ms        22ms      21.2ms   Cache miss?
  1.123s       openat(...)     0.5ms        8ms       7.5ms    Slow disk

Pattern Analysis:
  Normal I/O pattern: [open → read × 10 → close] (avg 12ms)
  Anomalous pattern: [open → fsync → read × 10 → close] (avg 89ms)
  → fsync causing unexpected latency (possibly SSD wear leveling)

Recommendation: Remove unnecessary fsync() calls or use O_DIRECT
```

**CLI:**
```bash
renacer --dl-temporal --lstm-model models/temporal.pt -- cargo bench
```

### 4.4 Cross-Run Regression Detection

**Feature:** Automatic performance regression detection across git commits

**Input:**
- Multiple trace files (one per commit)
- Git commit metadata

**Processing:**
1. Extract performance features from each trace
2. Train binary classifier (regression vs no-regression)
3. Compare current trace against baseline
4. Identify guilty commits using bisection

**Output:**
```
=== Cross-Run Regression Analysis ===

Baseline: commit abc123 (main branch, 7 days ago)
Current:  commit def456 (feature/optimization, today)

Performance Regression Detected: 87% confidence

Regression Details:
  Total time: 2.3s → 4.1s (+78% slowdown) 🔴
  Syscall count: 1234 → 1456 (+18%)
  Hotspot changes:
    - serde::deserialize: 0.8s → 1.9s (+137%) 🔴
    - std::fs::read: 0.5s → 0.6s (+20%)
    - main::process: 0.4s → 0.3s (-25%) 🟢

Likely Guilty Commit: commit bcd234
  Message: "refactor: switch to different JSON library"
  Files changed: src/parser.rs, Cargo.toml

ML Confidence Breakdown:
  Feature importance:
    - Duration change: 0.45
    - Frequency change: 0.28
    - Call graph change: 0.18
    - Argument distribution: 0.09
```

**CLI:**
```bash
# Compare two traces
renacer --compare baseline.trace current.trace

# Automatic git bisection
renacer --git-bisect main..HEAD --threshold 10%
```

### 4.5 Predictive Performance Analytics

**Feature:** Neural network-based performance forecasting

**Input:**
- Historical performance data (multiple traces over time)
- Code metrics (LOC, complexity, dependencies)

**Processing:**
1. Train regression model (Random Forest or NN)
2. Extract features from current codebase
3. Predict future performance
4. Identify high-risk areas

**Output:**
```
=== Predictive Performance Analysis ===

Current Performance: 2.3s (measured)
Predicted Performance (next release): 3.1s ± 0.4s (34% slowdown)

Risk Factors:
  🔴 High Risk (>50% probability of slowdown):
    - src/parser.rs: 127 LOC added, complexity +12
      Predicted impact: +0.5s (main::parse_config)

  🟡 Medium Risk (20-50% probability):
    - src/network.rs: async runtime change
      Predicted impact: +0.2s (uncertainty: high)

Recommendations:
  1. Profile src/parser.rs before merge (predicted hotspot)
  2. Add performance regression tests for parse_config
  3. Consider caching parsed configs (estimated -0.3s)

Historical Trend:
  Last 10 commits: avg +5% per commit
  Projected 6-month performance: 150% of current (extrapolated)
  → Consider performance sprint
```

**CLI:**
```bash
renacer --predict --history traces/ --codebase .
```

### 4.6 "Pit of Success" UX Design (*Respect for People*)

**Problem:** The number of CLI flags (`--hpu-analysis`, `--ml-outliers`, `--dl-temporal`, etc.) creates a high barrier to entry.

**Solution:** Smart defaults with progressive disclosure.

#### 4.6.1 Default "Auto" Mode

```bash
# Simple default: auto-detect best analysis
renacer -- cargo test

# Output:
#   [Auto Mode] Detected 1,234 syscalls, enabling Isolation Forest analysis
#
#   === Performance Summary ===
#   Total time: 2.3s
#   Hot functions: 3 identified
#
#   🔍 7 outliers detected (Isolation Forest, confidence: 0.95)
#
#   Top Outlier:
#     write() at src/main.rs:42 took 15.2ms (10x baseline)
#     Reason: Small buffer size (512 bytes) causing excessive syscalls
#
#   💡 Tip: For deeper temporal analysis, re-run with --analysis-deep
```

#### 4.6.2 Progressive Disclosure

```bash
# Level 1: Default (Isolation Forest, fast)
renacer -- ./app

# Level 2: Extended (add LSTM temporal analysis)
renacer --analysis-deep -- ./app

# Level 3: Full ML/DL (Autoencoder + cross-run + predictions)
renacer --analysis-full -- ./app

# Expert mode: Manual control
renacer --ml-outliers --ml-model=custom.model --hpu-cpu-only -- ./app
```

#### 4.6.3 Smart Recommendations

```rust
impl SmartRecommendations {
    pub fn suggest_next_steps(&self, trace_stats: &TraceStats) -> Vec<Recommendation> {
        let mut recommendations = Vec::new();

        // Suggest deeper analysis if outliers found
        if trace_stats.outliers > 5 {
            recommendations.push(Recommendation {
                message: "7 outliers detected. For temporal pattern analysis, re-run with --analysis-deep".into(),
                command: format!("renacer --analysis-deep -- {}", trace_stats.command),
                priority: Priority::Medium,
            });
        }

        // Suggest cross-run analysis if multiple traces exist
        if self.has_historical_traces() {
            recommendations.push(Recommendation {
                message: "Historical traces found. Compare performance with --compare".into(),
                command: format!("renacer --compare HEAD~5..HEAD -- {}", trace_stats.command),
                priority: Priority::Low,
            });
        }

        recommendations
    }
}
```

---

## 5. Implementation Roadmap (Updated with Realistic Estimates)

### Sprint 21: HPU Acceleration Foundation (3-4 weeks)
**Goal:** GPU backend with adaptive strategy and data transfer optimization

**Week 1-2: Core Infrastructure**
- wgpu integration for portable GPU support
- Matrix operations (correlation, K-means)
- CPU multi-threaded SIMD fallback
- Adaptive backend selection logic

**Week 3: Performance Optimization**
- Pinned memory allocation
- Asynchronous data transfers
- Dynamic threshold tuning
- Benchmarking GPU vs CPU trade-offs

**Week 4: Testing & Refinement**
- Integration tests (13+ tests from RED phase)
- Performance validation (10x+ speedup requirement)
- Edge case handling
- Documentation

**Deliverables:**
- ✅ HPUProfiler module with GPU/CPU adaptive backend
- ✅ Correlation matrix computation (10x+ faster on large traces)
- ✅ K-means clustering on GPU
- ✅ CLI: --hpu-analysis, --hpu-cpu-only flags

**Risk:** GPU data transfer overhead mitigation is critical - requires careful profiling

---

### Sprint 22: ML Outlier Detection with XAI (3-4 weeks)
**Goal:** Isolation Forest with SHAP-based explainability

**Week 1-2: Isolation Forest Implementation**
- Rust implementation of Isolation Forest (or bindings to existing library)
- Feature engineering (duration, frequency, buffer size, temporal features)
- Integration with existing anomaly detection (Sprint 20)

**Week 2-3: Explainability Layer**
- Path tracing through Isolation Forest trees
- Critical split aggregation
- Feature importance ranking
- SHAP value computation (if using pre-trained models)

**Week 3-4: Source Code Integration**
- DWARF correlation for all ML insights
- Stack trace linking
- Actionable recommendations generation
- User testing and feedback

**Deliverables:**
- ✅ Isolation Forest module with XAI explanations
- ✅ CLI: --ml-outliers, --explain flags
- ✅ Source code linking for all insights
- ✅ JSON export with ML metadata

**Risk:** Start simple, perfect one model before adding complexity

---

### Sprint 23: Deep Learning - Incremental Approach (4-5 weeks)
**Goal:** Start with Autoencoder (simpler), defer LSTM to v0.5.0 if needed

**Week 1-2: Research & Model Selection**
- Evaluate Autoencoder vs LSTM trade-offs
- Prototype on synthetic Rust application traces
- Validate generalization on diverse workloads

**Week 2-4: Autoencoder Implementation (if validated)**
- PyTorch/TensorFlow model training
- Rust inference via tract or candle
- SHAP integration for explainability
- Reconstruction error threshold tuning

**Week 4-5: Production Integration**
- Model packaging and versioning
- Online learning (optional)
- Performance optimization
- Documentation and examples

**Deliverables:**
- ✅ Autoencoder-based anomaly detection (if validated)
- ⚠️ LSTM deferred to v0.5.0 based on Autoencoder learnings
- ✅ XAI explanations for deep learning insights
- ✅ Model management infrastructure

**Risk:** Deep learning might be overkill for many use cases - validate necessity first

---

### Sprint 24: Cross-Run Analysis & Benchmarking (3 weeks)
**Goal:** Git bisection, regression detection, public benchmark suite

**Week 1-2: Cross-Run Infrastructure**
- Trace comparison engine
- Git integration for bisection
- Regression classification (ML-based)
- Automatic guilty commit identification

**Week 2-3: Benchmark Suite**
- Curate diverse Rust projects (I/O-bound, CPU-bound, mixed)
- Create public benchmark dataset (similar to PARSEC)
- Measure generalization metrics
- Publish baseline results

**Deliverables:**
- ✅ CLI: --compare, --git-bisect flags
- ✅ Public Rust performance benchmark suite
- ✅ Generalization metrics published
- ✅ Regression detection (>90% accuracy target, adjusted from 95%)

---

### Sprint 25: Predictive Analytics & UX Polish (3 weeks)
**Goal:** "Pit of Success" UX, smart defaults, predictive models

**Week 1-2: Predictive Modeling**
- Neural network for performance forecasting
- Risk factor identification
- Historical trend analysis

**Week 2-3: UX Overhaul**
- Auto mode with smart defaults
- Progressive disclosure (--analysis-deep, --analysis-full)
- Smart recommendations engine
- Interactive report generation

**Deliverables:**
- ✅ CLI: renacer -- ./app (auto mode)
- ✅ --analysis-deep, --analysis-full flags
- ✅ Smart recommendations
- ✅ v0.4.0 release

**Total Duration:** 16-19 weeks (4-5 months)
**Previous Estimate:** 12 weeks (unrealistic for R&D features)

---

## 6. Data Pipeline & Feature Engineering

### 6.1 Feature Extraction

**Trace-Level Features:**
```rust
pub struct TraceFeatures {
    // Basic statistics
    pub total_duration: f32,
    pub syscall_count: usize,
    pub unique_syscalls: usize,
    pub error_count: usize,

    // Timing features
    pub duration_mean: f32,
    pub duration_std: f32,
    pub duration_p50: f32,
    pub duration_p95: f32,
    pub duration_p99: f32,

    // Frequency features
    pub calls_per_second: f32,
    pub peak_call_rate: f32,
    pub burstiness: f32,         // Coefficient of variation

    // Spatial features
    pub io_read_bytes: u64,
    pub io_write_bytes: u64,
    pub memory_allocations: usize,

    // Temporal features
    pub phase_changes: usize,    // Detected phase transitions
    pub periodicity: f32,        // Dominant frequency (FFT)

    // Graph features
    pub call_graph_depth: usize,
    pub call_graph_width: usize,
    pub critical_path_length: f32,
}
```

**Syscall-Level Features:**
```rust
pub struct SyscallFeatures {
    pub name: String,
    pub duration: f32,
    pub frequency: f32,
    pub timestamp: f32,

    // Context features
    pub function_name: Option<String>,
    pub source_location: Option<String>,
    pub stack_depth: usize,

    // Argument features
    pub fd: Option<i32>,
    pub buffer_size: Option<usize>,
    pub flags: Option<i32>,

    // Derived features
    pub is_io: bool,
    pub is_network: bool,
    pub is_memory: bool,
    pub error_occurred: bool,
}
```

### 6.2 Data Preprocessing

**Normalization:**
```rust
// Z-score normalization for ML
pub fn normalize_features(features: &mut [f32]) {
    let mean = features.iter().sum::<f32>() / features.len() as f32;
    let std = features.iter()
        .map(|&x| (x - mean).powi(2))
        .sum::<f32>()
        .sqrt() / features.len() as f32;

    for x in features.iter_mut() {
        *x = (*x - mean) / std;
    }
}
```

**Dimensionality Reduction:**
```rust
// PCA for visualization (reduce to 2D/3D)
pub fn reduce_dimensions(features: Matrix<f32>, n_components: usize) -> Matrix<f32> {
    let pca = PCA::new(n_components);
    pca.fit_transform(&features)
}
```

### 6.3 Training Data Collection

**Offline Training:**
1. Collect traces from representative workloads
2. Label traces (normal vs anomalous, fast vs slow)
3. Split into train/validation/test (70/15/15)
4. Train models with cross-validation
5. Save trained models to `models/` directory

**Online Learning:**
1. Start with pre-trained model
2. Collect user traces (opt-in telemetry)
3. Periodically retrain with new data
4. Federated learning (preserve privacy)

---

## 7. Performance & Scalability

### 7.1 HPU Performance Targets

**GPU Acceleration:**
- Correlation matrix (10K × 10K): <100ms (vs 10s CPU)
- K-means (10K samples, k=10): <50ms (vs 5s CPU)
- PCA (10K × 100 features): <20ms (vs 2s CPU)

**SIMD Acceleration:**
- Vector operations: 4-8x speedup (AVX2)
- Feature extraction: 2-4x speedup
- Normalization: 4-8x speedup

### 7.2 Memory Management

**Large Trace Handling:**
- Streaming processing for traces >1GB
- Chunked GPU transfers (batch_size=1000)
- Memory-mapped files for replay analysis

**Model Storage:**
- Compressed models (<10MB per model)
- Lazy loading (load on demand)
- Model caching (LRU cache, max 5 models)

### 7.3 Scalability Targets

**Trace Size:**
- 10M syscalls: <1min analysis (GPU)
- 100M syscalls: <10min analysis (GPU + streaming)
- 1B syscalls: <2hr analysis (distributed GPU)

**Concurrent Users:**
- Single-user mode: real-time analysis
- Multi-user mode: batch queue (10 users)
- Cloud deployment: auto-scaling (100+ users)

---

## 8. Academic Foundations - Performance Profiling

### [1] Hamerly, G., & Drake, J. (2015)
**Title:** "Accelerating Lloyd's Algorithm for k-Means Clustering"
**Publication:** Partitioning Around Medoids (Springer)
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09259-1_2
**Relevance:** K-means optimization for hotspot clustering (10x faster than standard)

### [2] Ester, M., Kriegel, H. P., Sander, J., & Xu, X. (1996)
**Title:** "A Density-Based Algorithm for Discovering Clusters in Large Spatial Databases with Noise"
**Publication:** KDD-96 Proceedings
**URL:** https://www.aaai.org/Papers/KDD/1996/KDD96-037.pdf
**Relevance:** DBSCAN for arbitrary-shaped hotspot discovery

### [3] Mytkowicz, T., Diwan, A., Hauswirth, M., & Sweeney, P. F. (2009)
**Title:** "Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong!"
**Publication:** ASPLOS '09
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/1508244.1508275
**Relevance:** Measurement bias in performance profiling (critical for ML accuracy)

### [4] Tallent, N. R., & Mellor-Crummey, J. M. (2009)
**Title:** "Effective Performance Measurement and Analysis of Multithreaded Applications"
**Publication:** PPoPP '09
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/1504176.1504202
**Relevance:** Multi-threaded profiling methodology (extends to multi-process)

### [5] Hauswirth, M., Diwan, A., Sweeney, P. F., & Mozer, M. C. (2005)
**Title:** "Automating Vertical Profiling"
**Publication:** OOPSLA '05
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/1094811.1094843
**Relevance:** Automatic profiling without manual intervention (ML integration)

### [6] Graham, S. L., Kessler, P. B., & McKusick, M. K. (1982)
**Title:** "gprof: A Call Graph Execution Profiler"
**Publication:** SIGPLAN '82
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/872726.806987
**Relevance:** Foundational call graph profiling (baseline for comparison)

---

## 9. Academic Foundations - Anomaly Detection & ML

### [7] Liu, F. T., Ting, K. M., & Zhou, Z. H. (2008)
**Title:** "Isolation Forest"
**Publication:** ICDM '08
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2008.17
**Relevance:** Isolation Forest algorithm for outlier detection (core ML technique)

### [8] Sakurada, M., & Yairi, T. (2014)
**Title:** "Anomaly Detection Using Autoencoders with Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction"
**Publication:** MLSDA '14
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/2689746.2689747
**Relevance:** Autoencoder-based anomaly detection for performance traces

### [9] Malhotra, P., Vig, L., Shroff, G., & Agarwal, P. (2015)
**Title:** "Long Short Term Memory Networks for Anomaly Detection in Time Series"
**Publication:** ESANN '15
**URL:** https://www.elen.ucl.ac.be/Proceedings/esann/esannpdf/es2015-56.pdf
**Relevance:** LSTM for temporal anomaly detection in syscall sequences

### [10] Chandola, V., Banerjee, A., & Kumar, V. (2009)
**Title:** "Anomaly Detection: A Survey"
**Publication:** ACM Computing Surveys
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/1541880.1541882
**Relevance:** Comprehensive survey of anomaly detection techniques

### [11] Goldstein, M., & Uchida, S. (2016)
**Title:** "A Comparative Evaluation of Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Algorithms for Multivariate Data"
**Publication:** PLoS ONE
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152173
**Relevance:** Benchmarking unsupervised methods (guides algorithm selection)

### [12] Schölkopf, B., Platt, J. C., Shawe-Taylor, J., Smola, A. J., & Williamson, R. C. (2001)
**Title:** "Estimating the Support of a High-Dimensional Distribution"
**Publication:** Neural Computation
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1162/089976601750264965
**Relevance:** One-class SVM for novelty detection (alternative to Isolation Forest)

---

## 10. Academic Foundations - Hardware Acceleration

### [13] Krizhevsky, A., Sutskever, I., & Hinton, G. E. (2012)
**Title:** "ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks"
**Publication:** NIPS '12
**URL:** https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2012/file/c399862d3b9d6b76c8436e924a68c45b-Paper.pdf
**Relevance:** GPU acceleration for deep learning (AlexNet, foundational work)

### [14] He, B., Yang, K., Fang, R., Lu, M., Govindaraju, N., Luo, Q., & Sander, P. (2008)
**Title:** "Relational Joins on Graphics Processors"
**Publication:** SIGMOD '08
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/1376616.1376670
**Relevance:** GPU acceleration for database operations (extends to trace analysis)

### [15] Fowers, J., Brown, G., Cooke, P., & Stitt, G. (2012)
**Title:** "A Performance and Energy Comparison of FPGAs, GPUs, and Multicores for Sliding-Window Applications"
**Publication:** FPGA '12
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/2145694.2145704
**Relevance:** Hardware acceleration trade-offs (GPU vs FPGA for sliding windows)

### [16] Jia, Y., Shelhamer, E., Donahue, J., Karayev, S., Long, J., Girshick, R., ... & Darrell, T. (2014)
**Title:** "Caffe: Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Embedding"
**Publication:** ACM Multimedia '14
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/2647868.2654889
**Relevance:** Deep learning framework design (applicable to profiling NN)

### [17] Abadi, M., Barham, P., Chen, J., Chen, Z., Davis, A., Dean, J., ... & Zheng, X. (2016)
**Title:** "TensorFlow: A System for Large-Scale Machine Learning"
**Publication:** OSDI '16
**URL:** https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/abadi
**Relevance:** Distributed ML system design (future Renacer cloud deployment)

---

## 11. Academic Foundations - System Performance Analysis

### [18] Dean, J., & Barroso, L. A. (2013)
**Title:** "The Tail at Scale"
**Publication:** Communications of the ACM
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/2408776.2408794
**Relevance:** Long-tail latency analysis (critical for outlier detection)

### [19] Gregg, B. (2013)
**Title:** "Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud"
**Publication:** Prentice Hall (Book)
**URL:** http://www.brendangregg.com/systems-performance-2nd-edition-book.html
**Relevance:** Comprehensive system performance methodology (industry standard)

### [20] Cantrill, B. M., Shapiro, M. W., & Leventhal, A. H. (2004)
**Title:** "Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems"
**Publication:** USENIX ATC '04
**URL:** https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix04/tech/general/full_papers/cantrill/cantrill.pdf
**Relevance:** DTrace design (inspiration for low-overhead tracing)

### [21] Ousterhout, J. (1990)
**Title:** "Why Aren't Operating Systems Getting Faster As Fast as Hardware?"
**Publication:** USENIX Summer '90
**URL:** https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1267569.1267572
**Relevance:** OS bottleneck analysis (motivates syscall-level profiling)

### [22] Bienia, C., Kumar, S., Singh, J. P., & Li, K. (2008)
**Title:** "The PARSEC Benchmark Suite: Characterization and Architectural Implications"
**Publication:** PACT '08
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/1454115.1454128
**Relevance:** Performance benchmark methodology (training data generation)

---

## 12. Academic Foundations - Explainable AI (XAI)

### [26] Ribeiro, M. T., Singh, S., & Guestrin, C. (2016)
**Title:** "'Why Should I Trust You?': Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier"
**Publication:** KDD '16
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/2939672.2939778
**Relevance:** LIME technique for local model interpretability (ML explainability)

### [27] Lundberg, S. M., & Lee, S. I. (2017)
**Title:** "A Unified Approach to Interpreting Model Predictions"
**Publication:** NIPS '17
**URL:** https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/file/8a20a8621978632d76c43dfd28b67767-Paper.pdf
**Relevance:** SHAP values for feature importance (core XAI technique)

### [28] Molnar, C. (2020)
**Title:** "Interpretable Machine Learning: A Guide for Making Black Box Models Explainable"
**Publication:** christophm.github.io/interpretable-ml-book/
**URL:** https://christophm.github.io/interpretable-ml-book/
**Relevance:** Comprehensive XAI techniques guide (reference for implementation)

### [29] Adadi, A., & Berrada, M. (2018)
**Title:** "Peeking Inside the Black-Box: A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)"
**Publication:** IEEE Access
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2870052
**Relevance:** XAI survey covering multiple techniques (design guidance)

---

## 13. Academic Foundations - Causal Inference & Analysis

### [30] Pearl, J. (2009)
**Title:** "Causal Inference in Statistics: An Overview"
**Publication:** Statistics Surveys
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1214/09-SS057
**Relevance:** Foundational causal inference theory (from correlation to causation)

### [31] Peters, J., Janzing, D., & Schölkopf, B. (2017)
**Title:** "Elements of Causal Inference: Foundations and Learning Algorithms"
**Publication:** MIT Press
**URL:** https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/elements-causal-inference
**Relevance:** Causal learning algorithms (practical implementation guide)

### [32] Granger, C. W. J. (1969)
**Title:** "Investigating Causal Relations by Econometric Models and Cross-spectral Methods"
**Publication:** Econometrica
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.2307/1912791
**Relevance:** Granger causality test for time series (applicable to syscall sequences)

### [33] Spirtes, P., Glymour, C., & Scheines, R. (2000)
**Title:** "Causation, Prediction, and Search"
**Publication:** MIT Press
**URL:** https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/causation-prediction-and-search
**Relevance:** Causal structure learning algorithms (for building causal graphs)

### [34] Laan, M. J. V. D., & Rose, S. (2011)
**Title:** "Targeted Learning: Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Data"
**Publication:** Springer
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9782-1
**Relevance:** Causal inference from observational data (trace analysis context)

---

## 14. Academic Foundations - Systems & HCI for Developers

### [35] Mao, H., Schwarzkopf, M., Venkatakrishnan, S. B., Meng, Z., & Alizadeh, M. (2019)
**Title:** "Learning Scheduling Algorithms for Data Processing Clusters"
**Publication:** SIGCOMM '19
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/3341302.3342080
**Relevance:** Integrating ML into systems (design patterns for Renacer)

### [36] Cohen, J., Lin, Y., & Kelly, P. H. (1998)
**Title:** "An Empirical Study of Run-Time Monitoring for the C Programming Language"
**Publication:** Software: Practice and Experience
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199807)28:7<735::AID-SPE177>3.0.CO;2-M
**Relevance:** Runtime monitoring best practices (low-overhead tracing)

### [37] Pankratius, V., Schmidt, F., & Garrigos, G. (2012)
**Title:** "Combining Functional and Imperative Programming for Multicore Software"
**Publication:** IEEE Software
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2011.109
**Relevance:** Hybrid programming models for performance tools

### [38] Karim, F., Majumdar, S., Darabi, H., & Chen, S. (2019)
**Title:** "Multivariate LSTM-FCNs for Time Series Classification"
**Publication:** Neural Networks
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2019.04.014
**Relevance:** LSTM architectures for multivariate time series (syscall sequences)

### [39] Breiman, L. (2001)
**Title:** "Random Forests"
**Publication:** Machine Learning
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010933404324
**Relevance:** Simpler alternative to neural networks for regression/classification

### [40] Zaharia, M., Chowdhury, M., Franklin, M. J., Shenker, S., & Stoica, I. (2010)
**Title:** "Spark: Cluster Computing with Working Sets"
**Publication:** HotCloud '10
**URL:** https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud-10/spark-cluster-computing-working-sets
**Relevance:** Efficient data pipelines for large-scale analysis (future cloud Renacer)

### [41] Mirgorodskiy, A. V., Miller, B. P., et al. (2006)
**Title:** "Performance Measurement and Analysis of Parallel Applications on the Grid"
**Publication:** IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2006.88
**Relevance:** Distributed performance analysis techniques

### [42] Adhianto, L., Banerjee, S., Fagan, M., Krentel, M., et al. (2010)
**Title:** "HPCToolkit: Tools for Performance Analysis of Optimized Parallel Programs"
**Publication:** Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.1553
**Relevance:** Existing profiling tool architecture (lessons learned)

### [43] Bar-Joseph, Z., Gerber, G., Gifford, D. K., Jaakkola, T. S., & Simon, I. (2002)
**Title:** "A New Approach to Analyzing Gene Expression Time Series Data"
**Publication:** RECOMB '02
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/565196.565202
**Relevance:** Clustering time-series data techniques (applicable to syscall traces)

### [44] Pimentel, M. A., Clifton, D. A., Clifton, L., & Tarassenko, L. (2014)
**Title:** "A Review of Novelty Detection"
**Publication:** Signal Processing
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sigpro.2013.12.026
**Relevance:** Novelty detection survey (outlier detection techniques)

### [45] Begel, A., & Zimmermann, T. (2014)
**Title:** "Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering"
**Publication:** ICSE '14
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/2568225.2568233
**Relevance:** Research questions for data-driven SE tools (user needs analysis)

### [46] Huck, K. A., & Malony, A. D. (2005)
**Title:** "PerfExplorer: A Performance Data Mining Framework For Large-Scale Parallel Applications"
**Publication:** SC '05
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1109/SC.2005.28
**Relevance:** Performance data mining techniques (pattern discovery)

### [47] Murphy, B., Bird, C., Zimmermann, T., Williams, L., et al. (2013)
**Title:** "Have Agile Techniques been the Silver Bullet for Software Development at Microsoft?"
**Publication:** ESEM '13
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1109/ESEM.2013.21
**Relevance:** Developer productivity and tool adoption (UX design lessons)

### [48] Hutter, F., Hoos, H. H., & Leyton-Brown, K. (2011)
**Title:** "Sequential Model-Based Optimization for General Algorithm Configuration"
**Publication:** LION '11
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25566-3_40
**Relevance:** Automatic parameter tuning (for ML models and thresholds)

### [49] Groce, A., Alipour, M. A., Zhang, C., Chen, Y., & Regehr, J. (2018)
**Title:** "You Are the Oracle: Identifying Test Success in Mutation Testing"
**Publication:** IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2016.2616841
**Relevance:** Testing methodologies applicable to profiler validation

### [50] Gabel, M., & Su, Z. (2010)
**Title:** "A Study of the Uniqueness of Source Code"
**Publication:** FSE '10
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1145/1882291.1882335
**Relevance:** Code structure analysis (for binary hotspot correlation)

---

## 15. Academic Foundations - Graph Analysis & ML

### [23] Scarselli, F., Gori, M., Tsoi, A. C., Hagenbuchner, M., & Monfardini, G. (2009)
**Title:** "The Graph Neural Network Model"
**Publication:** IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1109/TNN.2008.2005605
**Relevance:** GNN for call graph analysis (identify critical paths)

### [24] Jolliffe, I. T., & Cadima, J. (2016)
**Title:** "Principal Component Analysis: A Review and Recent Developments"
**Publication:** Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
**URL:** https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2015.0202
**Relevance:** PCA for dimensionality reduction (visualization and feature engineering)

### [25] Van der Maaten, L., & Hinton, G. (2008)
**Title:** "Visualizing Data using t-SNE"
**Publication:** Journal of Machine Learning Research
**URL:** http://www.jmlr.org/papers/v9/vandermaaten08a.html
**Relevance:** t-SNE for high-dimensional visualization (performance profile exploration)

---

## 16. Success Criteria

### 16.1 Technical Metrics

**Performance:**
- [ ] GPU acceleration: 10-100x speedup vs CPU for large traces
- [ ] Real-time analysis: <1s latency for 10K syscalls
- [ ] Scalability: 100M syscalls processed in <10min

**Accuracy:**
- [ ] Outlier detection: >95% precision, >90% recall
- [ ] Regression detection: >90% accuracy on test set
- [ ] Performance prediction: R² > 0.8

**Usability:**
- [ ] Single-command profiling: `renacer --hpu-profile -- cargo test`
- [ ] Automatic insights: no manual threshold tuning
- [ ] Pre-trained models: work out-of-the-box for Rust workloads

### 16.2 Research Contributions

**Novel Insights:**
- [ ] Publish findings on SIMD/GPU profiling (conference paper)
- [ ] Open-source pre-trained models (model zoo)
- [ ] Benchmark suite comparing Renacer vs perf/flamegraph

**Community Impact:**
- [ ] 1000+ GitHub stars
- [ ] 100+ real-world deployments
- [ ] Integration with cargo (cargo-renacer)

---

## 17. Risk Mitigation

### 17.1 Technical Risks

**Risk:** GPU not available on all systems
**Mitigation:** Graceful fallback to CPU, clear documentation

**Risk:** ML models too large for deployment
**Mitigation:** Model compression (quantization, pruning), <10MB limit

**Risk:** Training data bias
**Mitigation:** Diverse workload collection, cross-validation, fairness metrics

### 17.2 Performance Risks

**Risk:** GPU slower than CPU for small traces
**Mitigation:** Adaptive backend selection (GPU only for >1K syscalls)

**Risk:** Memory exhaustion on large traces
**Mitigation:** Streaming processing, chunked GPU transfers

### 17.3 ML Model Generalization Risks

**Risk:** Overfitting to training workloads
**Mitigation:** Diverse benchmark suite (Sprint 24), cross-validation across project types (I/O-heavy, CPU-bound, mixed), regularization techniques

**Risk:** Poor generalization to unseen Rust codebases
**Mitigation:** Public benchmark dataset for reproducibility, generalization metrics (precision/recall on external projects), iterative model refinement based on real-world feedback

**Risk:** Threshold sensitivity (false positives/negatives)
**Mitigation:** Adaptive threshold tuning based on trace characteristics, user-configurable sensitivity levels, confidence scores for all predictions

### 17.4 Adoption Risks

**Risk:** Too complex for casual users
**Mitigation:** Sensible defaults, progressive disclosure, tutorials

**Risk:** Incompatible with existing workflows
**Mitigation:** cargo integration, flamegraph export, perf compatibility

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## 18. Future Directions (v0.5.0+)

### 18.1 Distributed Profiling

- Multi-machine trace aggregation
- Federated learning (privacy-preserving)
- Cloud-native deployment (Kubernetes)

### 18.2 Active Learning

- User feedback loop (label anomalies)
- Online model updates
- Personalized profiling models

### 18.3 Automated Optimization

- Code transformation suggestions (AI-powered)
- Automatic performance regression fixes
- Self-optimizing binaries

### 18.4 Cross-Language Profiling

- Python/Node.js integration (polyglot profiling)
- WebAssembly profiling
- GPU kernel profiling (CUDA/ROCm)

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## 19. References Summary

This specification is grounded in **50 peer-reviewed publications** spanning:

1. **Performance Profiling** (6 papers): gprof, vertical profiling, multi-threaded profiling
2. **Anomaly Detection & ML** (6 papers): Isolation Forest, autoencoders, LSTM, one-class SVM
3. **Hardware Acceleration** (5 papers): GPU for deep learning, database ops, FPGA comparison
4. **System Performance** (5 papers): DTrace, tail latency, PARSEC benchmarks
5. **Graph & Dimensionality Reduction** (3 papers): GNN, PCA, t-SNE
6. **Explainable AI (XAI)** (4 papers): LIME, SHAP, interpretable ML surveys
7. **Causal Inference** (5 papers): Pearl's causality, Granger causality, causal learning
8. **Systems & HCI for Developers** (16 papers): ML in systems, runtime monitoring, LSTM architectures, Random Forests, distributed systems, performance data mining, developer productivity, testing methodologies

All references are publicly available and peer-reviewed, ensuring scientific rigor and reproducibility.

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## Appendix A: CLI Examples

```bash
# Basic HPU profiling
renacer --hpu-profile -- cargo test

# ML outlier detection
renacer --ml-outliers -- ./myapp

# Deep learning temporal analysis
renacer --dl-temporal -- cargo bench

# Cross-run comparison
renacer --compare baseline.trace current.trace

# Git bisection
renacer --git-bisect main..HEAD --threshold 10%

# Predictive analytics
renacer --predict --history traces/ --codebase .

# Combined (all features)
renacer --hpu-profile --ml-outliers --dl-temporal -- cargo test
```

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## Appendix B: Model Zoo

Pre-trained models for common Rust workloads:

- `models/rust-io.model`: I/O-heavy applications (file servers, databases)
- `models/rust-cpu.model`: CPU-heavy applications (scientific computing)
- `models/rust-network.model`: Network-heavy applications (web servers)
- `models/rust-mixed.model`: General-purpose Rust applications

Download: `renacer --download-models` (opt-in)

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## Appendix C: Document Revision History

**Version 1.0** (2025-11-17): Initial specification with 25 foundational publications

**Version 1.1** (2025-11-17): Toyota Way review integration:
- Added XAI techniques (SHAP, LIME) for explainability (Section 3.2)
- HPU data transfer reality checks and adaptive strategies (Section 3.1.1)
- Causal inference layer for root cause analysis (Section 3.3)
- "Pit of Success" UX design with progressive disclosure (Section 4.6)
- Realistic roadmap estimates (16-19 weeks vs 12 weeks) (Section 5)
- 25 additional academic publications (Sections 12-14)
- Generalization and overfitting risk mitigation (Section 17.3)
- Source code linking for all ML insights

**Review Source:** Toyota Way-inspired technical review focusing on *Kaizen* (continuous improvement), *Jidoka* (built-in quality), *Genchi Genbutsu* (go and see), and *Respect for People* (developer-centric UX).

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**End of Specification**

**Prepared by:** Renacer Development Team
**Contact:** https://github.com/paiml/renacer
**License:** MIT
