Table of Contents

Learning Resources

Resources marked with → are best.

• Introduction
  • → 2019 EuroLLVM Developers’ Meeting: MLIR: Multi-Level Intermediate Representation Compiler Infrastructure
  • → MLIR: A Compiler Infrastructure for the End of Moore’s Law The paper introducing the MLIR framework
    • 7-minute video summary of paper: Read a paper: Multi-level Intermediate Representation (MLIR)
    • Another version of the paper: MLIR: Scaling Compiler Infrastructure for Domain Specific Computation
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXAp6ZAWyBY&t=305s
• MLIR Tutorial
  • → (slides) MLIR Tutorial (LLVM Dev Mtg, 2020)
  • → (video) 2020 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: M. Amini & R. Riddle “MLIR Tutorial”
  • (older slides) MLIR Tutorial (LLVM Developers Meeting, Euro-LLVM 2019)
  • (older slides) MLIR Tutorial (MLIR 4 HPC, 2019)
  • (older video) 2019 EuroLLVM Developers’ Meeting: Mehdi & Vasilache & Zinenko “Building a Compiler with MLIR”
• → Another MLIR Tutorial https://github.com/j2kun/mlir-tutorial
• → How to build a compiler with LLVM and MLIR
• Other articles, posts
  • → Intro to LLVM and MLIR with Rust and Melior
  • → MLIR Notes
  • → Compilers and IRs: LLVM IR, SPIR-V, and MLIR [HN]
  • MLIR: Redefining the compiler infrastructure
  • Pinch: Implementing a borrow-checked language with MLIR
• Official Documentation
  • MLIR Homepage
  • MLIR Language Reference
  • MLIR Compiler Youtube Channel

Dialects

• https://mlir.llvm.org/docs/Tutorials/CreatingADialect/

• How to Build your own MLIR Dialect

  How to Build your own MLIR Dialect

• 2023 EuroLLVM - MLIR Dialect Design and Composition for Front-End Compilers

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIt6J1_E21c

• Jeremy Kun Tutorial

• https://gibsonic.org/blog/2024/01/11/new_mlir_dialect.html

• https://medium.com/@princejain_77044/how-mlir-improves-upon-llvm-an-example-on-power-of-dialects-3e7d9a98a25e

• https://medium.com/@60b36t/understanding-mlir-passes-through-a-simple-dialect-transformation-879ca47f504f

• https://medium.com/sniper-ai/mlir-tutorial-create-your-custom-dialect-lowering-to-llvm-ir-dialect-system-1-1f125a6a3008