Championship Branch Prediction (CBP2025) @ ISCA 2025

6th Championship Branch Prediction (CBP2025), sponsored by ARM.
In conjunction with ISCA 2025
Tokyo, Japan

As in previous CBP iterations, the goal of this competition is to encourage researchers and practitioners to push the envelope in branch prediction.  CBP2025 features over 100 training traces sampled from industry relevant workloads.  Each trace includes the complete instruction stream with decode and execution information.  Contestants are also provided a characterization of load-dependent branches in these traces and a generous 192KB budget for their predictors, to inspire designs that go beyond conventional branch/path history context.  The CBP2025 infrastructure (simulator and traces), contestants’ code, and results, will be disseminated to the computer architecture community for further research and independent verification of results.

Website: https://ericrotenberg.wordpress.ncsu.edu/cbp2025