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Parallel Gaussian process with kernel approximation in CUDA

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2024-03-20 v1

Abstract

This paper introduces a parallel implementation in CUDA/C++ of the Gaussian process with a decomposed kernel. This recent formulation, introduced by Joukov and Kuli\'c (2022), is characterized by an approximated -- but much smaller -- matrix to be inverted compared to plain Gaussian process. However, it exhibits a limitation when dealing with higher-dimensional samples which degrades execution times. The solution presented in this paper relies on parallelizing the computation of the predictive posterior statistics on a GPU using CUDA and its libraries. The CPU code and GPU code are then benchmarked on different CPU-GPU configurations to show the benefits of the parallel implementation on GPU over the CPU.

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@article{arxiv.2403.12797,
  title  = {Parallel Gaussian process with kernel approximation in CUDA},
  author = {Davide Carminati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.12797},
  year   = {2024}
}