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Sparse matrices and linear algebra are at the heart of scientific simulations. Over the years, more than 70 sparse matrix storage formats have been developed, targeting a wide range of hardware architectures and matrix types, each of which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Christodoulos Stylianou , Mark Klaisoongnoen , Ricardo Jesus , Nick Brown , Michele Weiland

We suggest a technique to reduce the storage size of sparse matrices at no loss of information. We call this technique Diagonally-Adressed (DA) storage. It exploits the typically low matrix bandwidth of matrices arising in applications. For…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Jens Saak , Jonas Schulze

Sparse linear algebra kernels play a critical role in numerous applications, covering from exascale scientific simulation to large-scale data analytics. Offloading linear algebra kernels on one GPU will no longer be viable in these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Jieyang Chen , Chenhao Xie , Jesun S Firoz , Jiajia Li , Shuaiwen Leon Song , Kevin Barker , Mark Raugas , Ang Li

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (spMVM) is the most time-consuming kernel in many numerical algorithms and has been studied extensively on all modern processor and accelerator architectures. However, the optimal sparse matrix data…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Moritz Kreutzer , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein , Holger Fehske , Alan R. Bishop

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are emerging as a powerful technique for modeling graph structures. Due to the sparsity of real-world graph data, GNN performance is limited by extensive sparse matrix multiplication (SpMM) operations involved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shenghao Qiu , You Liang , Zheng Wang

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental kernel across scientific computing and machine learning. While prior work accelerates SpMM using Tensor Cores, no existing sparse kernel exploits the asynchronous features of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jie Liu , Huanzhi Pu , Zhiru Zhang

Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (SpMV) is a critical operation for the iterative solver of Finite Element Methods on computer simulation. Since the SpMV operation is a memory-bound algorithm, the efficiency of data movements heavily…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Chong Chen

Accelerators for sparse matrix multiplication are important components in emerging systems. In this paper, we study the main challenges of accelerating Sparse Matrix Multiplication (SpMM). For the situations that data is not stored in the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Pareesa Ameneh Golnari , Sharad Malik

Sparse data structures are commonly used in neural networks to reduce the memory footprint. These data structures are compact but cause irregularities such as random memory accesses, which prevent efficient use of the memory hierarchy. GPUs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hossein Albakri , Kazem Cheshmi

Sparse matrices and linear algebra are at the heart of scientific simulations. More than 70 sparse matrix storage formats have been developed over the years, targeting a wide range of hardware architectures and matrix types. Each format is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Chris Stylianou , Michele Weiland

In this paper, we propose an optimization selection methodology for the ubiquitous sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) kernel. We propose two models that attempt to identify the major performance bottleneck of the kernel for every…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Nectarios Koziris

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental operation in machine learning, scientific computing, and graph algorithms. In this paper, we investigate the space, time, and energy efficiency of SpMV using various compressed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Francesco Tosoni , Philip Bille , Valerio Brunacci , Alessio De Angelis , Paolo Ferragina , Giovanni Manzini

Sparse matrix vector multiplication (SpMV) is an important kernel in scientific and engineering applications. The previous optimizations are sparse matrix format specific and expose the choice of the best format to application programmers.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Jiajia Li , Xiuxia Zhang , Guangming Tan , Mingyu Chen

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is an essential linear algebra operation that dominates the computing cost in many scientific applications. Due to providing massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth, GPUs are commonly used to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Mina Ashoury , Mohammad Loni , Farshad Khunjush , Masoud Daneshtalab

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental operation in scientific computing, data analysis, and machine learning. When the data being processed are sensitive, preserving privacy becomes critical, and homomorphic encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yang Gao , Gang Quan , Wujie Wen , Scott Piersall , Qian Lou , Liqiang Wang

We propose a new sparse matrix format, PackSELL, designed to support diverse data representations and enable efficient sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) on GPUs. Building on sliced ELLPACK (SELL), PackSELL incorporates delta…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kengo Suzuki , Takeshi Iwashita

We design and develop a work-efficient multithreaded algorithm for sparse matrix-sparse vector multiplication (SpMSpV) where the matrix, the input vector, and the output vector are all sparse. SpMSpV is an important primitive in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Ariful Azad , Aydin Buluc

Despite numerous efforts for optimizing the performance of Sparse Matrix and Vector Multiplication (SpMV) on modern hardware architectures, few works are done to its sparse counterpart, Sparse Matrix and Sparse Vector Multiplication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Min Li , Yulong Ao , Chao Yang

The matrices used in many computational settings are naturally sparse, holding a small percentage of nonzero elements. Storing such matrices in specialized sparse formats enables algorithms that avoid wasting computation on zeros,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Pratyush Das , Amirhossein Basareh , Adhitha Dias , Artem Pelenitsyn , Kirshanthan Sundararajah , Milind Kulkarni , Ben Delaware

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a crucial computing kernel with widespread applications in iterative algorithms. Over the past decades, research on SpMV optimization has made remarkable strides, giving rise to various…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianhua Gao , Bingjie Liu , Weixing Ji , Hua Huang