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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,…

Convolutional sparse coding (CSC) improves sparse coding by learning a shift-invariant dictionary from the data. However, existing CSC algorithms operate in the batch mode and are expensive, in terms of both space and time, on large…

Compressed Sparse Column (CSC) and Coordinate (COO) are popular compression formats for sparse matrices. However, both CSC and COO are general purpose and cannot take advantage of any of the properties of the data other than sparsity, such…

Sparse Matrix-matrix Multiplication (SpMM) and Sampled Dense-dense Matrix Multiplication (SDDMM) are important sparse operators in scientific computing and deep learning. Tensor Core Units (TCUs) enhance modern accelerators with superior…

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental operation with a wide range of applications in scientific computing and artificial intelligence. However, the large scale and sparsity of sparse matrix often make it a performance…

Sparse linear algebra is crucial in many application domains, but challenging to handle efficiently in both software and hardware, with one- and two-sided operand sparsity handled with distinct approaches. In this work, we enhance an…

Scientific workloads have traditionally exploited high levels of sparsity to accelerate computation and reduce memory requirements. While deep neural networks can be made sparse, achieving practical speedups on GPUs is difficult because…

The sparse representation of graphs has shown great potential for accelerating the computation of graph applications (e.g., Social Networks, Knowledge Graphs) on traditional computing architectures (CPU, GPU, or TPU). But the exploration of…

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…

Sparse matrix multiplication is an important kernel for large-scale graph processing and other data-intensive applications. In this paper, we implement various asynchronous, RDMA-based sparse times dense (SpMM) and sparse times sparse…

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…

Sparse matrices and tensors are ubiquitous throughout multiple subfields of computing. The widespread usage of sparse data has inspired many in-memory and on-disk storage formats, but the only widely adopted storage specifications are the…

Tensor accelerators have gained popularity because they provide a cheap and efficient solution for speeding up computational-expensive tasks in Deep Learning and, more recently, in other Scientific Computing applications. However, since…

Registers are the fastest memory components within the GPU's complex memory hierarchy, accessed by names rather than addresses. They are managed entirely by the compiler through a process called register allocation, during which the…

We contribute a third-party survey of sparse matrix-vector (SpMV) product performance on industrial-strength, large matrices using: (1) The SpMV implementations in Intel MKL, the Trilinos project (Tpetra subpackage), the CUSPARSE library,…

We propose a sparse algebra for samplet compressed kernel matrices, to enable efficient scattered data analysis. We show the compression of kernel matrices by means of samplets produces optimally sparse matrices in a certain S-format. It…

As neural network model sizes have dramatically increased, so has the interest in various techniques to reduce their parameter counts and accelerate their execution. An active area of research in this field is sparsity - encouraging zero…

Sparsity, which occurs in both scientific applications and Deep Learning (DL) models, has been a key target of optimization within recent ASIC accelerators due to the potential memory and compute savings. These applications use data stored…

Sparse GNN aggregations (CSR SpMM/SDDMM) vary widely in performance with degree skew, feature width, and GPU micro-architecture. We present AutoSAGE, an input-aware CUDA scheduler that chooses tiling and mapping per input using a…

We propose different implementations of the sparse matrix--dense vector multiplication (\spmv{}) for finite fields and rings $\Zb/m\Zb$. We take advantage of graphic card processors (GPU) and multi-core architectures. Our aim is to improve…