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This paper presents an efficient technique for matrix-vector and vector-transpose-matrix multiplication in distributed-memory parallel computing environments, where the matrices are unstructured, sparse, and have a substantially larger…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Jonathan Eckstein , Gyorgy Matyasfalvi

Sparse matricized tensor times Khatri-Rao product (MTTKRP) is one of the most computationally expensive kernels in sparse tensor computations. This work focuses on optimizing the MTTKRP operation on GPUs, addressing both performance and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Israt Nisa , Jiajia Li , Aravind Sukumaran-Rajam , Richard Vuduc , P. Sadayappan

In classification problems with large output spaces (up to millions of labels), the last layer can require an enormous amount of memory. Using sparse connectivity would drastically reduce the memory requirements, but as we show below, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Erik Schultheis , Rohit Babbar

The inference and training stages of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are often dominated by the time required to compute a long sequence of matrix multiplications between the sparse graph adjacency matrix and its embedding. To accelerate these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-05 João N. F. Alves , Samir Moustafa , Siegfried Benkner , Alexandre P. Francisco , Wilfried N. Gansterer , Luís M. S. Russo

High-performance sparse matrix-matrix (SpMM) multiplication is paramount for science and industry, as the ever-increasing sizes of data prohibit using dense data structures. Yet, existing hardware, such as Tensor Cores (TC), is ill-suited…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Patrik Okanovic , Grzegorz Kwasniewski , Paolo Sylos Labini , Maciej Besta , Flavio Vella , Torsten Hoefler

Graph coloring has been broadly used to discover concurrency in parallel computing. To speedup graph coloring for large-scale datasets, parallel algorithms have been proposed to leverage modern GPUs. Existing GPU implementations either have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Xuhao Chen , Pingfan Li , Jianbin Fang , Tao Tang , Zhiying Wang , Canqun Yang

Structured Cartesian grids are a fundamental component in numerical simulations. Although these grids facilitate straightforward discretization schemes, their na\"{i}ve use in sparse domains leads to excessive memory overhead and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Fan Gu , Xiangyu Hu

General-purpose Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental kernel in scientific computing and deep learning. The emergence of new matrix computation units such as Tensor Cores (TCs) brings more opportunities for SpMM…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Haisha Zhao , San Li , Jiaheng Wang , Chunbao Zhou , Jue Wang , Zhikuang Xin , Shunde Li , Zhiqiang Liang , Zhijie Pan , Fang Liu , Yan Zeng , Yangang Wang , Xuebin Chi

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

Many recent GPUs feature matrix multiplication engines (aka Tensor Core Units or TCUs) that perform small fixed-size matrix-matrix products at very high throughput. They have been used very effectively to speed up dense matrix-matrix…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lizhi Xiang , Omid Asudeh , Gerald Sabin , Aravind Sukumaran-Rajam , P. Sadayappan

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental operation in graph computing and analytics. However, the irregularity of real-world graphs poses significant challenges to achieving efficient SpMM operation for graph data on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zhonggen Li , Xiangyu Ke , Yifan Zhu , Yunjun Gao , Yaofeng Tu

Motivated by extreme multi-label classification applications, we consider training deep learning models over sparse data in multi-GPU servers. The variance in the number of non-zero features across training batches and the intrinsic GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Yujing Ma , Florin Rusu , Kesheng Wu , Alexander Sim

This paper shows how to build a sparse tensor algebra compiler that is agnostic to tensor formats (data layouts). We develop an interface that describes formats in terms of their capabilities and properties, and show how to build a modular…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Stephen Chou , Fredrik Kjolstad , Saman Amarasinghe

This paper introduces sTiles, a GPU-accelerated framework for factorizing sparse structured symmetric matrices. By leveraging tile algorithms for fine-grained computations, sTiles uses a structure-aware task execution flow to handle…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Esmail Abdul Fattah , Hatem Ltaief , Havard Rue , David Keyes

Finite element methods require the composition of the global stiffness matrix from local finite element contributions. The composition process combines the computation of element stiffness matrices and their assembly into the global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Adam Sky , César Polindara , Ingo Muench , Carolin Birk

To accelerate deep CNN models, this paper proposes a novel spatially adaptive framework that can dynamically generate pixel-wise sparsity according to the input image. The sparse scheme is pixel-wise refined, regional adaptive under a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Chen Tang , Wenyu Sun , Zhuqing Yuan , Yongpan Liu

In recent years, the fervent demand for computational power across various domains has prompted hardware manufacturers to introduce specialized computing hardware aimed at enhancing computational capabilities. Particularly, the utilization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Hongyaoxing Gu

The problem of optimal precision switching for the conjugate gradient (CG) method applied to sparse linear systems is considered. A sparse matrix is defined as an $n\!\times\!n$ matrix with $m\!=\!O(n)$ nonzero entries. The algorithm first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Alexander V. Prolubnikov

Reservoir computing systems rely on the recurrent multiplication of a very large, sparse, fixed matrix. We argue that direct spatial implementation of these fixed matrices minimizes the work performed in the computation, and allows for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Matthew Denton , Herman Schmit

Graph-based representations underlie a wide range of scientific problems. Graph connectivity is typically represented as a sparse matrix in the Compressed Sparse Row format. Large-scale graphs rely on distributed storage, allocating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Bruno Magalhaes , Felix Schürmann