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Generalized sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (or SpGEMM) is a key primitive for many high performance graph algorithms as well as for some linear solvers, such as algebraic multigrid. Here we show that SpGEMM also yields efficient…

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We study Sparse Multiple Kernel Learning (SMKL), which is the problem of selecting a sparse convex combination of prespecified kernels for support vector binary classification. Unlike prevailing l1 regularized approaches that approximate a…

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Sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a critical operation in numerous fields, including scientific computing, graph analytics, and deep learning. These applications exploit the sparsity of matrices to reduce storage and…

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Understanding the scalability of parallel programs is crucial for software optimization and hardware architecture design. As HPC hardware is moving towards many-core design, it becomes increasingly difficult for a parallel program to make…

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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 the cornerstone in many iterative workloads, including large-scale graph analytics and sparse iterative solvers. Accelerating SpMV on real-world graphs remains challenging due to highly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Qi Zhang , Zhengan Yao , Zhenglu Jiang , Zan-Bo Zhang

The sparse matrix-vector product (SpMV) is a fundamental operation in many scientific applications from various fields. The High Performance Computing (HPC) community has therefore continuously invested a lot of effort to provide an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Berenger Bramas , Pavel Kus

Architectures with multiple classes of memory media are becoming a common part of mainstream supercomputer deployments. So called multi-level memories offer differing characteristics for each memory component including variation in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Mehmet Deveci , Simon D. Hammond , Michael M. Wolf , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam

This work evaluates the impact of sparse matrix reordering on the performance of sparse matrix-vector multiplication across different multicore CPU platforms. Reordering can significantly enhance performance by optimizing the non-zero…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Omid Asudeh , Sina Mahdipour Saravani , Gerald Sabin , Fabrice Rastello , P Sadayappan

We implement two novel algorithms for sparse-matrix dense-matrix multiplication (SpMM) on the GPU. Our algorithms expect the sparse input in the popular compressed-sparse-row (CSR) format and thus do not require expensive format conversion.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Carl Yang , Aydin Buluc , John D. Owens

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental computation in graph analytics, scientific simulation, and sparse deep learning workloads. However, the extreme irregularity of real-world sparse matrices prevents existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Aiying Li , Jingwei Sun , Han Li , Wence Ji , Guangzhong Sun

Sparse general matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a fundamental building block for many real-world applications. Since SpGEMM is a well-known memory-bounded application with vast and irregular memory accesses, considering the memory access…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Zhaoyang Du , Yijin Guan , Tianchan Guan , Dimin Niu , Hongzhong Zheng , Yuan Xie

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-dense matrix multiplication (SpMM) is a critical kernel in scientific computing, graph analytics, and machine learning, whose performance is often constrained by memory bandwidth. In this work, we investigate the applicability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Matthew Qian , Yahia Ramadan , Suhita Anubha , Ariful Azad

A new format for storing sparse matrices is proposed for efficient sparse matrix-vector (SpMV) product calculation on modern graphics processing units (GPUs). This format extends the standard compressed row storage (CRS) format and can be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Zbigniew Koza , Maciej Matyka , Sebastian Szkoda , Łukasz Mirosław

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental building block for numerous applications. In this paper, we propose CSR5 (Compressed Sparse Row 5), a new storage format, which offers high-throughput SpMV on various platforms…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Weifeng Liu , Brian Vinter

General sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a fundamental building block for numerous applications such as algebraic multigrid method (AMG), breadth first search and shortest path problem. Compared to other sparse BLAS routines,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Weifeng Liu , Brian Vinter

Scaling up the sparse matrix-vector multiplication kernel on modern Graphics Processing Units (GPU) has been at the heart of numerous studies in both academia and industry. In this article we present a novel non-parametric, self-tunable,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-12-24 Xintian Yang , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Ponnuswamy Sadayappan

We propose a fine-grained hypergraph model for sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM), a key computational kernel in scientific computing and data analysis whose performance is often communication bound. This model correctly describes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Grey Ballard , Alex Druinsky , Nicholas Knight , Oded Schwartz

Sparse matrices have recently played a significant and impactful role in scientific computing, including artificial intelligence-related fields. According to historical studies on sparse matrix--vector multiplication (SpMV), Krylov subspace…

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