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Current AI training infrastructure is dominated by single instruction multiple data (SIMD) and systolic array architectures, such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), that excel at accelerating parallel…
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General matrix-matrix multiplication (GEMM) is a cornerstone of AI computations, making tensor processing engines (TPEs) increasingly critical in GPUs and domain-specific architectures. Existing architectures primarily optimize dataflow or…
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Sparse neural systems are gaining traction for efficient continual learning due to their modularity and low interference. Architectures such as Sparse Distributed Memory Multi-Layer Perceptrons (SDMLP) construct task-specific subnetworks…
Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (SpMV) has become a critical performance bottleneck in the local deployment of sparse Large Language Models (LLMs), where inference predominantly operates on workloads during the decoder phase with a…
Sparse-dense linear algebra is crucial in many domains, but challenging to handle efficiently on CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators alike; multiplications with sparse formats like CSR and CSF require indirect memory lookups. In this work, we…
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…
Sparse general matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a critical operation in many applications. Current multithreaded implementations are based on Gustavson's algorithm and often perform poorly on large matrices due to limited cache…
Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (Optane PMM) is a new kind of byte-addressable memory with higher density and lower cost than DRAM. This enables the design of affordable systems that support up to 6TB of randomly accessible memory. In…
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The deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) in privacy-sensitive environments is constrained by computational overheads in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). This paper explores unstructured sparsity in FHE matrix multiplication schemes…
Straggler nodes are well-known bottlenecks of distributed matrix computations which induce reductions in computation/communication speeds. A common strategy for mitigating such stragglers is to incorporate Reed-Solomon based MDS (maximum…
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…