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We introduce an algorithm for efficiently representing convolution with zero-padding and stride as a sparse transformation matrix, applied to a vectorized input through sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV). We provide a theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zan Chaudhry

Recent studies from several hyperscalars pinpoint to embedding layers as the most memory-intensive deep learning (DL) algorithm being deployed in today's datacenters. This paper addresses the memory capacity and bandwidth challenges of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Youngeun Kwon , Yunjae Lee , Minsoo Rhu

Most, if not all the modern scientific simulation packages utilize matrix algebra operations. Among the operation of the linear algebra, one of the most important kernels is the multiplication of matrices, dense and sparse. Examples of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Ilia Sivkov , Alfio Lazzaro , Juerg Hutter

Tree-based models underpin many modern semantic search engines and recommender systems due to their sub-linear inference times. In industrial applications, these models operate at extreme scales, where every bit of performance is critical.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Philip A. Etter , Kai Zhong , Hsiang-Fu Yu , Lexing Ying , Inderjit Dhillon

General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) is a fundamental operation widely used in scientific computations. Its performance and accuracy significantly impact the performance and accuracy of applications that depend on it. One such application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Fumiya Kono , Naohito Nakasato , Maho Nakata

Sparse general matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a fundamental building block in numerous scientific applications. One critical task of SpGEMM is to compute or predict the structure of the output matrix (i.e., the number of nonzero elements…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Zhaoyang Du , Yijin Guan , Tianchan Guan , Dimin Niu , Nianxiong Tan , Xiaopeng Yu , Hongzhong Zheng , Jianyi Meng , Xiaolang Yan , Yuan Xie

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

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bo Lyu , Shengbo Wang , Shiping Wen , Kaibo Shi , Yin Yang , Lingfang Zeng , Tingwen Huang

The multiplication of two sparse matrices, known as SpGEMM, is a key kernel in scientific computing and large-scale data analytics, underpinning graph algorithms, machine learning, simulations, and computational biology, where sparsity is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Julian Bellavita , Lorenzo Pichetti , Thomas Pasquali , Flavio Vella , Giulia Guidi

There is a growing interest in custom spatial accelerators for machine learning applications. These accelerators employ a spatial array of processing elements (PEs) interacting via custom buffer hierarchies and networks-on-chip. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Gordon E. Moon , Hyoukjun Kwon , Geonhwa Jeong , Prasanth Chatarasi , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Tushar Krishna

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

The increasing complexity of deep learning recommendation models (DLRM) has led to a growing need for large-scale distributed systems that can efficiently train vast amounts of data. In DLRM, the sparse embedding table is a crucial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Xin Zhang , Quanyu Zhu , Liangbei Xu , Zain Huda , Wang Zhou , Jin Fang , Dennis van der Staay , Yuxi Hu , Jade Nie , Jiyan Yang , Chunzhi Yang

Generalised matrix-matrix multiplication forms the kernel of many mathematical algorithms. A faster matrix-matrix multiply immediately benefits these algorithms. In this paper we implement efficient matrix multiplication for large matrices…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Douglas Aberdeen , Jonathan Baxter

This paper presents a novel meta algorithm, Partition-Merge (PM), which takes existing centralized algorithms for graph computation and makes them distributed and faster. In a nutshell, PM divides the graph into small subgraphs using our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Vincent Blondel , Kyomin Jung , Pushmeet Kohli , Devavrat Shah

This paper investigates the problem of Secure Multi-party Batch Matrix Multiplication (SMBMM), where a user aims to compute the pairwise products…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jinbao Zhu , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang

Sparse matrix vector multiplication (SpMV) is central to numerous data-intensive applications, but requires streaming indirect memory accesses that severely degrade both processing and memory throughput in state-of-the-art architectures.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Chi Zhang , Paul Scheffler , Thomas Benz , Matteo Perotti , Luca Benini

The Apache Accumulo database excels at distributed storage and indexing and is ideally suited for storing graph data. Many big data analytics compute on graph data and persist their results back to the database. These graph calculations are…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Dylan Hutchison , Jeremy Kepner , Vijay Gadepally , Adam Fuchs

Resistive Random-Access-Memory (ReRAM) crossbar is a promising technique for deep neural network (DNN) accelerators, thanks to its in-memory and in-situ analog computing abilities for Vector-Matrix Multiplication-and-Accumulations (VMMs).…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Fangxin Liu , Wenbo Zhao , Yilong Zhao , Zongwu Wang , Tao Yang , Zhezhi He , Naifeng Jing , Xiaoyao Liang , Li Jiang

Processing-in-memory (PIM) turns out to be a promising solution to breakthrough the memory wall and the power wall. While prior PIM designs yield successful implementation of bitwise Boolean logic operations locally in memory, it is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Xin Ma , Liang Chang , Shuangchen Li , Lei Deng , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) provide an energy-efficient solution by utilizing the spike-based and sparse nature of biological systems. Since the advent of Transformers, SNNs have struggled to compete with artificial networks on long…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yan Zhong , Ruoyu Zhao , Chao Wang , Qinghai Guo , Jianguo Zhang , Zhichao Lu , Luziwei Leng