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Artificial intelligence workloads, especially transformer models, exhibit emergent sparsity in which computations perform selective sparse access to dense data. The workloads are inefficient on hardware designed for dense computations and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Brian Wheatman , Meghana Madhyastha , Randal Burns

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Benjamin Brock , Aydın Buluç , Katherine Yelick

Sparse matrix multiplication operators (i.e., SpMM and SDDMM) are widely used in deep learning and scientific computing. Modern accelerators are commonly equipped with Tensor Core Units (TCUs) and CUDA cores to accelerate sparse operators.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jinliang Shi , Shigang Li , Youxuan Xu , Xueying Wang , Rongtian Fu , Zhi Ma , Tong Wu

As hardware architectures are evolving in the push towards exascale, developing Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) applications depend on performance portable approaches for sustainable software development. This paper describes…

This work focuses on accelerating the multiplication of a dense random matrix with a (fixed) sparse matrix, which is frequently used in sketching algorithms. We develop a novel scheme that takes advantage of blocking and recomputation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Tianyu Liang , Riley Murray , Aydın Buluç , James Demmel

To address the challenge of performance portability, and facilitate the implementation of electronic structure solvers, we developed the Basic Matrix Library (BML) and Parallel, Rapid O(N) and Graph-based Recursive Electronic Structure…

Matrix multiplication is fundamental in the backpropagation algorithm used to train deep neural network models. Libraries like Intel's MKL or NVIDIA's cuBLAS implemented new and optimized matrix multiplication techniques that increase…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-28 L. A. Torres , Carlos J. Barrios H , Yves Denneulin

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

Support for lower precision computation is becoming more common in accelerator hardware due to lower power usage, reduced data movement and increased computational performance. However, computational science and engineering (CSE) problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Jennifer A. Loe , Christian A. Glusa , Ichitaro Yamazaki , Erik G. Boman , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam

Although reliable long precision floating-point arithmetic libraries such as QD and MPFR/GMP are necessary to solve ill-conditioned problems in numerical simulation, long precision BLAS-level computation such as matrix multiplication has…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Tomonori Kouya

Sparse tensor algebra is challenging to efficiently parallelize due to the irregular, data-dependent, and potentially skewed structure of sparse computation. We propose the first partitioning algorithm that provably load balances the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Atharva Chougule , Alexander J Root , Rubens Lacouture , Bobby Yan , Rohan Yadav , Fredrik Kjolstad

In this paper, we focus on three sparse matrix operations that are relevant for machine learning applications, namely, the sparse-dense matrix multiplication (SPMM), the sampled dense-dense matrix multiplication (SDDMM), and the composition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Mohammad Zubair , Christoph Bauinger

With the increasing development of neuromorphic platforms and their related software tools as well as the increasing scale of spiking neural network (SNN) models, there is a pressure for interoperable and scalable representations of network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Felix Wang

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental operation in both training of neural networks and inference. To accelerate matrix multiplication, Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) provide it implemented in hardware. Due to the increased throughput…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Faizan A. Khattak , Mantas Mikaitis

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

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

Matrix multiplication is a foundational operation in scientific computing and machine learning, yet its computational complexity makes it a significant bottleneck for large-scale applications. The shift to parallel architectures, primarily…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Mufakir Qamar Ansari , Mudabir Qamar Ansari

The exponentially growing model size drives the continued success of deep learning, but it brings prohibitive computation and memory cost. From the algorithm perspective, model sparsification and quantization have been studied to alleviate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Shigang Li , Kazuki Osawa , Torsten Hoefler

This work introduces CLBlast, an open-source BLAS library providing optimized OpenCL routines to accelerate dense linear algebra for a wide variety of devices. It is targeted at machine learning and HPC applications and thus provides a fast…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Cedric Nugteren

Advancing research in the emerging field of deep graph learning requires new tools to support tensor computation over graphs. In this paper, we present the design principles and implementation of Deep Graph Library (DGL). DGL distills the…