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Recently, numerous sparse hardware accelerators for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), and scientific computing applications have been proposed. A common characteristic among all of these accelerators is that they…

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Tensor decomposition (TD) is an important method for extracting latent information from high-dimensional (multi-modal) sparse data. This study presents a novel framework for accelerating fundamental TD operations on massively parallel GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Andy Nguyen , Ahmed E. Helal , Fabio Checconi , Jan Laukemann , Jesmin Jahan Tithi , Yongseok Soh , Teresa Ranadive , Fabrizio Petrini , Jee W. Choi

Tensor algebra lies at the core of computational science and machine learning. Due to its high usage, entire libraries exist dedicated to improving its performance. Conventional tensor algebra performance boosts focus on algorithmic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Sathvik Redrouthu , Rishi Athavale

Leveraging spatial sparsity has become a popular approach to accelerate 3D computer graphics applications. Spatially sparse data structures and efficient sparse kernels (such as parallel stencil operations on active voxels), are key to…

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The analysis of high-dimensional sparse data is becoming increasingly popular in many important domains. However, real-world sparse tensors are challenging to process due to their irregular shapes and data distributions. We propose the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Ahmed E. Helal , Jan Laukemann , Fabio Checconi , Jesmin Jahan Tithi , Teresa Ranadive , Fabrizio Petrini , Jeewhan Choi

Modern research in code generators for dense linear algebra computations has shown the ability to produce optimized code with a performance which compares and often exceeds the one of state-of-the-art implementations by domain experts.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Lorenzo Chelini , Henrik Barthels , Paolo Bientinesi , Marcin Copik , Tobias Grosser , Daniele G. Spampinato

We introduce Stardust, a compiler that compiles sparse tensor algebra to reconfigurable dataflow architectures (RDAs). Stardust introduces new user-provided data representation and scheduling language constructs for mapping to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Olivia Hsu , Alexander Rucker , Tian Zhao , Kunle Olukotun , Fredrik Kjolstad

We have repurposed Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), application-specific chips developed for machine learning, into large-scale dense linear algebra supercomputers. The TPUs' fast inter-core interconnects (ICI)s, physically…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Adam G. M. Lewis , Jackson Beall , Martin Ganahl , Markus Hauru , Shrestha Basu Mallick , Guifre Vidal

In recent years, many accelerators have been proposed to efficiently process sparse tensor algebra applications (e.g., sparse neural networks). However, these proposals are single points in a large and diverse design space. The lack of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Yannan Nellie Wu , Po-An Tsai , Angshuman Parashar , Vivienne Sze , Joel S. Emer

The growing demand for sparse tensor algebra (SpTA) in machine learning and big data has driven the development of various sparse tensor accelerators. However, most existing manually designed accelerators are limited to specific scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Boran Zhao , Haiming Zhai , Zihang Yuan , Hetian Liu , Tian Xia , Wenzhe Zhao , Pengju Ren

Recommendation systems, social network analysis, medical imaging, and data mining often involve processing sparse high-dimensional data. Such high-dimensional data are naturally represented as tensors, and they cannot be efficiently…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Weiyun Jiang , Kaiqi Zhang , Colin Yu Lin , Feng Xing , Zheng Zhang

Sparse linear iterative solvers are essential for many large-scale simulations. Much of the runtime of these solvers is often spent in the implicit evaluation of matrix polynomials via a sequence of sparse matrix-vector products. A variety…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Christie Alappat , Jonas Thies , Georg Hager , Holger Fehske , Gerhard Wellein

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

In this paper, we demonstrate a compiler that can optimize sparse and recurrent neural networks, both of which are currently outside of the scope of existing neural network compilers (sparse neural networks here stand for networks that can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Riyadh Baghdadi , Abdelkader Nadir Debbagh , Kamel Abdous , Fatima Zohra Benhamida , Alex Renda , Jonathan Elliott Frankle , Michael Carbin , Saman Amarasinghe

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

Block encoding of sparse matrices underpins powerful quantum algorithms such as quantum singular value transformation, Hamiltonian simulation, and quantum linear solvers, yet its efficient gate-level realization for general sparse matrices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Abhishek Setty

We study an ill-posed linear inverse problem, where a binary sequence will be reproduced using a sparce matrix. According to the previous study, this model can theoretically provide an optimal compression scheme for an arbitrary distortion…

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We introduce DISTAL, a compiler for dense tensor algebra that targets modern distributed and heterogeneous systems. DISTAL lets users independently describe how tensors and computation map onto target machines through separate format and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Rohan Yadav , Alex Aiken , Fredrik Kjolstad

Tensor programs often need to process large tensors (vectors, matrices, or higher order tensors) that require a specialized storage format for their memory layout. Several such layouts have been proposed in the literature, such as the…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Maximilian Schleich , Amir Shaikhha , Dan Suciu