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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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved significant improvements in various domains. Sparse Matrix-Matrix multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental operator in GNNs, which performs a multiplication between a sparse matrix and a dense…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Guyue Huang , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang

Sparse Matrix-matrix Multiplication (SpMM) and Sampled Dense-dense Matrix Multiplication (SDDMM) are important sparse operators in scientific computing and deep learning. Tensor Core Units (TCUs) enhance modern accelerators with superior…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jinliang Shi , Shigang Li , Youxuan Xu , Rongtian Fu , Xueying Wang , Tong Wu

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

This paper presents a low-overhead optimizer for the ubiquitous sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) kernel. Architectural diversity among different processors together with structural diversity among different sparse matrices lead to…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Nektarios Koziris

Although the matrix multiplication plays a vital role in computational linear algebra, there are few efficient solutions for matrix multiplication of the near-sparse matrices. The Sparse Approximate Matrix Multiply (SpAMM) is one of the…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xiaoyan Liu , Yi Liu , Ming Dun , Bohong Yin , Hailong Yang , Zhongzhi Luan , Depei Qian

Knowledge graph (KG) learning offers a powerful framework for generating new knowledge and making inferences. Training KG embedding can take a significantly long time, especially for larger datasets. Our analysis shows that the gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Md Saidul Hoque Anik , Ariful Azad

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is one of the most important kernels in high-performance computing (HPC), yet SpMV normally suffers from ill performance on many devices. Due to ill performance, SpMV normally requires special care…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Phillip Allen Lane , Joshua Dennis Booth

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are recently getting much attention in bioinformatics and chemoinformatics as a state-of-the-art machine learning approach with high accuracy. GCNs process convolutional operations along with graph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Yusuke Nagasaka , Akira Nukada , Ryosuke Kojima , Satoshi Matsuoka

The multiplication of a sparse matrix with a dense vector (SpMV) is a key component in many numerical schemes and its performance is known to be severely limited by main memory access. Several numerical schemes require the multiplication of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Christie L. Alappat , Georg Hager , Olaf Schenk , Gerhard Wellein

Computation of the large sparse matrix exponential has been an important topic in many fields, such as network and finite-element analysis. The existing scaling and squaring algorithm (SSA) is not suitable for the computation of the large…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Feng Wu , Kailing Zhang , Li Zhu , Jiayao Hu

The increasing importance of multicore processors calls for a reevaluation of established numerical algorithms in view of their ability to profit from this new hardware concept. In order to optimize the existent algorithms, a detailed…

Performance · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Gerald Schubert , Georg Hager , Holger Fehske

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Mina Ashoury , Mohammad Loni , Farshad Khunjush , Masoud Daneshtalab

We present scalable distributed-memory algorithms for sparse matrix permutation, extraction, and assignment. Our methods follow an Identify-Exchange-Build (IEB) strategy where each process identifies the local nonzeros to be sent, exchanges…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Elaheh Hassani , Md Taufique Hussain , Ariful Azad

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a crucial computing kernel with widespread applications in iterative algorithms. Over the past decades, research on SpMV optimization has made remarkable strides, giving rise to various…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianhua Gao , Bingjie Liu , Weixing Ji , Hua Huang

General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) is a critical kernel in high-performance computing and deep learning. While modern architectures like ARM's Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) introduce dedicated hardware for matrix operations, existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Chencheng Deng , Weiling Yang , Jianbin Fang , Dezun Dong

The sparse matrix-vector multiply (SpMV) operation is a key computational kernel in many simulations and linear solvers. The large communication requirements associated with a reference implementation of a parallel SpMV result in poor…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Amanda Bienz , William D. Gropp , Luke N. Olson

Sparse matrix-vector and matrix-matrix multiplication (SpMV and SpMM) are fundamental in both conventional (graph analytics, scientific computing) and emerging (sparse DNN, GNN) domains. Workload-balancing and parallel-reduction are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Guyue Huang , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

Parallel matrix multiplication is one of the most studied fundamental problems in distributed and high performance computing. We obtain a new parallel algorithm that is based on Strassen's fast matrix multiplication and minimizes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Grey Ballard , James Demmel , Olga Holtz , Benjamin Lipshitz , Oded Schwartz

Sparse Ternary General Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) remains under-optimized in existing libraries for Apple Silicon CPUs. We present a Sparse Ternary GEMM kernel optimized specifically for Apple's M-series processors. We propose a…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Baraq Lipshitz , Alessio Melone , Charalampos Maraziaris , Muhammed Bilal