English
Related papers

Related papers: The Granularity Gap Problem: A Hurdle for Applying…

200 papers

Offloading compute-intensive kernels to hardware accelerators relies on the large degree of parallelism offered by these platforms. However, the effective bandwidth of the memory interface often causes a bottleneck, hindering the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Corentin Ferry , Tomofumi Yuki , Steven Derrien , Sanjay Rajopadhye

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have grown exponentially in size over the past decade, leaving only those who have massive datacenter-based resources with the ability to develop and train such models. One of the main challenges for the long…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Youjie Li , Amar Phanishayee , Derek Murray , Jakub Tarnawski , Nam Sung Kim

Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are specialized accelerators commonly employed to boost performance in workloads with iterative structures. Existing research typically focuses on compiler or architecture optimizations aimed at…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiangfeng Liu , Zhe Jiang , Anzhen Zhu , Xiaomeng Han , Mingsong Lyu , Qingxu Deng , Nan Guan

Today's systems are overwhelmingly designed to move data to computation. This design choice goes directly against at least three key trends in systems that cause performance, scalability and energy bottlenecks: (1) data access from memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Onur Mutlu , Saugata Ghose , Juan Gómez-Luna , Rachata Ausavarungnirun

Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become state-of-the-art algorithms for analyzing non-euclidean graph data. However, to realize efficient GNN training is challenging, especially on large graphs. The reasons are many-folded: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Zhe Zhou , Cong Li , Xuechao Wei , Xiaoyang Wang , Guangyu Sun

Scaling Transformers to longer sequence lengths has been a major problem in the last several years, promising to improve performance in language modeling and high-resolution image understanding, as well as to unlock new applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Tri Dao

The graph matching optimization problem is an essential component for many tasks in computer vision, such as bringing two deformable objects in correspondence. Naturally, a wide range of applicable algorithms have been proposed in the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Stefan Haller , Lorenz Feineis , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Carsten Rother , Dagmar Kainmüller , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy

Real-world graph applications are generally larger than the size of the cache itself. Due to this reason, the memory hierarchy was identified as a key bottleneck by the earlier works. Undoubtedly, the performance can be achieved by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Upasna , Venkata Kalyan Tavva

Large Language Models (LLMs) with extended context lengths face significant computational challenges during the pre-filling phase, primarily due to the quadratic complexity of self-attention. Existing methods typically employ dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yu Zhang , Dong Guo , Fang Wu , Guoliang Zhu , Dian Ding , Yiming Zhang

In this paper, we present that security threats coming with existing GPU memory management strategy are overlooked, which opens a back door for adversaries to freely break the memory isolation: they enable adversaries without any privilege…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Zhe Zhou , Wenrui Diao , Xiangyu Liu , Zhou Li , Kehuan Zhang , Rui Liu

We describe a parallel approximation algorithm for maximizing monotone submodular functions subject to hereditary constraints on distributed memory multiprocessors. Our work is motivated by the need to solve submodular optimization problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shivaram Gopal , S M Ferdous , Hemanta K. Maji , Alex Pothen

In nearly every discipline, scientific computations are limited by the cost and speed of computation. For example, the best-known exact algorithms for the canonical Traveling Salesman Problem would take centuries to run on an instance of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Jeffery Li , Jayson Lynch , Liva Olina , Cecilia Chen , Andrew Lucas , Neil Thompson

As memory technologies continue to shrink and memory error rates increase, the demand for stronger reliability becomes increasingly critical. Fine-grain memory replication has emerged as an appealing approach to improving memory fault…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Haris Volos , Yiannakis Sazeides

Many convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerators face performance- and energy-efficiency challenges which are crucial for embedded implementations, due to high DRAM access latency and energy. Recently, some DRAM architectures have been…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

Main memory's rising energy consumption has emerged as a critical challenge in modern computing architectures, particularly in large-scale systems, driven by frequent access patterns, growing data volumes, and insufficient power management…

Concurrent data structures often require additional memory for handling synchronization issues in addition to memory for storing elements. Depending on the amount of this additional memory, implementations can be more or less…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Vitaly Aksenov , Nikita Koval , Petr Kuznetsov , Anton Paramonov

In future data centers, applications will make heavy use of far memory (including disaggregated memory pools and NVM). The access latency of far memory is more widely distributed than that of local memory accesses. This makes the efficiency…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Luming Wang , Xu Zhang , Tianyue Lu , Mingyu Chen

Not all approximations arise from information systems. The problem of fitting approximations, subjected to some rules (and related data), to information systems in a rough scheme of things is known as the \emph{inverse problem}. The inverse…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-04-19 A. Mani

Multi-threaded applications are capable of exploiting the full potential of many-core systems. However, Network-on-Chip (NoC) based inter-core communication in many-core systems is responsible for 60-75% of the miss latency experienced by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Abhijit Das , John Jose , Prabhat Mishra

Nearest neighbor search is a fundamental data structure problem with many applications in machine learning, computer vision, recommendation systems and other fields. Although the main objective of the data structure is to quickly report…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Piyush Anand , Piotr Indyk , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Sepideh Mahabadi , Vikas C. Raykar , Kirankumar Shiragur , Haike Xu