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There is often variation in the shape and size of input data used for deep learning. In many cases, such data can be represented using tensors with non-uniform shapes, or ragged tensors. Due to limited and non-portable support for efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Pratik Fegade , Tianqi Chen , Phillip B. Gibbons , Todd C. Mowry

Advanced algorithms for large-scale electronic structure calculations are mostly based on processing multi-dimensional sparse data. Examples are sparse matrix-matrix multiplications in linear-scaling Kohn-Sham calculations or the efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Ilia Sivkov , Patrick Seewald , Alfio Lazzaro , Juerg Hutter

Efficient execution of deep learning workloads on dataflow architectures is crucial for overcoming memory bottlenecks and maximizing performance. While streaming intermediate results between computation kernels can significantly improve…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Hanchen Ye , Deming Chen

The tensor programming abstraction is a foundational paradigm which allows users to write high performance programs via a high-level imperative interface. Recent work on sparse tensor compilers has extended this paradigm to sparse tensors…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Kyle Deeds , Willow Ahrens , Magda Balazinska , Dan Suciu

Sparse tensors appear frequently in distributed deep learning, either as a direct artifact of the deep neural network's gradients, or as a result of an explicit sparsification process. Existing communication primitives are agnostic to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Kelly Kostopoulou , Hang Xu , Aritra Dutta , Xin Li , Alexandros Ntoulas , Panos Kalnis

Sparse compiler is a promising solution for sparse tensor algebra optimization. In compiler implementation, reduction in sparse-dense hybrid algebra plays a key role in performance. Though GPU provides various reduction semantics that can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Genghan Zhang , Yuetong Zhao , Yanting Tao , Zhongming Yu , Guohao Dai , Sitao Huang , Yuan Wen , Pavlos Petoumenos , Yu Wang

Over the past few years, the explosion in sparse tensor algebra workloads has led to a corresponding rise in domain-specific accelerators to service them. Due to the irregularity present in sparse tensors, these accelerators employ a wide…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Nandeeka Nayak , Toluwanimi O. Odemuyiwa , Shubham Ugare , Christopher W. Fletcher , Michael Pellauer , Joel S. Emer

This paper presents a code generator for sparse tensor contraction computations. It leverages a mathematical representation of loop nest computations in the sparse polyhedral framework (SPF), which extends the polyhedral model to support…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Tuowen Zhao , Tobi Popoola , Mary Hall , Catherine Olschanowsky , Michelle Mills Strout

This document describes an attempt to develop a compiler-based approach for computations with symmetric tensors. Given a computation and the symmetries of its input tensors, we derive formulas for random access under a storage scheme that…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Jessica Shi , Stephen Chou , Fredrik Kjolstad , Saman Amarasinghe

Ternary quantization has emerged as a powerful technique for reducing both computational and memory footprint of large language models (LLM), enabling efficient real-time inference deployment without significantly compromising model…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zhirui Huang , Rui Ma , Shijie Cao , Ran Shu , Ian Wang , Ting Cao , Chixiao Chen , Yongqiang Xiong

Recently, classical kernel methods have been extended by the introduction of suitable tensor kernels so to promote sparsity in the solution of the underlying regression problem. Indeed, they solve an lp-norm regularization problem, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Feliks Hibraj , Marcello Pelillo , Saverio Salzo , Massimiliano Pontil

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…

Sparse-dense linear algebra is crucial in many domains, but challenging to handle efficiently on CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators alike; multiplications with sparse formats like CSR and CSF require indirect memory lookups. In this work, we…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Paul Scheffler , Florian Zaruba , Fabian Schuiki , Torsten Hoefler , Luca Benini

The tensor notation used in several areas of mathematics is a useful one, but it is not widely available to the functional programming community. In a practical sense, the (embedded) domain-specific languages (DSLs) that are currently in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jean-Philippe Bernardy , Patrik Jansson

Modern Deep Learning (DL) models have grown to sizes requiring massive clusters of specialized, high-end nodes to train. Designing such clusters to maximize both performance and utilization--to amortize their steep cost--is a challenging…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Divya Kiran Kadiyala , Saeed Rashidi , Taekyung Heo , Abhimanyu Rajeshkumar Bambhaniya , Tushar Krishna , Alexandros Daglis

Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) increase programmer productivity and provide high performance. Their targeted abstractions allow scientists to express problems at a high level, providing rich details that optimizing compilers can exploit…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-10 George Bisbas , Anton Lydike , Emilien Bauer , Nick Brown , Mathieu Fehr , Lawrence Mitchell , Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal , Maurice Jamieson , Paul H. J. Kelly , Michel Steuwer , Tobias Grosser

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

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

Despite significant investment in software infrastructure, machine learning systems, runtimes and compilers do not compose properly. We propose a new design aiming at providing unprecedented degrees of modularity, composability and…

Domain-specific languages raise the level of abstraction in software development. While it is evident that programmers can more easily reason about very high-level programs, the same holds for compilers only if the compiler has an accurate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-09-06 Tiark Rompf , Arvind K. Sujeeth , HyoukJoong Lee , Kevin J. Brown , Hassan Chafi , Martin Odersky , Kunle Olukotun