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As parallel computing trends towards the exascale, scientific data produced by high-fidelity simulations are growing increasingly massive. For instance, a simulation on a three-dimensional spatial grid with 512 points per dimension that…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Woody Austin , Grey Ballard , Tamara G. Kolda

Training wide and deep neural networks (DNNs) require large amounts of storage resources such as memory because the intermediate activation data must be saved in the memory during forward propagation and then restored for backward…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Sian Jin , Chengming Zhang , Xintong Jiang , Yunhe Feng , Hui Guan , Guanpeng Li , Shuaiwen Leon Song , Dingwen Tao

There are several factorizations of multi-dimensional tensors into lower-dimensional components, known as `tensor networks'. We consider the popular `tensor-train' (TT) format and ask: How efficiently can we compute a low-rank approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Melven Röhrig-Zöllner , Jonas Thies , Achim Basermann

Tensors play a vital role in machine learning (ML) and often exhibit properties best explored while maintaining high-order. Efficiently performing ML computations requires taking advantage of sparsity, but generalized hardware support is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Gabriel Kulp , Andrew Ensinger , Lizhong Chen

Tensor completion refers to the task of estimating the missing data from an incomplete measurement or observation, which is a core problem frequently arising from the areas of big data analysis, computer vision, and network engineering. Due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Chenjian Pan , Chen Ling , Hongjin He , Liqun Qi , Yanwei Xu

Data-parallel SGD is the de facto algorithm for distributed optimization, especially for large scale machine learning. Despite its merits, communication bottleneck is one of its persistent issues. Most compression schemes to alleviate this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Ashok Vardhan Makkuva , Marco Bondaschi , Thijs Vogels , Martin Jaggi , Hyeji Kim , Michael C. Gastpar

Deep learning models with convolutional and recurrent networks are now ubiquitous and analyze massive amounts of audio, image, video, text and graph data, with applications in automatic translation, speech-to-text, scene understanding,…

Tensor accelerators have gained popularity because they provide a cheap and efficient solution for speeding up computational-expensive tasks in Deep Learning and, more recently, in other Scientific Computing applications. However, since…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Paolo Sylos Labini , Massimo Bernaschi , Francesco Silvestri , Flavio Vella

Deep learning (DL) compilers rely on cost models and auto-tuning to optimize tensor programs for target hardware. However, existing approaches depend on large offline datasets, incurring high collection costs and offering suboptimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chaoyao Shen , Linfeng Jiang , Yixian Shen , Tao Xu , Guoqing Li , Anuj Pathania , Andy D. Pimentel , Meng Zhang

High performance dense linear algebra (DLA) libraries often rely on a general matrix multiply (Gemm) kernel that is implemented using assembly or with vector intrinsics. In particular, the real-valued Gemm kernels provide the overwhelming…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Richard Michael Veras , Tze Meng Low , Tyler Michael Smith , Robert van de Geijn , Franz Franchetti

This paper introduces a new mathematical framework for analysis and optimization of tensor expressions within an enclosing loop. Tensors are multi-dimensional arrays of values. They are common in high performance computing (HPC) and machine…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Javed Absar , Samarth Narang , Muthu Baskaran

Sparse tensor computing is a core computational part of numerous applications in areas such as data science, graph processing, and scientific computing. Sparse tensors offer the potential of skipping unnecessary computations caused by zero…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Midia Reshadi , David Gregg

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) are renowned for their impressive generative performance; however, they are significantly constrained by considerable computational costs due to the quadratic complexity in self-attention and the extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Jiasheng Tang , Fan Wang , Yi Yang

This work proposes a compilation flow using open-source compiler passes to build a framework to achieve ninja performance from a generic linear algebra high-level abstraction. We demonstrate this flow with a proof-of-concept MLIR project…

Deep Learning (DL) acceleration support in CPUs has recently gained a lot of traction, with several companies (Arm, Intel, IBM) announcing products with specialized matrix engines accessible via GEMM instructions. CPUs are pervasive and…

Learned Sparse Retrieval (LSR) has traditionally focused on small-scale encoder-only transformer architectures. With the advent of large-scale pre-trained language models, their capability to generate sparse representations for retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Jingfen Qiao , Thong Nguyen , Evangelos Kanoulas , Andrew Yates

Sparse matrices and tensors are ubiquitous throughout multiple subfields of computing. The widespread usage of sparse data has inspired many in-memory and on-disk storage formats, but the only widely adopted storage specifications are the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Benjamin Brock , Willow Ahrens , Hameer Abbasi , Timothy A. Davis , Juni Kim , James Kitchen , Spencer Patty , Isaac Virshup , Erik Welch

We present LoopStack, a domain specific compiler stack for tensor operations, composed of a frontend, LoopTool, and an efficient optimizing code generator, LoopNest. This stack enables us to compile entire neural networks and generate code…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Bram Wasti , José Pablo Cambronero , Benoit Steiner , Hugh Leather , Aleksandar Zlateski

Tensor networks are a class of algorithms aimed at reducing the computational complexity of high-dimensional problems. They are used in an increasing number of applications, from quantum simulations to machine learning. Exploiting data…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Melven Röhrig-Zöllner , Manuel Joey Becklas , Jonas Thies , Achim Basermann

Tensor operations are surging as the computational building blocks for a variety of scientific simulations and the development of high-performance kernels for such operations is known to be a challenging task. While for operations on one-…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Elmar Peise , Diego Fabregat-Traver , Paolo Bientinesi