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Lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM) are an important part of current computational fluid dynamics (CFD). They allow easy implementations and boundary handling. However, competitive time to solution not only depends on the choice of a reasonable…
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We derive the partial differential equation (PDE) to which the pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann method (P-LBM) converges under diffusive scaling, providing a rigorous basis for its consistency analysis. By establishing a direct link…
Block-wise diffusion language models (DLMs) generate multiple tokens in any order, offering a promising alternative to the autoregressive decoding pipeline. However, they still remain bottlenecked by memory-bound attention in long-context…
Self-attention has recently been adopted for a wide range of sequence modeling problems. Despite its effectiveness, self-attention suffers from quadratic compute and memory requirements with respect to sequence length. Successful approaches…
Sparse tensors appear in many large-scale applications with multidimensional and sparse data. While multidimensional sparse data often need to be processed on manycore processors, attempts to develop highly-optimized GPU-based…
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The evolution of large language models (LLMs) towards applications with ultra-long contexts faces challenges posed by the high computational and memory costs of the Transformer architecture. While existing sparse and linear attention…