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Sparse matrix multiplication (SpMM) is widely applied to numerous domains, such as graph processing, machine learning, and data analytics. However, inner product based SpMM induces redundant zero-element computing for mismatched nonzero…

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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…

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Multiplication of a sparse matrix to a dense matrix (SpDM) is widely used in many areas like scientific computing and machine learning. However, existing works under-look the performance optimization of SpDM on modern many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Shaohuai Shi , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Sparse matrix multiplication is an important kernel for large-scale graph processing and other data-intensive applications. In this paper, we implement various asynchronous, RDMA-based sparse times dense (SpMM) and sparse times sparse…

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Sparse Matrix-Matrix multiplication is a key kernel that has applications in several domains such as scientific computing and graph analysis. Several algorithms have been studied in the past for this foundational kernel. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Mehmet Deveci , Christian Trott , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam

Sparse general matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is an important and expensive computation primitive in many real-world applications. Due to SpGEMM's inherent irregularity and the vast diversity of its input matrices, developing…

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have become an important tool for a wide range of applications, from computer vision to natural language processing. However, the computational complexity of DNN…

Deep learning demonstrates effectiveness across a wide range of tasks. However, the dense and over-parameterized nature of these models results in significant resource consumption during deployment. In response to this issue, weight…

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Sparse matrix multiplication is traditionally performed in memory and scales to large matrices using the distributed memory of multiple nodes. In contrast, we scale sparse matrix multiplication beyond memory capacity by implementing sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Da Zheng , Disa Mhembere , Vince Lyzinski , Joshua Vogelstein , Carey E. Priebe , Randal Burns

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental computation in graph analytics, scientific simulation, and sparse deep learning workloads. However, the extreme irregularity of real-world sparse matrices prevents existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Aiying Li , Jingwei Sun , Han Li , Wence Ji , Guangzhong Sun

General Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpGEMM) has attracted much attention from researchers in graph analyzing, scientific computing, and deep learning. Many optimization techniques have been developed for different applications and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Jianhua Gao , Weixing Ji , Fangli Chang , Shiyu Han , Bingxin Wei , Zeming Liu , Yizhuo Wang

Many recent GPUs feature matrix multiplication engines (aka Tensor Core Units or TCUs) that perform small fixed-size matrix-matrix products at very high throughput. They have been used very effectively to speed up dense matrix-matrix…

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In recent years, Transformer-based language models have become the standard approach for natural language processing tasks. However, stringent throughput and latency requirements in industrial applications are limiting their adoption. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Haihao Shen , Hengyu Meng , Bo Dong , Zhe Wang , Ofir Zafrir , Yi Ding , Yu Luo , Hanwen Chang , Qun Gao , Ziheng Wang , Guy Boudoukh , Moshe Wasserblat

Sparse General Matrix Multiply (SpGEMM) is key for various High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications such as genomics and graph analytics. Using the semiring abstraction, many algorithms can be formulated as SpGEMM, allowing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Thomas McFarland , Julian Bellavita , Giulia Guidi

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

Fueled by the ability to mine real-world graph data, GNN applications have experienced phenomenal growth. Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a critical operator in GNNs. However, existing SpMM designs for GNNs struggle to adapt…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Lixing Zhang , Guanhua Ye , Hongzheng Li , Shigang Li , Yingxia Shao

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental kernel across scientific computing and machine learning. While prior work accelerates SpMM using Tensor Cores, no existing sparse kernel exploits the asynchronous features of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jie Liu , Huanzhi Pu , Zhiru Zhang

The growing demand for sparse tensor algebra (SpTA) in machine learning and big data has driven the development of various sparse tensor accelerators. However, most existing manually designed accelerators are limited to specific scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Boran Zhao , Haiming Zhai , Zihang Yuan , Hetian Liu , Tian Xia , Wenzhe Zhao , Pengju Ren

Iterative solutions of sparse linear systems and sparse eigenvalue problems have a fundamental role in vital fields of scientific research and engineering. The crucial computing kernel for such iterative solutions is the multiplication of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Thaha Mohammed , Rashid Mehmood

We propose different implementations of the sparse matrix--dense vector multiplication (\spmv{}) for finite fields and rings $\Zb/m\Zb$. We take advantage of graphic card processors (GPU) and multi-core architectures. Our aim is to improve…

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