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The rapidly evolving landscape of AI and machine learning workloads has widened the gap between high-level domain operations and efficient hardware utilization. Achieving near-peak performance still demands deep hardware expertise-experts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Arun Thangamani , Md Asghar Ahmad Shahid , Adam Siemieniuk , Rolf Morel , Renato Golin , Alexander Heinecke

This report presents some early results on code generation targeting tensor cores on NVIDIA GPUs using the MLIR compiler infrastructure. The state-of-the-art in high-performance deep learning today is primarily driven by manually optimized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Navdeep Katel , Vivek Khandelwal , Uday Bondhugula

In scientific fields such as quantum computing, physics, chemistry, and machine learning, high dimensional data are typically represented using sparse tensors. Tensor contraction is a popular operation on tensors to exploit meaning or alter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Andrew Ensinger , Gabriel Kulp , Victor Agostinelli , Dennis Lyakhov , Lizhong Chen

Hardware architectures and machine learning (ML) libraries evolve rapidly. Traditional compilers often fail to generate high-performance code across the spectrum of new hardware offerings. To mitigate, engineers develop hand-tuned kernels…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Tim Zerrell , Jeremy Bruestle

We introduce a formal operational semantics that describes the fused execution of variable contraction problems, which compute indexed arithmetic over a semiring and generalize sparse and dense tensor algebra, relational algebra, and graph…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Scott Kovach , Fredrik Kjolstad

Modern research in code generators for dense linear algebra computations has shown the ability to produce optimized code with a performance which compares and often exceeds the one of state-of-the-art implementations by domain experts.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Lorenzo Chelini , Henrik Barthels , Paolo Bientinesi , Marcin Copik , Tobias Grosser , Daniele G. Spampinato

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…

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

In view of the KS-tensor complementarity problem, the sparse solution of this problem is studied. Due to the nonconvexity and noncontinuity of the l_0-norm, it is a NP hard problem to find the sparse solution of the KS-tensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Jingjing Sun , Shouqiang Du , Yuanyuan Chen , Yimin Wei

We take an information theoretic perspective on a classical sparse-sampling noisy linear model and present an analytical expression for the mutual information, which plays central role in a variety of communications/processing problems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Wasim Huleihel , Neri Merhav , Shlomo Shamai

Tensor algebra is essential for data-intensive workloads in various computational domains. Computational scientists face a trade-off between the specialization degree provided by dense tensor algebra and the algorithmic efficiency that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Mahdi Ghorbani , Mathieu Huot , Shideh Hashemian , Amir Shaikhha

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

Embedded systems become more and more widespread, especially autonomous ones, and clearly tend to be ubiquitous. In such systems, low-power and low-energy usage get ever more crucial. Furthermore, these issues also become paramount in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Olivier Zendra

In recent years, the fervent demand for computational power across various domains has prompted hardware manufacturers to introduce specialized computing hardware aimed at enhancing computational capabilities. Particularly, the utilization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Hongyaoxing Gu

We consider the problem of designing sparse sampling strategies for multidomain signals, which can be represented using tensors that admit a known multilinear decomposition. We leverage the multidomain structure of tensor signals and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Guillermo Ortiz-Jiménez , Mario Coutino , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Geert Leus

This paper shows how to build a sparse tensor algebra compiler that is agnostic to tensor formats (data layouts). We develop an interface that describes formats in terms of their capabilities and properties, and show how to build a modular…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Stephen Chou , Fredrik Kjolstad , Saman Amarasinghe

Scaling autoregressive large language models (LLMs) has driven unprecedented progress but comes with vast computational costs. In this work, we tackle these costs by leveraging unstructured sparsity within an LLM's feedforward layers, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Edoardo Cetin , Stefano Peluchetti , Emilio Castillo , Akira Naruse , Mana Murakami , Llion Jones

Sparse matrix operations involve a large number of zero operands which makes most of the operations redundant. The amount of redundancy magnifies when a matrix operation repeatedly executes on sparse data. Optimizing matrix operations for…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Barnali Basak , Uday P. Khedker , Supratim Biswas

As Large Language Models become integral to software development, with substantial portions of AI-suggested code entering production, understanding their internal correctness mechanisms becomes critical for safe deployment. We apply sparse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Kriz Tahimic , Charibeth Cheng

Sparse Tensor Compilers (STCs) have emerged as critical infrastructure for optimizing high-dimensional data analytics and machine learning workloads. The STCs must synthesize complex, irregular control flow for various compressed storage…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kabilan Mahathevan , Yining Zhang , Muhammad Ali Gulzar , Kirshanthan Sundararajah