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To exploit both memory locality and the full performance potential of highly tuned kernels, dense linear algebra libraries such as LAPACK commonly implement operations as blocked algorithms. However, to achieve next-to-optimal performance…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Elmar Peise , Paolo Bientinesi

Compilers convert between representations -- usually, from higher-level, human writable code to lower-level, machine-readable code. A compiler backend is the portion of the compiler containing optimizations and code generation routines for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Gus Henry Smith

Modern sensors generate rich, high-fidelity data, yet applications operating on wearable or remote sensing devices remain constrained by bandwidth and power budgets. Standardized codecs such as JPEG and MPEG achieve efficient trade-offs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Dan Jacobellis , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar

Inspired by the ConvNets with structured hidden representations, we propose a Tensor-based Neural Network, TCNN. Different from ConvNets, TCNNs are composed of structured neurons rather than scalar neurons, and the basic operation is neuron…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Zhenhua Chen , David Crandall

High-performance micro-kernels must fully exploit today's diverse and specialized hardware to deliver peak performance to DNNs. While higher-level optimizations for DNNs are offered by numerous compilers (e.g., MLIR, TVM, OpenXLA),…

Tensor algebra finds applications in various domains, and these applications, especially when accelerated on spatial hardware accelerators, can deliver high performance and low power. Spatial hardware accelerator exhibits complex design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Liancheng Jia , Zizhang Luo , Liqiang Lu , Yun Liang

This paper proposes an adaptive neural-compilation framework to address the problem of efficient program learning. Traditional code optimisation strategies used in compilers are based on applying pre-specified set of transformations that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Rudy Bunel , Alban Desmaison , Pushmeet Kohli , Philip H. S. Torr , M. Pawan Kumar

Agentic systems, AI architectures that autonomously execute multi-step workflows to achieve complex goals, are often built using repeated large language model (LLM) calls for closed-set decision tasks such as routing, shortlisting, gating,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ido Levy , Eilam Shapira , Yinon Goldshtein , Avi Yaeli , Nir Mashkif , Segev Shlomov

Tensor algebra lies at the core of computational science and machine learning. Due to its high usage, entire libraries exist dedicated to improving its performance. Conventional tensor algebra performance boosts focus on algorithmic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Sathvik Redrouthu , Rishi Athavale

Most large multimodal models (LMMs) are implemented by feeding visual tokens as a sequence into the first layer of a large language model (LLM). The resulting architecture is simple but significantly increases computation and memory costs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Lingchen Meng , Jianwei Yang , Rui Tian , Xiyang Dai , Zuxuan Wu , Jianfeng Gao , Yu-Gang Jiang

The growing demand for low-latency, energy-efficient inference in large language models (LLMs) has catalyzed interest in heterogeneous architectures. While GPUs remain dominant, they are poorly suited for integration with emerging…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Ryan Tomich , Zhizhen Zhong , Dirk Englund

Sparse tensors are rapidly becoming critical components of modern deep learning workloads. However, developing high-performance sparse operators can be difficult and tedious, and existing vendor libraries cannot satisfy the escalating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Zihao Ye , Ruihang Lai , Junru Shao , Tianqi Chen , Luis Ceze

WebAssembly enables near-native execution in web applications and is increasingly adopted for tasks that demand high performance and robust security. However, its assembly-like syntax, implicit stack machine, and low-level data types make…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Weike Fang , Zhejian Zhou , Junzhou He , Weihang Wang

Porting state of the art deep learning algorithms to resource constrained compute platforms (e.g. VR, AR, wearables) is extremely challenging. We propose a fast, compact, and accurate model for convolutional neural networks that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Hessam Bagherinezhad , Mohammad Rastegari , Ali Farhadi

This paper shows how to optimize sparse tensor algebraic expressions by introducing temporary tensors, called workspaces, into the resulting loop nests. We develop a new intermediate language for tensor operations called concrete index…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Fredrik Kjolstad , Willow Ahrens , Shoaib Kamil , Saman Amarasinghe

Irregular embedding lookups are a critical bottleneck in recommender models, sparse large language models, and graph learning models. In this paper, we first demonstrate that, by offloading these lookups to specialized access units,…

With the widening gap between compute and memory operation latencies, data movement optimizations have become increasingly important for DNN compilation. Current optimizations such as layout transformations and operator fusion only target a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Muyan Hu , Ahan Gupta , Jiachen Yuan , Vima Gupta , Taeksang Kim , Xin Xu , Janardhan Kulkarni , Ofer Dekel , Vikram Adve , Charith Mendis

The rapidly-changing deep learning landscape presents a unique opportunity for building inference accelerators optimized for specific datacenter-scale workloads. We propose Full-stack Accelerator Search Technique (FAST), a hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Dan Zhang , Safeen Huda , Ebrahim Songhori , Kartik Prabhu , Quoc Le , Anna Goldie , Azalia Mirhoseini

The proliferation of high-throughput sequencing machines ensures rapid generation of up to billions of short nucleotide fragments in a short period of time. This massive amount of sequence data can quickly overwhelm today's storage and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Subho S. Banerjee , Mohamed El-Hadedy , Jong Bin Lim , Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk , Deming Chen , Steve Lumetta , Ravishankar K. Iyer

In this paper, we present Hexagon-MLIR,an open-source compilation stack that targets Qualcomm Hexagon Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and provides unified support for lowering Triton kernels and PyTorch models . Built using the MLIR framework,…