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Recent research has focused on accelerating stencil computations by exploiting emerging hardware like Tensor Cores. To leverage these accelerators, the stencil operation must be transformed to matrix multiplications. However, this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Qiqi GU , Chenpeng Wu , Heng Shi , Jianguo Yao

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

Numerous code optimization techniques, including loop nest optimizations, have been developed over the last four decades. Loop optimization techniques transform loop nests to improve the performance of the code on a target architecture,…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Aniket Shivam , Neftali Watkinson , Alexandru Nicolau , David Padua , Alexander V. Veidenbaum

Although code generation for Convolution Neural Network (CNN) models has been extensively studied, performing efficient data slicing and parallelization for highly-constrai\-ned Multicore Neural Processor Units (NPUs) is still a challenging…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Rafael Sousa , Marcio Pereira , Yongin Kwon , Taeho Kim , Namsoon Jung , Chang Soo Kim , Michael Frank , Guido Araujo

Stencil computation constitutes a cornerstone of scientific computing, serving as a critical kernel in domains ranging from fluid dynamics to weather simulation. While stencil computations are conventionally regarded as memory-bound and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Qiqi Gu , Chenpeng Wu , Heng Shi , Jianguo Yao , Haibing Guan

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

Leveraging spatial sparsity has become a popular approach to accelerate 3D computer graphics applications. Spatially sparse data structures and efficient sparse kernels (such as parallel stencil operations on active voxels), are key to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Yuanming Hu , Mingkuan Xu , Ye Kuang , Frédo Durand

Modern tensor applications, especially foundation models and generative AI applications require multiple input modalities (both vision and language), which increases the demand for flexible accelerator architecture. Existing frameworks…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yujun Lin , Zhekai Zhang , Song Han

Symmetric and sparse tensors arise naturally in many domains including linear algebra, statistics, physics, chemistry, and graph theory. Symmetric tensors are equal to their transposes, so in the $n$-dimensional case we can save up to a…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Radha Patel , Willow Ahrens , Saman Amarasinghe

The real-world effectiveness of deep neural networks often depends on their latency, thereby necessitating optimization techniques that can reduce a model's inference time while preserving its performance. One popular approach is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jakob Hartmann , Guoliang He , Eiko Yoneki

The analysis of high-dimensional sparse data is becoming increasingly popular in many important domains. However, real-world sparse tensors are challenging to process due to their irregular shapes and data distributions. We propose the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Ahmed E. Helal , Jan Laukemann , Fabio Checconi , Jesmin Jahan Tithi , Teresa Ranadive , Fabrizio Petrini , Jeewhan Choi

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

Tensor computations overwhelm traditional general-purpose computing devices due to the large amounts of data and operations of the computations. They call for a holistic solution composed of both hardware acceleration and software mapping.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Qingcheng Xiao , Size Zheng , Bingzhe Wu , Pengcheng Xu , Xuehai Qian , Yun Liang

With the advent of more powerful Quantum Computers, the need for larger Quantum Simulations has boosted. As the amount of resources grows exponentially with size of the target system Tensor Networks emerge as an optimal framework with which…

The last few years have seen gigantic leaps in algorithms and systems to support efficient deep learning inference. Pruning and quantization algorithms can now consistently compress neural networks by an order of magnitude. For a compressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Ziheng Wang

We introduce SpDISTAL, a compiler for sparse tensor algebra that targets distributed systems. SpDISTAL combines separate descriptions of tensor algebra expressions, sparse data structures, data distribution, and computation distribution.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Rohan Yadav , Alex Aiken , Fredrik Kjolstad

In this paper, we develop software for decomposing sparse tensors that is portable to and performant on a variety of multicore, manycore, and GPU computing architectures. The result is a single code whose performance matches optimized…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Eric Phipps , Tamara G. Kolda

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are used in many embedded applications, from industrial robotics and automation systems to biometric identification on mobile devices. State-of-the-art classification is typically achieved by large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Yuan Wen , Andrew Anderson , Valentin Radu , Michael F. P. O'Boyle , David Gregg

Sparse Matricized Tensor Times Khatri-Rao Product (spMTTKRP) is the most time-consuming compute kernel in sparse tensor decomposition. In this paper, we introduce a novel algorithm to minimize the execution time of spMTTKRP across all modes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Sasindu Wijeratne , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

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