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Efficient mixed-precision matrix multiply accumulate (MMA) operations are critical for accelerating deep learning workloads on GPGPUs. However, existing open-source dot product implementations for Tensor Cores rely on discrete arithmetic…

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Tensor networks are a class of algorithms aimed at reducing the computational complexity of high-dimensional problems. They are used in an increasing number of applications, from quantum simulations to machine learning. Exploiting data…

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This work presents a GPU thread mapping approach that allows doing fast parallel stencil-like computations on discrete fractals using their compact representation. The intuition behind is to employ two GPU tensor-core accelerated thread…

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We have repurposed Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), application-specific chips developed for machine learning, into large-scale dense linear algebra supercomputers. The TPUs' fast inter-core interconnects (ICI)s, physically…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have seen extensive application in domains such as social networks, bioinformatics, and recommendation systems. However, the irregularity and sparsity of graph data challenge traditional computing methods, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ka Wai Wu

General-purpose Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental kernel in scientific computing and deep learning. The emergence of new matrix computation units such as Tensor Cores (TCs) brings more opportunities for SpMM…

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We use TensorNetwork [C. Roberts et al., arXiv: 1905.01330], a recently developed API for performing tensor network contractions using accelerated backends such as TensorFlow, to implement an optimization algorithm for the Multi-scale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 Martin Ganahl , Ashley Milsted , Stefan Leichenauer , Jack Hidary , Guifre Vidal

As GPU architectures rapidly evolve to meet the growing demands of exascale computing and machine learning, the performance implications of architectural innovations remain poorly understood across diverse workloads. NVIDIA Blackwell (B200)…

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Most research in quantum computing today is performed against simulations of quantum computers rather than true quantum computers. Simulating a quantum computer entails implementing all of the unitary operators corresponding to the quantum…

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Modern GPUs are equipped with tensor cores (TCs) that are commonly used for matrix multiplication in artificial intelligence workloads. However, because they have high computational throughput, they can lead to significant performance gains…

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Tensor processing units (TPUs) are one of the most well-known machine learning (ML) accelerators utilized at large scale in data centers as well as in tiny ML applications. TPUs offer several improvements and advantages over conventional ML…

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Tensor accelerators now represent a growing share of compute resources in modern CPUs and GPUs. However, they are hard to program, leading developers to use vendor-provided kernel libraries that support tensor accelerators. As a result, the…

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Despite foreseeing tremendous speedups over conventional deep neural networks, the performance advantage of binarized neural networks (BNNs) has merely been showcased on general-purpose processors such as CPUs and GPUs. In fact, due to…

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Recent advances in reprogrammable hardware (e.g., FPGAs) and memory technology (e.g., DDR4, HBM) promise to solve performance problems inherent to graph processing like irregular memory access patterns on traditional hardware (e.g., CPU).…

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With the growing significance of graphs as an effective representation of data in numerous applications, efficient graph analysis using modern machine learning is receiving a growing level of attention. Deep learning approaches often…

In 2019, the rapid rate at which GPU manufacturers refresh their designs, coupled with their reluctance to disclose microarchitectural details, is still a hurdle for those software designers who want to extract the highest possible…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Zhe Jia , Marco Maggioni , Jeffrey Smith , Daniele Paolo Scarpazza

We present a second-order recursive Fermi-operator expansion scheme using mixed precision floating point operations to perform electronic structure calculations using tensor core units. A performance of over 100 teraFLOPs is achieved for…

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

Sparse Matrix-matrix Multiplication (SpMM) and Sampled Dense-dense Matrix Multiplication (SDDMM) are important sparse operators in scientific computing and deep learning. Tensor Core Units (TCUs) enhance modern accelerators with superior…

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