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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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Zhaoyang Du , Yijin Guan , Tianchan Guan , Dimin Niu , Linyong Huang , Hongzhong Zheng , Yuan Xie

Tensor algebra is a crucial component for data-intensive workloads such as machine learning and scientific computing. As the complexity of data grows, scientists often encounter a dilemma between the highly specialized dense tensor algebra…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Mahdi Ghorbani , Emilien Bauer , Tobias Grosser , Amir Shaikhha

This paper shows how to generate efficient tensor algebra code that compute on dynamic sparse tensors, which have sparsity structures that evolve over time. We propose a language for precisely specifying recursive, pointer-based data…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Stephen Chou , Saman Amarasinghe

As neural network model sizes have dramatically increased, so has the interest in various techniques to reduce their parameter counts and accelerate their execution. An active area of research in this field is sparsity - encouraging zero…

We address the problem of optimizing mixed sparse and dense tensor algebra in a compiler. We show that standard loop transformations, such as strip-mining, tiling, collapsing, parallelization and vectorization, can be applied to irregular…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Ryan Senanayake , Fredrik Kjolstad , Changwan Hong , Shoaib Kamil , Saman Amarasinghe

In this paper, we aim to introduce a new perspective when comparing highly parallelized algorithms on GPU: the energy consumption of the GPU. We give an analysis of the performance of linear algebra operations, including addition of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Abal-Kassim Cheik Ahamed , Alban Desmaison , Frederic Magoules

Sparse matrix-vector and matrix-matrix multiplication (SpMV and SpMM) are fundamental in both conventional (graph analytics, scientific computing) and emerging (sparse DNN, GNN) domains. Workload-balancing and parallel-reduction are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Guyue Huang , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (SPCA) is an important technique for high-dimensional data analysis, improving interpretability by imposing sparsity on principal components. However, existing methods often fail to simultaneously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Difei Cheng , Qiao Hu

Recommendation systems, social network analysis, medical imaging, and data mining often involve processing sparse high-dimensional data. Such high-dimensional data are naturally represented as tensors, and they cannot be efficiently…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Weiyun Jiang , Kaiqi Zhang , Colin Yu Lin , Feng Xing , Zheng Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved significant improvements in various domains. Sparse Matrix-Matrix multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental operator in GNNs, which performs a multiplication between a sparse matrix and a dense…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Guyue Huang , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang

Sparse matrix multiplication operators (i.e., SpMM and SDDMM) are widely used in deep learning and scientific computing. Modern accelerators are commonly equipped with Tensor Core Units (TCUs) and CUDA cores to accelerate sparse operators.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jinliang Shi , Shigang Li , Youxuan Xu , Xueying Wang , Rongtian Fu , Zhi Ma , Tong Wu

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

We consider the problem of sparse atomic optimization, where the notion of "sparsity" is generalized to meaning some linear combination of few atoms. The definition of atomic set is very broad; popular examples include the standard basis,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Thomas Zhang

Sparse tensor algebra computations have become important in many real-world applications like machine learning, scientific simulations, and data mining. Hence, automated code generation and performance optimizations for tensor algebra…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Adhitha Dias , Kirshanthan Sundararajah , Charitha Saumya , Milind Kulkarni

Top-k sparsification has recently been widely used to reduce the communication volume in distributed deep learning. However, due to the Sparse Gradient Accumulation (SGA) dilemma, the performance of top-k sparsification still has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Minjun Zhao , Yichen Yin , Yuren Mao , Qing Liu , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao

We introduce Stardust, a compiler that compiles sparse tensor algebra to reconfigurable dataflow architectures (RDAs). Stardust introduces new user-provided data representation and scheduling language constructs for mapping to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Olivia Hsu , Alexander Rucker , Tian Zhao , Kunle Olukotun , Fredrik Kjolstad

Sparse matrix multiplication is an important component of linear algebra computations. Implementing sparse matrix multiplication on an associative processor (AP) enables high level of parallelism, where a row of one matrix is multiplied in…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-05-23 L. Yavits , A. Morad , R. Ginosar

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is an essential linear algebra operation that dominates the computing cost in many scientific applications. Due to providing massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth, GPUs are commonly used to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Mina Ashoury , Mohammad Loni , Farshad Khunjush , Masoud Daneshtalab

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

Sparse linear algebra kernels play a critical role in numerous applications, covering from exascale scientific simulation to large-scale data analytics. Offloading linear algebra kernels on one GPU will no longer be viable in these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Jieyang Chen , Chenhao Xie , Jesun S Firoz , Jiajia Li , Shuaiwen Leon Song , Kevin Barker , Mark Raugas , Ang Li