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Sparse Matrix-Matrix multiplication is a key kernel that has applications in several domains such as scientific computing and graph analysis. Several algorithms have been studied in the past for this foundational kernel. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Mehmet Deveci , Christian Trott , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam

To operate effectively in the real world, agents should be able to act from high-dimensional raw sensory input such as images and achieve diverse goals across long time-horizons. Current deep reinforcement and imitation learning methods can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Scott Emmons , Ajay Jain , Michael Laskin , Thanard Kurutach , Pieter Abbeel , Deepak Pathak

We develop a family of parallel algorithms for the SpKAdd operation that adds a collection of k sparse matrices. SpKAdd is a much needed operation in many applications including distributed memory sparse matrix-matrix multiplication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Md Taufique Hussain , Guttu Sai Abhishek , Aydin Buluç , Ariful Azad

We present a novel, practical approach to speed up sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMVM) on GPUs. The novel key idea is to apply lossless entropy coding to further compress the sparse matrix when stored in one of the commonly…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Emil Schätzle , Tommaso Pegolotti , Markus Püschel

We propose the Sparse Abstract Machine (SAM), an abstract machine model for targeting sparse tensor algebra to reconfigurable and fixed-function spatial dataflow accelerators. SAM defines a streaming dataflow abstraction with sparse…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Olivia Hsu , Maxwell Strange , Ritvik Sharma , Jaeyeon Won , Kunle Olukotun , Joel Emer , Mark Horowitz , Fredrik Kjolstad

Sparse matrix multiplication is an important kernel for large-scale graph processing and other data-intensive applications. In this paper, we implement various asynchronous, RDMA-based sparse times dense (SpMM) and sparse times sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Benjamin Brock , Aydın Buluç , Katherine Yelick

High-performance sparse matrix-matrix (SpMM) multiplication is paramount for science and industry, as the ever-increasing sizes of data prohibit using dense data structures. Yet, existing hardware, such as Tensor Cores (TC), is ill-suited…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Patrik Okanovic , Grzegorz Kwasniewski , Paolo Sylos Labini , Maciej Besta , Flavio Vella , Torsten Hoefler

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

Generalized Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpGEMM) is a ubiquitous task in various engineering and scientific applications. However, inner product based SpGENN introduces redundant input fetches for mismatched nonzero operands, while…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zhekai Zhang , Hanrui Wang , Song Han , William J. Dally

The parallel simulation of Spiking Neural P systems is mainly based on a matrix representation, where the graph inherent to the neural model is encoded in an adjacency matrix. The simulation algorithm is based on a matrix-vector…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Javier Hernández-Tello , Miguel Ángel Martínez-del-Amor , David Orellana-Martín , Francis George C. Cabarle

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) is a fundamental operation in graph computing and analytics. However, the irregularity of real-world graphs poses significant challenges to achieving efficient SpMM operation for graph data on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zhonggen Li , Xiangyu Ke , Yifan Zhu , Yunjun Gao , Yaofeng Tu

Sparse linear iterative solvers are essential for many large-scale simulations. Much of the runtime of these solvers is often spent in the implicit evaluation of matrix polynomials via a sequence of sparse matrix-vector products. A variety…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Christie Alappat , Jonas Thies , Georg Hager , Holger Fehske , Gerhard Wellein

Inspired by the developments in quantum computing, building domain-specific classical hardware to solve computationally hard problems has received increasing attention. Here, by introducing systematic sparsification techniques, we…

The main objective of this work consists in analyzing sub-structuring method for the parallel solution of sparse linear systems with matrices arising from the discretization of partial differential equations such as finite element, finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Abal-Kassim Cheik Ahamed , Frédéric Magoulès

Sparse, irregular graphs show up in various applications like linear algebra, machine learning, engineering simulations, robotic control, etc. These graphs have a high degree of parallelism, but their execution on parallel threads of modern…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Nimish Shah , Wannes Meert , Marian Verhelst

Sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a critical operation in numerous fields, including scientific computing, graph analytics, and deep learning. These applications exploit the sparsity of matrices to reduce storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Sanjali Yadav , Bahar Asgari

In recent years, many accelerators have been proposed to efficiently process sparse tensor algebra applications (e.g., sparse neural networks). However, these proposals are single points in a large and diverse design space. The lack of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Yannan Nellie Wu , Po-An Tsai , Angshuman Parashar , Vivienne Sze , Joel S. Emer

Multiplication of a sparse matrix to a dense matrix (SpDM) is widely used in many areas like scientific computing and machine learning. However, existing works under-look the performance optimization of SpDM on modern many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Shaohuai Shi , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Accelerators for sparse matrix multiplication are important components in emerging systems. In this paper, we study the main challenges of accelerating Sparse Matrix Multiplication (SpMM). For the situations that data is not stored in the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Pareesa Ameneh Golnari , Sharad Malik