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Dedicated tensor accelerators demonstrate the importance of linear algebra in modern applications. Such accelerators have the potential for impressive performance gains, but require programmers to rewrite code using vendor APIs - a barrier…

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,…

Numerical tensor calculus comprise basic tensor operations such as the entrywise addition and contraction of higher-order tensors. We present, TLib, flexible tensor framework with generic tensor functions and tensor classes that assists…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Cem Bassoy

Software packages like TensorFlow and PyTorch are designed to support linear algebra operations, and their speed and usability determine their success. However, by prioritising speed, they often neglect memory requirements. As a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Artem Artemev , Tilman Roeder , Mark van der Wilk

A \emph{tensor-relational} computation is a relational computation where individual tuples carry vectors, matrices, or higher-dimensional arrays. An advantage of tensor-relational computation is that the overall computation can be executed…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuxin Tang , Zhiyuan Xin , Zhimin Ding , Xinyu Yao , Daniel Bourgeois , Tirthak Patel , Chris Jermaine

Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are specialized hardware accelerators for deep learning developed by Google. This paper aims to explore TPUs in cloud and edge computing focusing on its applications in AI. We provide an overview of TPUs,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Diego Sanmartín Carrión , Vera Prohaska

The benchmark for computation is typically given as Turing computability; the ability for a computation to be performed by a Turing Machine. Many languages exploit (indirect) encodings of Turing Machines to demonstrate their ability to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Thomas Given-Wilson

The transformer is the most critical algorithm innovation of the Nature Language Processing (NLP) field in recent years. Unlike the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) models, Transformers can process on dimensions of sequence lengths in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jiarui Fang , Yang Yu , Chengduo Zhao , Jie Zhou

Practical applications of quantum computers require millions of physical qubits and it will be challenging for individual quantum processors to reach such qubit numbers. It is therefore timely to investigate the resource requirements of…

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The Tsetlin Machine (TM) is a novel machine learning algorithm with several distinct properties, including transparent inference and learning using hardware-near building blocks. Although numerous papers explore the TM empirically, many of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Lei Jiao , Xuan Zhang , Ole-Christoffer Granmo , K. Darshana Abeyrathna

Table question answering (TQA) focuses on answering questions based on tabular data. Developing TQA systems targets effective interaction with tabular data for tasks such as cell retrieval and data analysis. While recent work has leveraged…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Wei Zhou , Mohsen Mesgar , Heike Adel , Annemarie Friedrich

We present a Kokkos-accelerated implementation of the Moment Tensor Potential (MTP) for LAMMPS, designed to improve both computational performance and portability across CPUs and GPUs. This package introduces an optimized CPU…

The increasing demand for memory in hyperscale applications has led to memory becoming a large portion of the overall datacenter spend. The emergence of coherent interfaces like CXL enables main memory expansion and offers an efficient…

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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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Adam G. M. Lewis , Jackson Beall , Martin Ganahl , Markus Hauru , Shrestha Basu Mallick , Guifre Vidal

In this paper, we study the problem of optimizing a linear program whose variables are the answers to a conjunctive query. For this we propose the language LP(CQ) for specifying linear programs whose constraints and objective functions…

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We proposed Neural Enquirer as a neural network architecture to execute a natural language (NL) query on a knowledge-base (KB) for answers. Basically, Neural Enquirer finds the distributed representation of a query and then executes it on…

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Data on the web is naturally unindexed and decentralized. Centralizing web data, especially personal data, raises ethical and legal concerns. Yet, compared to centralized query approaches, decentralization-friendly alternatives such as Link…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Bryan-Elliott Tam , Ruben Taelman , Pieter Colpaert , Ruben Verborgh

Tabled Constraint Logic Programming is a powerful execution mechanism for dealing with Constraint Logic Programming without worrying about fixpoint computation. Various applications, e.g in the fields of program analysis and model checking,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-12-27 Tom Schrijvers , Bart Demoen , David S. Warren

Markov Decision Process (MDP) is the underlying model for optimal planning for decision-theoretic agents in stochastic environments. Although much research focuses on solving MDP problems both in tabular form or using factored…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Daniela Kuinchtner , Afonso Sales , Felipe Meneguzzi

Temporal Point Processes (TPPs) have been widely used for modeling event sequences on the Web, such as user reviews, social media posts, and online transactions. However, traditional TPP models often struggle to effectively incorporate the…

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