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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…

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Recent years have seen considerable work on compiling sparse tensor algebra expressions. This paper addresses a shortcoming in that work, namely how to generate efficient code (in time and space) that scatters values into a sparse result…

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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…

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Sparse tensor operations are increasingly important in diverse applications such as social networks, deep learning, diagnosis, crime, and review analysis. However, a major obstacle in sparse tensor research is the lack of large-scale sparse…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Tugba Torun , Ameer Taweel , Didem Unat

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

Large language models have high compute, latency, and memory requirements. While specialized accelerators such as GPUs and TPUs typically run these workloads, CPUs are more widely available and consume less energy. Accelerating LLMs with…

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…

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Deploying large language models (LLMs) on edge platforms is challenged by their high computational and memory demands. Although recent low-bit quantization methods (e.g., BitNet, DeepSeek) compress weights to as little as 1.58 bits with…

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There is a growing interest in custom spatial accelerators for machine learning applications. These accelerators employ a spatial array of processing elements (PEs) interacting via custom buffer hierarchies and networks-on-chip. The…

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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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Sparse tensor programs are essential in deep learning and graph analytics, driving the need for optimized processing. To meet this demand, specialized hardware accelerators are being developed. Optimizing these programs for accelerators is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chamika Sudusinghe , Gerasimos Gerogiannis , Damitha Lenadora , Charles Block , Josep Torrellas , Charith Mendis

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

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

The tensor programming abstraction is a foundational paradigm which allows users to write high performance programs via a high-level imperative interface. Recent work on sparse tensor compilers has extended this paradigm to sparse tensors…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Kyle Deeds , Willow Ahrens , Magda Balazinska , Dan Suciu

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

Sparse tensors are rapidly becoming critical components of modern deep learning workloads. However, developing high-performance sparse operators can be difficult and tedious, and existing vendor libraries cannot satisfy the escalating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Zihao Ye , Ruihang Lai , Junru Shao , Tianqi Chen , Luis Ceze

Specialized accelerators for tensor-operations, such as blocked-matrix operations and multi-dimensional convolutions, have been emerged as powerful architecture choices for high-performance Deep-Learning computing. The rapid development of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Dionysios Diamantopoulos , Burkhard Ringlein , Mitra Purandare , Gagandeep Singh , Christoph Hagleitner

Tensor decomposition (TD) is essential for analyzing high-dimensional sparse data, yet its irregular computations and memory-access patterns pose major performance challenges on modern parallel processors. Prior works rely on…

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