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Beamforming is a well-known technique to combine signals from multiple sensors. It has a wide range of application domains. This paper introduces the Tensor-Core Beamformer: a generic, optimized beamformer library that harnesses the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Leon Oostrum , Bram Veenboer , Ronald Rook , Michael Brown , Pieter Kruizinga , John W. Romein

Finding the convex hull is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. Quickhull is a fast algorithm for finding convex hulls. In this paper, we present VQhull, a fast parallel implementation of Quickhull that exploits vector…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Thomas Koopman , Jordy Aaldering , Bernard van Gastel , Sven-Bodo Scholz

Operator fusion, a key technique to improve data locality and alleviate GPU memory bandwidth pressure, often fails to extend to the fusion of multiple compute-intensive operators due to saturated computation throughput. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Zheng Zhang , Donglin Yang , Xiaobo Zhou , Dazhao Cheng

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of various parallel optimization methods for Kernel Support Vector Machines on multicore CPUs and GPUs. In particular, we provide the first comparison of algorithms with explicit and implicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Stephen Tyree , Jacob R. Gardner , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Kunal Agrawal , John Tran

Gabor wavelet is an essential tool for image analysis and computer vision tasks. Local structure tensors with multiple scales are widely used in local feature extraction. Our research indicates that the current corner detection method based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Huaqing Wang , Junfeng Jing , Ning Li , Weichuan Zhang , Chao Liu

Sparse-dense linear algebra is crucial in many domains, but challenging to handle efficiently on CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators alike; multiplications with sparse formats like CSR and CSF require indirect memory lookups. In this work, we…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Paul Scheffler , Florian Zaruba , Fabian Schuiki , Torsten Hoefler , Luca Benini

Convolutional neural networks are paramount in image and signal processing including the relevant classification and training tasks alike and constitute for the majority of machine learning compute demand today. With convolution operations…

We report experimentally and in theory on the detection of edge information in digital images using ultrafast spiking optical artificial neurons towards convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In tandem with traditional convolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Joshua Robertson , Yahui Zhang , Matej Hejda , Andrew Adair , Julian Bueno , Shuiying Xiang , Antonio Hurtado

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have sparse, event driven processing that can leverage neuromorphic applications. In this work, we introduce a multi-threading kernel that enables neuromorphic applications running at the edge, meaning they…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Lars Niedermeier , Vyom Shah , Jeffrey L. Krichmar

Real-time remote sensing applications like search and rescue missions, military target detection, environmental monitoring, hazard prevention and other time-critical applications require onboard real time processing capabilities or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Mahmoud Hossam

The graphlet kernel is a classical method in graph classification. It however suffers from a high computation cost due to the isomorphism test it includes. As a generic proxy, and in general at the cost of losing some information, this test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Hashem Ghanem , Nicolas Keriven , Nicolas Tremblay

This paper describes the transformation of a traditional in-silico classification network into an optical fully convolutional neural network with high-resolution feature maps and kernels. When using the free-space 4f system to accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Riad Ibadulla , Thomas M. Chen , Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro

In computer vision, superpixels have been widely used as an effective way to reduce the number of image primitives for subsequent processing. But only a few attempts have been made to incorporate them into deep neural networks. One main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Fengting Yang , Qian Sun , Hailin Jin , Zihan Zhou

Improving GPU kernel efficiency is crucial for advancing AI systems. Recent work has explored leveraging large language models (LLMs) for GPU kernel generation and optimization. However, existing LLM-based kernel optimization pipelines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Qitong Sun , Jun Han , Tianlin Li , Zhe Tang , Sheng Chen , Fei Yang , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu , Yang Liu

The 3D point cloud perception has emerged as a fundamental role for a wide range of applications. In particular, with the rapid development of neural networks, the voxel-based networks attract great attention due to their excellent…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xipeng Lin , Shanshi Huang , Hongwu Jiang

Convolutional gridding is a processor-intensive step in interferometric imaging. While it is possible to use graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate this operation, existing methods use only a fraction of the available flops. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Bruce Merry

Leveraging spatial sparsity has become a popular approach to accelerate 3D computer graphics applications. Spatially sparse data structures and efficient sparse kernels (such as parallel stencil operations on active voxels), are key to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Yuanming Hu , Mingkuan Xu , Ye Kuang , Frédo Durand

This paper describes a parallel implementation of Viterbi decoding algorithm. Viterbi decoder is widely used in many state-of-the-art wireless systems. The proposed solution optimizes both throughput and memory usage by applying…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Alireza Mohammadidoost , Matin Hashemi

Many problems in real life can be converted to combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) on graphs, that is to find a best node state configuration or a network structure such that the designed objective function is optimized under some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Jing Liu , Fei Gao , Jiang Zhang

Deep Neural Networks have now achieved state-of-the-art results in a wide range of tasks including image classification, object detection and so on. However, they are both computation consuming and memory intensive, making them difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Xianda Xu , Marco Pedersoli