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In this paper, we propose an optimization selection methodology for the ubiquitous sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) kernel. We propose two models that attempt to identify the major performance bottleneck of the kernel for every…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Nectarios Koziris

Exact recovery of a sparse solution for an underdetermined system of linear equations implies full search among all possible subsets of the dictionary, which is computationally intractable, while l1 minimization will do the job when a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Mohsen Joneidi , Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Alireza Zaeemzadeh , Nazanin Rahnavard

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

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

Programming high-performance sparse GPU kernels is notoriously difficult, requiring both substantial effort and deep expertise. Sparse compilers aim to simplify this process, but existing systems fall short in two key ways. First, they are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jaeyeon Won , Willow Ahrens , Joel S. Emer , Saman Amarasinghe

Sparse matrices and linear algebra are at the heart of scientific simulations. More than 70 sparse matrix storage formats have been developed over the years, targeting a wide range of hardware architectures and matrix types. Each format is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Chris Stylianou , Michele Weiland

Researchers are increasingly incorporating numeric high-order data, i.e., numeric tensors, within their practice. Just like the matrix/vector (MV) paradigm, the development of multi-purpose, but high-performance, sparse data structures and…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Adam P. Harrison , Dileepan Joseph

The training of graph neural networks (GNNs) is extremely time consuming because sparse graph-based operations are hard to be accelerated by hardware. Prior art explores trading off the computational precision to reduce the time complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zirui Liu , Shengyuan Chen , Kaixiong Zhou , Daochen Zha , Xiao Huang , Xia Hu

Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (SpMV) is the cornerstone in many iterative workloads, including large-scale graph analytics and sparse iterative solvers. Accelerating SpMV on real-world graphs remains challenging due to highly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Qi Zhang , Zhengan Yao , Zhenglu Jiang , Zan-Bo Zhang

The importance of general matrix multiplication (GEMM) is motivating new instruction set extensions for multiplying dense matrices in almost all contemporary ISAs, and these extensions are often implemented using high-performance systolic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tuan Ta , Joshua Randall , Christopher Batten

Applying machine learning techniques to the quickly growing data in science and industry requires highly-scalable algorithms. Large datasets are most commonly processed "data parallel" distributed across many nodes. Each node's contribution…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Cedric Renggli , Saleh Ashkboos , Mehdi Aghagolzadeh , Dan Alistarh , Torsten Hoefler

Sparse tensor computing is a core computational part of numerous applications in areas such as data science, graph processing, and scientific computing. Sparse tensors offer the potential of skipping unnecessary computations caused by zero…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Midia Reshadi , David Gregg

Multiplication of a sparse matrix with another (dense or sparse) matrix is a fundamental operation that captures the computational patterns of many data science applications, including but not limited to graph algorithms, sparsely connected…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Aydın Buluç

Sparse matrix multiplication (SpMM) is widely applied to numerous domains, such as graph processing, machine learning, and data analytics. However, inner product based SpMM induces redundant zero-element computing for mismatched nonzero…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Wenhao Sun , Wendi Sun , Song Chen , Yi Kang

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

Matrix completion constantly receives tremendous attention from many research fields. It is commonly applied for recommender systems such as movie ratings, computer vision such as image reconstruction or completion, multi-task learning such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Abdallah Chehade , Zunya Shi

We present an algorithm to reduce the computational effort for the multiplication of a given matrix with an unknown column vector. The algorithm decomposes the given matrix into a product of matrices whose entries are either zero or integer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Ralf R. Müller , Bernhard Gäde , Ali Bereyhi

Sparse coding algorithms are about finding a linear basis in which signals can be represented by a small number of active (non-zero) coefficients. Such coding has many applications in science and engineering and is believed to play an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-14 András Lőrincz , Zsolt Palotai , Gábor Szirtes

Computing the product of two sparse matrices (SpGEMM) is a fundamental operation in various combinatorial and graph algorithms as well as various bioinformatics and data analytics applications for computing inner-product similarities. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Srđan Milaković , Oguz Selvitopi , Israt Nisa , Zoran Budimlić , Aydin Buluc

Optimizing compilers are mainly equipped to optimize control flow. The optimization of data structures is left to the programmer and it is the programmer's responsibility to design the data structures to suit the target hardware. Very…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-15 K. F. D. Rietveld , H. A. G. Wijshoff