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It has long been a problem to arrange and execute irregular workloads on massively parallel devices. We propose a general framework for statically batching irregular workloads into a single kernel with a runtime task mapping mechanism on…

Despite numerous efforts for optimizing the performance of Sparse Matrix and Vector Multiplication (SpMV) on modern hardware architectures, few works are done to its sparse counterpart, Sparse Matrix and Sparse Vector Multiplication…

GPU kernels have come to the forefront of computing due to their utility in varied fields, from high-performance computing to machine learning. A typical GPU compute kernel is invoked millions, if not billions of times in a typical…

Gaussian processes (GPs) are powerful probabilistic models that define flexible priors over functions, offering strong interpretability and uncertainty quantification. However, GP models often rely on simple, stationary kernels which can…

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are powerful learners that have led to state-of-the-art results in various computer vision problems. SVMs suffer from various drawbacks in terms of selecting the right kernel, which depends on the image…

Future computing systems, from handhelds to supercomputers, will undoubtedly be more parallel and heterogeneous than todays systems to provide more performance and energy efficiency. Thus, GPUs are increasingly being used to accelerate…

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…

Scaling up the sparse matrix-vector multiplication kernel on modern Graphics Processing Units (GPU) has been at the heart of numerous studies in both academia and industry. In this article we present a novel non-parametric, self-tunable,…

Fine-grained workload and resource balancing is the key to high performance for regular and irregular computations on the GPUs. In this dissertation, we conduct an extensive survey of existing load-balancing techniques to build an…

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is an essential linear algebra operation that dominates the computing cost in many scientific applications. Due to providing massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth, GPUs are commonly used to…

Kernel methods provide an elegant and principled approach to nonparametric learning, but so far could hardly be used in large scale problems, since na\"ive implementations scale poorly with data size. Recent advances have shown the benefits…

The ability to model, analyze, and predict execution time of computations is an important building block supporting numerous efforts, such as load balancing, performance optimization, and automated performance tuning for high performance,…

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…

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental computation in graph analytics, scientific simulation, and sparse deep learning workloads. However, the extreme irregularity of real-world sparse matrices prevents existing…

Contemporary GPUs allow concurrent execution of small computational kernels in order to prevent idling of GPU resources. Despite the potential concurrency between independent kernels, the order in which kernels are issued to the GPU will…

In computational science and data analytics, many workloads involve irregular and sparse computations that are inherently difficult to optimize for modern hardware. A key kernel is Sparse General Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpGEMM), which…

Kernel segmentation aims at partitioning a data sequence into several non-overlapping segments that may have nonlinear and complex structures. In general, it is formulated as a discrete optimization problem with combinatorial constraints. A…

Recently, graphics processors (GPUs) have been increasingly leveraged in a variety of scientific computing applications. However, architectural differences between CPUs and GPUs necessitate the development of algorithms that take advantage…

We introduce a code generator that converts unoptimized C++ code operating on sparse data into vectorized and parallel CPU or GPU kernels. Our approach unrolls the computation into a massive expression graph, performs redundant expression…

Modern machine learning models are typically trained using Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) on massively parallel computing resources such as GPUs. Increasing mini-batch size is a simple and direct way to utilize the parallel computing…