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General sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a fundamental building block for numerous applications such as algebraic multigrid method (AMG), breadth first search and shortest path problem. Compared to other sparse BLAS routines,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Weifeng Liu , Brian Vinter

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Aiying Li , Jingwei Sun , Han Li , Wence Ji , Guangzhong Sun

Distributed matrix computations over large clusters can suffer from the problem of slow or failed worker nodes (called stragglers) which can dominate the overall job execution time. Coded computation utilizes concepts from erasure coding to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Anindya Bijoy Das , Aditya Ramamoorthy

This paper addresses spatial programming of sparse matrix computations for productive performance. The challenge is how to express an irregular computation and its optimizations in a regular way. A sparse matrix has (non-zero) values and a…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Hongbo Rong

Sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a computational primitive that is widely used in areas ranging from traditional numerical applications to recent big data analysis and machine learning. Although many SpGEMM algorithms have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Yusuke Nagasaka , Satoshi Matsuoka , Ariful Azad , Aydın Buluç

Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental operation in the inference of sparse Large Language Models (LLMs). Because existing SpMV methods perform poorly under the low and unstructured sparsity (30-90%) commonly observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Vladimír Macko , Vladimír Boža

We present a distributed-memory library for computations with dense structured matrices. A matrix is considered structured if its off-diagonal blocks can be approximated by a rank-deficient matrix with low numerical rank. Here, we use…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-06-29 François-Henry Rouet , Xiaoye S. Li , Pieter Ghysels , Artem Napov

Sparse linear algebra kernels play a critical role in numerous applications, covering from exascale scientific simulation to large-scale data analytics. Offloading linear algebra kernels on one GPU will no longer be viable in these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Jieyang Chen , Chenhao Xie , Jesun S Firoz , Jiajia Li , Shuaiwen Leon Song , Kevin Barker , Mark Raugas , Ang Li

Generalized sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (or SpGEMM) is a key primitive for many high performance graph algorithms as well as for some linear solvers, such as algebraic multigrid. Here we show that SpGEMM also yields efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Aydin Buluc , John Gilbert

Sparse Matrix Vector multiplication (SpMV) is one of basic building blocks in scientific computing, and acceleration of SpMV has been continuously required. In this research, we aim for accelerating SpMV on recent CPUs for sparse matrices…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Takeshi Fukaya , Koki Ishida , Akie Miura , Takeshi Iwashita , Hiroshi Nakashima

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

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental operation in machine learning, scientific computing, and graph algorithms. In this paper, we investigate the space, time, and energy efficiency of SpMV using various compressed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Francesco Tosoni , Philip Bille , Valerio Brunacci , Alessio De Angelis , Paolo Ferragina , Giovanni Manzini

Sparse Matrix-matrix Multiplication (SpMM) and Sampled Dense-dense Matrix Multiplication (SDDMM) are important sparse operators in scientific computing and deep learning. Tensor Core Units (TCUs) enhance modern accelerators with superior…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jinliang Shi , Shigang Li , Youxuan Xu , Rongtian Fu , Xueying Wang , Tong Wu

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

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is the core operation in many common network and graph analytics, but poor performance of the SpMV kernel handicaps these applications. This work quantifies the effect of matrix structure on SpMV…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Daniel Kimball , Elizabeth Michel , Paul Keltcher , Michael M. Wolf

This paper presents a low-overhead optimizer for the ubiquitous sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) kernel. Architectural diversity among different processors together with structural diversity among different sparse matrices lead to…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Nektarios Koziris

Sparse computations frequently appear in scientific simulations and the performance of these simulations rely heavily on the optimization of the sparse codes. The compact data structures and irregular computation patterns in sparse matrix…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Zachary Cetinic , Kazem Cheshmi , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi

We develop and implement in this paper a fast sparse assembly algorithm, the fundamental operation which creates a compressed matrix from raw index data. Since it is often a quite demanding and sometimes critical operation, it is of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Stefan Engblom , Dimitar Lukarski

We consider the problem of developing an efficient multi-threaded implementation of the matrix-vector multiplication algorithm for sparse matrices with structural symmetry. Matrices are stored using the compressed sparse row-column format…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Vicente H. F. Batista , George O. Ainsworth , Fernando L. B. Ribeiro

We implement two novel algorithms for sparse-matrix dense-matrix multiplication (SpMM) on the GPU. Our algorithms expect the sparse input in the popular compressed-sparse-row (CSR) format and thus do not require expensive format conversion.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Carl Yang , Aydin Buluc , John D. Owens