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Top-K SpMV is a key component of similarity-search on sparse embeddings. This sparse workload does not perform well on general-purpose NUMA systems that employ traditional caching strategies. Instead, modern FPGA accelerator cards have a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Alberto Parravicini , Luca Giuseppe Cellamare , Marco Siracusa , Marco Domenico Santambrogio

Sparse matrix-dense matrix multiplication (SpMM) is a critical kernel in scientific computing, graph analytics, and machine learning, whose performance is often constrained by memory bandwidth. In this work, we investigate the applicability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Matthew Qian , Yahia Ramadan , Suhita Anubha , Ariful Azad

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

As neural network model sizes have dramatically increased, so has the interest in various techniques to reduce their parameter counts and accelerate their execution. An active area of research in this field is sparsity - encouraging zero…

Field Programmable Gate Arrays generate algorithmic specific architectures that improve the code's FLOP per watt ratio. Such devices are re-gaining interest due to the rise of new tools that facilitate their programming, such as OmpSs. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Guillermo Oyarzun , Daniel Peyrolon , Carlos Alvarez , Xavier Martorell

Sparse matrix-vector and matrix-matrix multiplication (SpMV and SpMM) are fundamental in both conventional (graph analytics, scientific computing) and emerging (sparse DNN, GNN) domains. Workload-balancing and parallel-reduction are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Guyue Huang , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

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

In recent years, the fervent demand for computational power across various domains has prompted hardware manufacturers to introduce specialized computing hardware aimed at enhancing computational capabilities. Particularly, the utilization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Hongyaoxing Gu

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 attention is a core building block in many leading neural network models, from graph-structured learning to sparse sequence modeling. It can be decomposed into a sequence of three sparse matrix operations (3S): sampled dense-dense…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Zitong Li , Aparna Chandramowlishwaran

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

The increasing success and scaling of Deep Learning models demands higher computational efficiency and power. Sparsification can lead to both smaller models as well as higher compute efficiency, and accelerated hardware is becoming…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Roberto L. Castro , Andrei Ivanov , Diego Andrade , Tal Ben-Nun , Basilio B. Fraguela , Torsten Hoefler

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is an essential tool in scientific and engineering computation. The increasing demand for mixed-precision FFT has made it possible to utilize half-precision floating-point (FP16) arithmetic for faster speed and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Binrui Li , Shenggan Cheng , James Lin

Dense linear layers are the dominant computational bottleneck in foundation models. Identifying more efficient alternatives to dense matrices has enormous potential for building more compute-efficient models, as exemplified by the success…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Shikai Qiu , Andres Potapczynski , Marc Finzi , Micah Goldblum , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Matrix and tensor completion aim to recover a low-rank matrix / tensor from limited observations and have been commonly used in applications such as recommender systems and multi-relational data mining. A state-of-the-art matrix completion…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok

Several manufacturers have already started to commercialize near-bank Processing-In-Memory (PIM) architectures. Near-bank PIM architectures place simple cores close to DRAM banks and can yield significant performance and energy improvements…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Christina Giannoula , Ivan Fernandez , Juan Gómez-Luna , Nectarios Koziris , Georgios Goumas , Onur Mutlu

We present an optimized single-precision implementation of the Sparse Approximate Matrix Multiply (\SpAMM{}) [M. Challacombe and N. Bock, arXiv {\bf 1011.3534} (2010)], a fast algorithm for matrix-matrix multiplication for matrices with…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-09-05 Nicolas Bock , Matt Challacombe

Sparse Tensor Cores offer exceptional performance gains for AI workloads by exploiting structured 2:4 sparsity. However, their potential remains untapped for core scientific workloads such as stencil computations, which exhibit irregular…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qi Li , Kun Li , Haozhi Han , Liang Yuan , Junshi Chen , Yunquan Zhang , Yifeng Chen , Hong An , Ting Cao , Mao Yang

Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (SpMV) has become a critical performance bottleneck in the local deployment of sparse Large Language Models (LLMs), where inference predominantly operates on workloads during the decoder phase with a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Junqing Lin , Jingwei Sun , Mingge Lu , Guangzhong Sun

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