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Accelerators for sparse matrix multiplication are important components in emerging systems. In this paper, we study the main challenges of accelerating Sparse Matrix Multiplication (SpMM). For the situations that data is not stored in the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Pareesa Ameneh Golnari , Sharad Malik

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 General Matrix Multiply (SpGEMM) is key for various High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications such as genomics and graph analytics. Using the semiring abstraction, many algorithms can be formulated as SpGEMM, allowing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Thomas McFarland , Julian Bellavita , Giulia Guidi

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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have seen extensive application in domains such as social networks, bioinformatics, and recommendation systems. However, the irregularity and sparsity of graph data challenge traditional computing methods, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ka Wai Wu

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental kernel across scientific computing and machine learning. While prior work accelerates SpMM using Tensor Cores, no existing sparse kernel exploits the asynchronous features of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jie Liu , Huanzhi Pu , Zhiru Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are emerging as a powerful technique for modeling graph structures. Due to the sparsity of real-world graph data, GNN performance is limited by extensive sparse matrix multiplication (SpMM) operations involved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shenghao Qiu , You Liang , Zheng Wang

General sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is an integral part of many scientific computing, high-performance computing (HPC), and graph analytic applications. This paper presents a new compressed sparse vector (CSV) format for…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Erfan Bank Tavakoli , Michael Riera , Masudul Hassan Quraishi , Fengbo Ren

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) has served as fundamental components in various domains. Many previous studies exploit GPUs for SpMM acceleration because GPUs provide high bandwidth and parallelism. We point out that a static…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Guohao Dai , Guyue Huang , Shang Yang , Zhongming Yu , Hengrui Zhang , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

Generalized sparse matrix-matrix multiplication is a key primitive for many high performance graph algorithms as well as some linear solvers such as multigrid. We present the first parallel algorithms that achieve increasing speedups for an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Aydın Buluç , John R. Gilbert

Coordinating the design of sampling and sparse-dense matrix multiplication (SpMM) is crucial for accelerating graph neural networks (GNNs). However, due to irrational sampling strategies, existing methods face a trade-off between accuracy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yingchen Song , Yaobin Wang , Yi Luo , Huan Wu , Pingping Tang

The advent of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has revolutionized the field of machine learning, offering a novel paradigm for learning on graph-structured data. Unlike traditional neural networks, GNNs are capable of capturing complex…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Kaustubh Shivdikar

The increasing scale and wealth of inter-connected data, such as those accrued by social network applications, demand the design of new techniques and platforms to efficiently derive actionable knowledge from large-scale graphs. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Abdullah Gharaibeh , Tahsin Reza , Elizeu Santos-Neto , Lauro Beltrao Costa , Scott Sallinen , Matei Ripeanu

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…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Jonathan Wong , Ellen Kuhl , Eric Darve

Sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a critical operation in numerous fields, including scientific computing, graph analytics, and deep learning. These applications exploit the sparsity of matrices to reduce storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Sanjali Yadav , Bahar Asgari

While there have been many studies on hardware acceleration for deep learning on images, there has been a rather limited focus on accelerating deep learning applications involving graphs. The unique characteristics of graphs, such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Atefeh Sohrabizadeh , Yuze Chi , Jason Cong

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,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-12-24 Xintian Yang , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Ponnuswamy Sadayappan

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is crucial in computational science, engineering, and machine learning. Despite substantial efforts to improve SpMV performance on GPUs through various techniques, issues related to data locality,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xing Cong , Fukai Sun , Yifan Chen , Chenhao Xie* , Yi Liu , Depei Qian

The Sparse GEneral Matrix-Matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) $C = A \times B$ is a fundamental routine extensively used in domains like machine learning or graph analytics. Despite its relevance, the efficient execution of SpGEMM on vector…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Valentin Le Fèvre , Marc Casas

Sparse general matrix-matrix multiplication (spGEMM) is an essential component in many scientific and data analytics applications. However, the sparsity pattern of the input matrices and the interaction of their patterns make spGEMM…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Orestis Zachariadis , Nitin Satpute , Juan Gómez-Luna , Joaquín Olivares