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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

Scientific workloads have traditionally exploited high levels of sparsity to accelerate computation and reduce memory requirements. While deep neural networks can be made sparse, achieving practical speedups on GPUs is difficult because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Trevor Gale , Matei Zaharia , Cliff Young , Erich Elsen

We design and develop a work-efficient multithreaded algorithm for sparse matrix-sparse vector multiplication (SpMSpV) where the matrix, the input vector, and the output vector are all sparse. SpMSpV is an important primitive in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Ariful Azad , Aydin Buluc

Diffusion models demonstrate outstanding performance in image generation, but their multi-step inference mechanism requires immense computational cost. Previous works accelerate inference by leveraging layer or token cache techniques to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haowei Zhu , Ji Liu , Ziqiong Liu , Dong Li , Junhai Yong , Bin Wang , Emad Barsoum

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

Sparse tensors are prevalent in real-world applications, often characterized by their large-scale, high-order, and high-dimensional nature. Directly handling raw tensors is impractical due to the significant memory and computational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zixuan Li , Mingxing Duan , Huizhang Luo , Wangdong Yang , Kenli Li , Keqin Li

Driven by deep learning, there has been a surge of specialized processors for matrix multiplication, referred to as TensorCore Units (TCUs). These TCUs are capable of performing matrix multiplications on small matrices (usually 4x4 or…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Abdul Dakkak , Cheng Li , Isaac Gelado , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu

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

Currently, the size of scientific data is growing at an unprecedented rate. Data in the form of tensors exhibit high-order, high-dimensional, and highly sparse features. Although tensor-based analysis methods are very effective, the large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Zixuan Li

Deep learning demonstrates effectiveness across a wide range of tasks. However, the dense and over-parameterized nature of these models results in significant resource consumption during deployment. In response to this issue, weight…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Cong Ma , Du Wu , Zhelang Deng , Jiang Chen , Xiaowen Huang , Jintao Meng , Wenxi Zhu , Bingqiang Wang , Amelie Chi Zhou , Peng Chen , Minwen Deng , Yanjie Wei , Shengzhong Feng , Yi Pan

Sparse Matricized Tensor Times Khatri-Rao Product (spMTTKRP) is the most time-consuming compute kernel in sparse tensor decomposition. In this paper, we introduce a novel algorithm to minimize the execution time of spMTTKRP across all modes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Sasindu Wijeratne , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

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 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

The matrices used in many computational settings are naturally sparse, holding a small percentage of nonzero elements. Storing such matrices in specialized sparse formats enables algorithms that avoid wasting computation on zeros,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Pratyush Das , Amirhossein Basareh , Adhitha Dias , Artem Pelenitsyn , Kirshanthan Sundararajah , Milind Kulkarni , Ben Delaware

We consider a sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) setting where one matrix is square and the other is tall and skinny. This special variant, called TS-SpGEMM, has important applications in multi-source breadth-first search,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Isuru Ranawaka , Md Taufique Hussain , Charles Block , Gerasimos Gerogiannis , Josep Torrellas , Ariful Azad

The multiplication of a sparse matrix with a dense vector (SpMV) is a key component in many numerical schemes and its performance is known to be severely limited by main memory access. Several numerical schemes require the multiplication of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Christie L. Alappat , Georg Hager , Olaf Schenk , Gerhard Wellein

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

A low-latency and energy-efficient tensor algebra accelerator design must optimize how data movement and operations are scheduled (i.e., mapped) in the accelerator architecture. A key mapping optimization is fusion, meaning holding data…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Tanner Andrulis , Michael Gilbert , Vivienne Sze , Joel S. Emer

As the size of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) increases dramatically to achieve high accuracy, the DNNs require a large amount of computations and memory footprint. Pruning, which produces a sparse neural network, is one of the solutions to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Hyunsung Yoon , Sungju Ryu , Jae-Joon Kim

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