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Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are recently getting much attention in bioinformatics and chemoinformatics as a state-of-the-art machine learning approach with high accuracy. GCNs process convolutional operations along with graph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Yusuke Nagasaka , Akira Nukada , Ryosuke Kojima , Satoshi Matsuoka

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

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

Computing the product of two sparse matrices (SpGEMM) is a fundamental operation in various combinatorial and graph algorithms as well as various bioinformatics and data analytics applications for computing inner-product similarities. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Srđan Milaković , Oguz Selvitopi , Israt Nisa , Zoran Budimlić , Aydin Buluc

Large matrix multiplication is a cornerstone of modern machine learning workloads, yet traditional approaches suffer from cubic computational complexity (e.g., $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$ for a matrix of size $n\times n$). We present Low-Rank GEMM,…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Alfredo Metere

Sparse Ternary General Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) remains under-optimized in existing libraries for Apple Silicon CPUs. We present a Sparse Ternary GEMM kernel optimized specifically for Apple's M-series processors. We propose a…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Baraq Lipshitz , Alessio Melone , Charalampos Maraziaris , Muhammed Bilal

General-purpose Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental kernel in scientific computing and deep learning. The emergence of new matrix computation units such as Tensor Cores (TCs) brings more opportunities for SpMM…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Haisha Zhao , San Li , Jiaheng Wang , Chunbao Zhou , Jue Wang , Zhikuang Xin , Shunde Li , Zhiqiang Liang , Zhijie Pan , Fang Liu , Yan Zeng , Yangang Wang , Xuebin Chi

Sparse data structures are commonly used in neural networks to reduce the memory footprint. These data structures are compact but cause irregularities such as random memory accesses, which prevent efficient use of the memory hierarchy. GPUs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hossein Albakri , Kazem Cheshmi

Sparse matrix-sparse matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a key kernel in many scientific applications and graph workloads. Unfortunately, SpGEMM is bottlenecked by data movement due to its irregular memory access patterns. Significant work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Abdullah Al Raqibul Islam , Helen Xu , Dong Dai , Aydın Buluç

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

This work focuses on accelerating the multiplication of a dense random matrix with a (fixed) sparse matrix, which is frequently used in sketching algorithms. We develop a novel scheme that takes advantage of blocking and recomputation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Tianyu Liang , Riley Murray , Aydın Buluç , James Demmel

Matrix multiplication (GEMM) is a core operation to numerous scientific applications. Traditional implementations of Strassen-like fast matrix multiplication (FMM) algorithms often do not perform well except for very large matrix sizes, due…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Jianyu Huang , Leslie Rice , Devin A. Matthews , Robert A. van de Geijn

Sparse matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a fundamental kernel used in many diverse application areas, both numerical and discrete. For example, many algebraic graph algorithms rely on SpGEMM in the tropical semiring to compute shortest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Alexander van der Grinten , Geert Custers , Duy Le Thanh , Henning Meyerhenke

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved significant improvements in various domains. Sparse Matrix-Matrix multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental operator in GNNs, which performs a multiplication between a sparse matrix and a dense…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Guyue Huang , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a fundamental operation in vector databases, enabling efficient similarity search in high-dimensional spaces. While dense ANNS has been optimized using specialized hardware accelerators, sparse…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tianqi Zhang , Flavio Ponzina , Tajana Rosing

General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) is a critical kernel in high-performance computing and deep learning. While modern architectures like ARM's Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) introduce dedicated hardware for matrix operations, existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Chencheng Deng , Weiling Yang , Jianbin Fang , Dezun Dong

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

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

HipMCL is a high-performance distributed memory implementation of the popular Markov Cluster Algorithm (MCL) and can cluster large-scale networks within hours using a few thousand CPU-equipped nodes. It relies on sparse matrix computations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Oguz Selvitopi , Md Taufique Hussain , Ariful Azad , Aydın Buluç

We present a novel approach for accelerating convolutions during inference for CPU-based architectures. The most common method of computation involves packing the image into the columns of a matrix (im2col) and performing general matrix…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Amir Ofir , Gil Ben-Artzi