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Leveraging large data sets, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art recognition accuracy. Due to the substantial compute and memory operations, however, they require significant execution time. The massive…

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This paper is devoted to GPU kernel optimization and performance analysis of three tensor-product operators arising in finite element methods. We provide a mathematical background to these operations and implementation details. Achieving…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Kasia Świrydowicz , Noel Chalmers , Ali Karakus , Timothy Warburton

Modern GPUs are able to perform significantly more arithmetic operations than transfers of a single word to or from global memory. Hence, many GPU kernels are limited by memory bandwidth and cannot exploit the arithmetic power of GPUs.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-13 J. Filipovič , M. Madzin , J. Fousek , L. Matyska

Emerging edge computing platforms often contain machine learning (ML) accelerators that can accelerate inference for a wide range of neural network (NN) models. These models are designed to fit within the limited area and energy constraints…

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State-of-the-art models are now trained with billions of parameters, reaching hardware limits in terms of memory consumption. This has created a recent demand for memory-efficient optimizers. To this end, we investigate the limits and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Xinyi Chen , Naman Agarwal , Elad Hazan , Cyril Zhang , Yi Zhang

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs), as the backbone of graph-based machine learning, demonstrate great success in various domains (e.g., e-commerce). However, the performance of GNNs is usually unsatisfactory due to the highly sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Yuke Wang , Boyuan Feng , Zheng Wang , Guyue Huang , Yufei Ding

GPUs have been favored for training deep learning models due to their highly parallelized architecture. As a result, most studies on training optimization focus on GPUs. There is often a trade-off, however, between cost and efficiency when…

Recently, deep learning has been an area of intense research. However, as a kind of computing-intensive task, deep learning highly relies on the scale of GPU memory, which is usually prohibitive and scarce. Although some extensive works…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Kaixin Zhang , Hongzhi Wang , Han Hu , Songling Zou , Jiye Qiu , Tongxin Li , Zhishun Wang

The acceleration of sparse matrix computations on modern many-core processors, such as the graphics processing units (GPUs), has been recognized and studied over a decade. Significant performance enhancements have been achieved for many…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Ruipeng Li

Recent studies from several hyperscalars pinpoint to embedding layers as the most memory-intensive deep learning (DL) algorithm being deployed in today's datacenters. This paper addresses the memory capacity and bandwidth challenges of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Youngeun Kwon , Yunjae Lee , Minsoo Rhu

During the past decade, Deep Learning (DL) algorithms, programming systems and hardware have converged with the High Performance Computing (HPC) counterparts. Nevertheless, the programming methodology of DL and HPC systems is stagnant,…

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We present HadaCore, a modified Fast Walsh-Hadamard Transform (FWHT) algorithm optimized for the Tensor Cores present in modern GPU hardware. HadaCore follows the recursive structure of the original FWHT algorithm, achieving the same…

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The optimization of the transpose convolution layer for deep learning applications is achieved with the kernel segregation mechanism. However, kernel segregation has disadvantages, such as computing extra elements to obtain the output…

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Many critical EDA problems suffer from the curse of dimensionality, i.e. the very fast-scaling computational burden produced by large number of parameters and/or unknown variables. This phenomenon may be caused by multiple spatial or…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Zheng Zhang , Kim Batselier , Haotian Liu , Luca Daniel , Ngai Wong

Computationally intensive deep neural networks (DNNs) are well-suited to run on GPUs, but newly developed algorithms usually require the heavily optimized DNN routines to work efficiently, and this problem could be even more difficult for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Yu-Sheng Lin , Wei-Chao Chen , Shao-Yi Chien

Matrix-accelerated stencil computation is a hot research topic, yet its application to three-dimensional (3D) high-order stencils and HPC remains underexplored. With the emergence of matrix units on multicore CPUs, we analyze matrix-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yinuo Wang , Tianqi Mao , Lin Gan , Wubing Wan , Zeyu Song , Jiayu Fu , Lanke He , Wenqiang Wang , Zekun Yin , Wei Xue , Guangwen Yang

Tensor Core Units (TCUs) are hardware accelerators developed for deep neural networks, which efficiently support the multiplication of two dense $\sqrt{m}\times \sqrt{m}$ matrices, where $m$ is a given hardware parameter. In this paper, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Thomas D. Ahle , Francesco Silvestri

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental operation in both training of neural networks and inference. To accelerate matrix multiplication, Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) provide it implemented in hardware. Due to the increased throughput…

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Scientific problems require resolving multi-scale phenomena across different resolutions and learning solution operators in infinite-dimensional function spaces. Neural operators provide a powerful framework for this, using…