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Gradient descent optimizations and backpropagation are the most common methods for training neural networks, but they are computationally expensive for real time applications, need high memory resources, and are difficult to converge for…
We present a novel, practical approach to speed up sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMVM) on GPUs. The novel key idea is to apply lossless entropy coding to further compress the sparse matrix when stored in one of the commonly…
The deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) in privacy-sensitive environments is constrained by computational overheads in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). This paper explores unstructured sparsity in FHE matrix multiplication schemes…
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a powerful technique for dimension reduction, extracting latent factors and learning part-based representation. For large datasets, NMF performance depends on some major issues: fast algorithms,…
We propose different implementations of the sparse matrix--dense vector multiplication (\spmv{}) for finite fields and rings $\Zb/m\Zb$. We take advantage of graphic card processors (GPU) and multi-core architectures. Our aim is to improve…
We present the submatrix method, a highly parallelizable method for the approximate calculation of inverse p-th roots of large sparse symmetric matrices which are required in different scientific applications. We follow the idea of…
Sparse computations frequently appear in scientific simulations and the performance of these simulations rely heavily on the optimization of the sparse codes. The compact data structures and irregular computation patterns in sparse matrix…
Multiplication of a sparse matrix to a dense matrix (SpDM) is widely used in many areas like scientific computing and machine learning. However, existing works under-look the performance optimization of SpDM on modern many-core…
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…
Sparse matrix ordering is a vital optimization technique often employed for solving large-scale sparse matrices. Its goal is to minimize the matrix bandwidth by reorganizing its rows and columns, thus enhancing efficiency. Conventional…
We propose a fine-grained hypergraph model for sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM), a key computational kernel in scientific computing and data analysis whose performance is often communication bound. This model correctly describes…
The trend towards highly parallel multi-processing is ubiquitous in all modern computer architectures, ranging from handheld devices to large-scale HPC systems; yet many applications are struggling to fully utilise the multiple levels of…
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…
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 Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental operation in high-performance computing and deep learning applications. The major performance bottleneck in distributed SpMM lies in substantial communication overhead,…
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a computationally efficient method to learn embeddings and classifications on graph data. However, GNN training has low computational intensity, making communication costs the bottleneck for scalability.…
Generalized Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpGEMM) is a ubiquitous task in various engineering and scientific applications. However, inner product based SpGENN introduces redundant input fetches for mismatched nonzero operands, while…
Fueled by the ability to mine real-world graph data, GNN applications have experienced phenomenal growth. Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a critical operator in GNNs. However, existing SpMM designs for GNNs struggle to adapt…
High-performance sparse matrix-matrix (SpMM) multiplication is paramount for science and industry, as the ever-increasing sizes of data prohibit using dense data structures. Yet, existing hardware, such as Tensor Cores (TC), is ill-suited…
Computation of the large sparse matrix exponential has been an important topic in many fields, such as network and finite-element analysis. The existing scaling and squaring algorithm (SSA) is not suitable for the computation of the large…