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Single-Program-Multiple-Data (SPMD) parallelism has recently been adopted to train large deep neural networks (DNNs). Few studies have explored its applicability on heterogeneous clusters, to fully exploit available resources for large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Shiwei Zhang , Lansong Diao , Chuan Wu , Zongyan Cao , Siyu Wang , Wei Lin

In this study, we introduce a domain-decomposition-based distributed training and inference approach for message-passing neural networks (MPNN). Our objective is to address the challenge of scaling edge-based graph neural networks as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Priyesh Kakka , Sheel Nidhan , Rishikesh Ranade , Jay Pathak , Jonathan F. MacArt

Sketching is widely used in randomized linear algebra for low-rank matrix approximation, column subset selection, and many other problems, and it has gained significant traction in machine learning applications. However, sketching large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hussam Al Daas , Grey Ballard , Laura Grigori , Md Taufique Hussain , Suraj Kumar , Mohammad Marufur Rahman , Kathryn Rouse

Graph Neural Network (GNN) inference is used in many real-world applications. Data sparsity in GNN inference, including sparsity in the input graph and the GNN model, offer opportunities to further speed up inference. Also, many pruning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Bingyi Zhang , Viktor Prasanna

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for various graph mining tasks, yet existing scalable solutions often struggle to balance execution efficiency with prediction accuracy. These difficulties stem from iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xu Cheng , Liang Yao , Feng He , Yukuo Cen , Yufei He , Chenhui Zhang , Wenzheng Feng , Hongyun Cai , Jie Tang

Graph-based representations for samples of computational mechanics-related datasets can prove instrumental when dealing with problems like irregular domains or molecular structures of materials, etc. To effectively analyze and process such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Isha Jain , Shailesh Garg , Shaurya Shriyam , Souvik Chakraborty

Neural forecasting of spatiotemporal time series drives both research and industrial innovation in several relevant application domains. Graph neural networks (GNNs) are often the core component of the forecasting architecture. However, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Andrea Cini , Ivan Marisca , Filippo Maria Bianchi , Cesare Alippi

We propose SGS-GNN, a novel supervised graph sparsifier that learns the sampling probability distribution of edges and samples sparse subgraphs of a user-specified size to reduce the computational costs required by GNNs for inference tasks…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for developing scalable, decentralized artificial intelligence in large-scale networked systems, such as wireless networks, power grids, and transportation networks. Currently, GNNs in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Rostyslav Olshevskyi , Zhongyuan Zhao , Kevin Chan , Gunjan Verma , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

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

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), particularly for large-scale graphs, are crucial across numerous domains. However, training distributed full-batch GCNs on large-scale graphs suffers from inefficient memory access patterns and high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chen Zhuang , Lingqi Zhang , Du Wu , Peng Chen , Jiajun Huang , Xin Liu , Rio Yokota , Nikoli Dryden , Toshio Endo , Satoshi Matsuoka , Mohamed Wahib

Large-scale deep neural networks (DNN) exhibit excellent performance for various tasks. As DNNs and datasets grow, distributed training becomes extremely time-consuming and demands larger clusters. A main bottleneck is the resulting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yisu Wang , Ruilong Wu , Xinjiao Li , Dirk Kutscher

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown promising performance, but at the cost of resource-intensive operations on graph-scale matrices. To reduce computational overhead, previous studies attempt to sparsify the graph or network parameters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ningyi Liao , Zihao Yu , Ruixiao Zeng , Siqiang Luo

Sparse matrix-dense matrix multiplication (SpMM) is a critical kernel in scientific computing, graph analytics, and machine learning, whose performance is often constrained by memory bandwidth. In this work, we investigate the applicability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Matthew Qian , Yahia Ramadan , Suhita Anubha , Ariful Azad

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful model to capture critical graph patterns. Instead of treating them as black boxes in an end-to-end fashion, attempts are arising to explain the model behavior. Existing works mainly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Yi Nian , Yurui Chang , Wei Jin , Lu Lin

We propose to execute deep neural networks (DNNs) with dynamic and sparse graph (DSG) structure for compressive memory and accelerative execution during both training and inference. The great success of DNNs motivates the pursuing of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Liu Liu , Lei Deng , Xing Hu , Maohua Zhu , Guoqi Li , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

Network pruning can reduce the high computation cost of deep neural network (DNN) models. However, to maintain their accuracies, sparse models often carry randomly-distributed weights, leading to irregular computations. Consequently, sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Cong Guo , Bo Yang Hsueh , Jingwen Leng , Yuxian Qiu , Yue Guan , Zehuan Wang , Xiaoying Jia , Xipeng Li , Minyi Guo , Yuhao Zhu

Graph representation learning has attracted much attention in supporting high quality candidate search at scale. Despite its effectiveness in learning embedding vectors for objects in the user-item interaction network, the computational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Qiaoyu Tan , Ninghao Liu , Xing Zhao , Hongxia Yang , Jingren Zhou , Xia Hu

To reduce the long training time of large deep neural network (DNN) models, distributed synchronous stochastic gradient descent (S-SGD) is commonly used on a cluster of workers. However, the speedup brought by multiple workers is limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Shaohuai Shi , Zhenheng Tang , Qiang Wang , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

Gradient-based optimization methods implemented on distributed computing architectures are increasingly used to tackle large-scale machine learning applications. A key bottleneck in such distributed systems is the high communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiaoge Deng , Dongsheng Li , Tao Sun , Xicheng Lu