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Iterative solutions of sparse linear systems and sparse eigenvalue problems have a fundamental role in vital fields of scientific research and engineering. The crucial computing kernel for such iterative solutions is the multiplication of a…

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Transformers achieve state-of-the-art performance in natural language processing, vision, and scientific computing, but demand high computation and memory. To address these challenges, we present ASTRA, the first silicon-photonic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 S. Afifi , O. Alo , I. Thakkar , S. Pasricha

Stencil computations on low dimensional grids are kernels of many scientific applications including finite difference methods used to solve partial differential equations. On typical modern computer architectures, such stencil computations…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Philipp Hupp , Riko Jacob

Tensor Cores have been an important unit to accelerate Fused Matrix Multiplication Accumulation (MMA) in all NVIDIA GPUs since Volta Architecture. To program Tensor Cores, users have to use either legacy wmma APIs or current mma APIs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Wei Sun , Ang Li , Tong Geng , Sander Stuijk , Henk Corporaal

We present a novel approach to fast on-the-fly low order finite element assembly for scalar elliptic partial differential equations of Darcy type with variable coefficients optimized for matrix-free implementations. Our approach introduces…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Simon Bauer , Daniel Drzisga , Marcus Mohr , Ulrich Ruede , Christian Waluga , Barbara Wohlmuth

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

Spiking transformers are emerging as a promising architecture that combines the energy efficiency of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with the powerful attention mechanisms of transformers. However, existing hardware accelerators lack support…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Tenglong Li , Jindong Li , Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Qian Zhang , Yi Zeng

Biplanar X-ray imaging is widely used in health screening, postoperative rehabilitation evaluation of orthopedic diseases, and injury surgery due to its rapid acquisition, low radiation dose, and straightforward setup. However, 3D volume…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Tianqi Yu , Xuanyu Tian , Jiawen Yang , Dongming He , Jingyi Yu , Xudong Wang , Yuyao Zhang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), which are inspired by the human brain, have recently gained popularity due to their relatively simple and low-power hardware for transmitting binary spikes and highly sparse activation maps. However, because…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Hong-Han Lien , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for deep learning applications, particularly in resource-constrained systems. This is largely due to their inherent sparsity, influenced by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ilkin Aliyev. Kama Svoboda , Tosiron Adegbija

While performing distributed computations in today's cloud-based platforms, execution speed variations among compute nodes can significantly reduce the performance and create bottlenecks like stragglers. Coded computation techniques…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Krishna Giri Narra , Zhifeng Lin , Mehrdad Kiamari , Salman Avestimehr , Murali Annavaram

Sparse Matricized Tensor Times Khatri-Rao Product (spMTTKRP) is the bottleneck kernel of sparse tensor decomposition. In tensor decomposition, spMTTKRP is performed iteratively along all the modes of an input tensor. In this work, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Sasindu Wijeratne , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Sparse convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have gained significant traction over the past few years as sparse CNNs can drastically decrease the model size and computations, if exploited befittingly, as compared to their dense counterparts.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Mahmood Azhar Qureshi , Arslan Munir

In this paper, we aim at the problem of tensor data completion. Tensor-train decomposition is adopted because of its powerful representation ability and linear scalability to tensor order. We propose an algorithm named Sparse Tensor-train…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Longhao Yuan , Qibin Zhao , Jianting Cao

This work leverages the continuous sweeping motion of LiDAR scanning to concentrate object detection efforts on specific regions that receive a change in point data from one frame to another. We achieve this by using a sliding time window…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Alexander Dow , Manduhu Manduhu , Matheus Santos , Ben Bartlett , Gerard Dooly , James Riordan

Stencil computations, involving operations over the elements of an array, are a common programming pattern in scientific computing, games, and image processing. As a programming pattern, stencil computations are highly regular and amenable…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-09-06 Dominic Orchard , Alan Mycroft

The intrinsic dynamics and event-driven nature of spiking neural networks (SNNs) make them excel in processing temporal information by naturally utilizing embedded time sequences as time steps. Recent studies adopting this approach have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jiaqi Wang , Liutao Yu , Liwei Huang , Chenlin Zhou , Han Zhang , Zhenxi Song , Min Zhang , Zhengyu Ma , Zhiguo Zhang

Weight pruning in deep neural networks (DNNs) can reduce storage and computation cost, but struggles to bring practical speedup to the model inference time. Tensor-cores can significantly boost the throughput of GPUs on dense computation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Guyue Huang , Haoran Li , Minghai Qin , Fei Sun , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been recently brought to light due to their promising capabilities. SNNs simulate the brain with higher biological plausibility compared to previous generations of neural networks. Learning with fewer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Shahriar Rezghi Shirsavar , Mohammad-Reza A. Dehaqani

We present a novel architecture for sparse pattern processing, using flash storage with embedded accelerators. Sparse pattern processing on large data sets is the essence of applications such as document search, natural language processing,…

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