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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

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

The sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMxV) is a kernel operation widely used in iterative linear solvers. The same sparse matrix is multiplied by a dense vector repeatedly in these solvers. Matrices with irregular sparsity patterns…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Kadir Akbudak , Enver Kayaaslan , Cevdet Aykanat

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

Sparse matrix computation is crucial in various modern applications, including large-scale graph analytics, deep learning, and recommender systems. The performance of sparse kernels varies greatly depending on the structure of the input…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Francesco Sgherzi , Marco Siracusa , Ivan Fernandez , Adrià Armejach , Miquel Moretó

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

Multiplying two sparse matrices (SpGEMM) is a common computational primitive used in many areas including graph algorithms, bioinformatics, algebraic multigrid solvers, and randomized sketching. Distributed-memory parallel algorithms for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Yuxi Hong , Aydin Buluc

Sparse general matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a fundamental building block in numerous scientific applications. One critical task of SpGEMM is to compute or predict the structure of the output matrix (i.e., the number of nonzero elements…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Zhaoyang Du , Yijin Guan , Tianchan Guan , Dimin Niu , Nianxiong Tan , Xiaopeng Yu , Hongzhong Zheng , Jianyi Meng , Xiaolang Yan , Yuan Xie

We consider a sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) setting where one matrix is square and the other is tall and skinny. This special variant, called TS-SpGEMM, has important applications in multi-source breadth-first search,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Isuru Ranawaka , Md Taufique Hussain , Charles Block , Gerasimos Gerogiannis , Josep Torrellas , Ariful Azad

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…

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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…

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We present memory-efficient and scalable algorithms for kernel methods used in machine learning. Using hierarchical matrix approximations for the kernel matrix the memory requirements, the number of floating point operations, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Elizaveta Rebrova , Gustavo Chavez , Yang Liu , Pieter Ghysels , Xiaoye Sherry Li

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental operation in graph computing and analytics. However, the irregularity of real-world graphs poses significant challenges to achieving efficient SpMM operation for graph data on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zhonggen Li , Xiangyu Ke , Yifan Zhu , Yunjun Gao , Yaofeng Tu

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Tao Tang , Youfu Jiang , Yingbo Cui , Jianbin Fang , Peng Zhang , Lin Peng , Chun Huang

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental operation with a wide range of applications in scientific computing and artificial intelligence. However, the large scale and sparsity of sparse matrix often make it a performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Chen Yan , Boyu Diao , Hangda Liu , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu

Achieving high performance for sparse applications is challenging due to irregular access patterns and weak locality. These properties preclude many static optimizations and degrade cache performance on traditional systems. To address these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Thomas B. Rolinger , Christopher D. Krieger

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental computation in graph analytics, scientific simulation, and sparse deep learning workloads. However, the extreme irregularity of real-world sparse matrices prevents existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Aiying Li , Jingwei Sun , Han Li , Wence Ji , Guangzhong Sun

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

In this paper, we propose an optimization selection methodology for the ubiquitous sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) kernel. We propose two models that attempt to identify the major performance bottleneck of the kernel for every…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Nectarios Koziris