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An important linear algebra routine, GEneral Matrix Multiplication (GEMM), is a fundamental operator in deep learning. Compilers need to translate these routines into low-level code optimized for specific hardware. Compiler-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Huaqing Zhang , Xiaolin Cheng , Hui Zang , Dae Hoon Park

Large matrix multiplication is a cornerstone of modern machine learning workloads, yet traditional approaches suffer from cubic computational complexity (e.g., $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$ for a matrix of size $n\times n$). We present Low-Rank GEMM,…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Alfredo Metere

The remarkable positive impact of Deep Neural Networks on many Artificial Intelligence (AI) tasks has led to the development of various high performance algorithms as well as specialized processors and accelerators. In this paper we address…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jie Lei , José Flich , Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí

We implement two novel algorithms for sparse-matrix dense-matrix multiplication (SpMM) on the GPU. Our algorithms expect the sparse input in the popular compressed-sparse-row (CSR) format and thus do not require expensive format conversion.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Carl Yang , Aydin Buluc , John D. Owens

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

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

Sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a critical operation in numerous fields, including scientific computing, graph analytics, and deep learning. These applications exploit the sparsity of matrices to reduce storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Sanjali Yadav , Bahar Asgari

Although the matrix multiplication plays a vital role in computational linear algebra, there are few efficient solutions for matrix multiplication of the near-sparse matrices. The Sparse Approximate Matrix Multiply (SpAMM) is one of the…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xiaoyan Liu , Yi Liu , Ming Dun , Bohong Yin , Hailong Yang , Zhongzhi Luan , Depei Qian

DL inference queries play an important role in diverse internet services and a large fraction of datacenter cycles are spent on processing DL inference queries. Specifically, the matrix-matrix multiplication (GEMM) operations of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Benjamin Y. Cho , Jeageun Jung , Mattan Erez

Sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a critical kernel widely employed in machine learning and graph algorithms. However, real-world matrices' high sparsity makes SpGEMM memory-intensive. In-situ computing offers the potential to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Huize Li , Tulika Mitra

The generic matrix multiply (GEMM) function is the core element of high-performance linear algebra libraries used in many computationally-demanding digital signal processing (DSP) systems. We propose an acceleration technique for GEMM based…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-05-30 Davide Anastasia , Yiannis Andreopoulos

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved significant improvements in various domains. Sparse Matrix-Matrix multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental operator in GNNs, which performs a multiplication between a sparse matrix and a dense…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Guyue Huang , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang

There is a growing interest in custom spatial accelerators for machine learning applications. These accelerators employ a spatial array of processing elements (PEs) interacting via custom buffer hierarchies and networks-on-chip. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Gordon E. Moon , Hyoukjun Kwon , Geonhwa Jeong , Prasanth Chatarasi , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Tushar Krishna

In recent years, novel AI accelerators have emerged as promising alternatives to GPU for AI model training and inference tasks. One such accelerator, the Cerebras CS-3, achieves strong performance on large model training as well as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Milan Shah , Sheng Di , Michela Becchi

In this paper, we focus on three sparse matrix operations that are relevant for machine learning applications, namely, the sparse-dense matrix multiplication (SPMM), the sampled dense-dense matrix multiplication (SDDMM), and the composition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Mohammad Zubair , Christoph Bauinger

We present a novel approach for accelerating convolutions during inference for CPU-based architectures. The most common method of computation involves packing the image into the columns of a matrix (im2col) and performing general matrix…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Amir Ofir , Gil Ben-Artzi

Developing kernels for Processing-In-Memory (PIM) platforms poses unique challenges in data management and parallel programming on limited processing units. Although software development kits (SDKs) for PIM, such as the UPMEM SDK, provide…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Krystian Chmielewski , Jarosław Ławnicki , Uladzislau Lukyanau , Tadeusz Kobus , Maciej Maciejewski

Matrix multiplication (GEMM) is a core operation to numerous scientific applications. Traditional implementations of Strassen-like fast matrix multiplication (FMM) algorithms often do not perform well except for very large matrix sizes, due…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Jianyu Huang , Leslie Rice , Devin A. Matthews , Robert A. van de Geijn

General matrix multiplication (GEMM) is a ubiquitous computing kernel/algorithm for data processing in diverse applications, including artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL). Recent shift towards edge computing has inspired…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Harideep Nair , Prabhu Vellaisamy , Albert Chen , Joseph Finn , Anna Li , Manav Trivedi , John Paul Shen