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Sparse general matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a critical operation in many applications. Current multithreaded implementations are based on Gustavson's algorithm and often perform poorly on large matrices due to limited cache…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Jordi Wolfson-Pou , Jan Laukemann , Fabrizio Petrini

Sparse General Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpGEMM) is a fundamental operation in numerous scientific computing and data analytics applications, often bottlenecked by irregular memory access patterns. This paper presents Hash based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shiju Li , Younghoon Min , Hane Yie , Hoshik Kim , Soohong Ahn , Joonseop Sim , Chul-Ho Lee , Jongryool Kim

In Scientific Computing and modern Machine Learning (ML) workloads, sequences of dependent General Matrix Multiplications (GEMMs) often dominate execution time. While state-of-the-art BLAS libraries aggressively optimize individual GEMM…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 César Guedes Carneiro , Lucas Alvarenga , Guido Araujo , Sandro Rigo

Machine learning (ML) models are widely used in many important domains. For efficiently processing these computational- and memory-intensive applications, tensors of these over-parameterized models are compressed by leveraging sparsity,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Shail Dave , Riyadh Baghdadi , Tony Nowatzki , Sasikanth Avancha , Aviral Shrivastava , Baoxin Li

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

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Cong Guo , Fengchen Xue , Jingwen Leng , Yuxian Qiu , Yue Guan , Weihao Cui , Quan Chen , Minyi Guo

Sparse general matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a fundamental building block for many real-world applications. Since SpGEMM is a well-known memory-bounded application with vast and irregular memory accesses, considering the memory access…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Zhaoyang Du , Yijin Guan , Tianchan Guan , Dimin Niu , Hongzhong Zheng , Yuan Xie

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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zhekai Zhang , Hanrui Wang , Song Han , William J. Dally

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (spMVM) is the dominant operation in many sparse solvers. We investigate performance properties of spMVM with matrices of various sparsity patterns on the nVidia "Fermi" class of GPGPUs. A new "padded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Moritz Kreutzer , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein , Holger Fehske , Achim Basermann , Alan R. Bishop

The inference and training stages of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are often dominated by the time required to compute a long sequence of matrix multiplications between the sparse graph adjacency matrix and its embedding. To accelerate these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-05 João N. F. Alves , Samir Moustafa , Siegfried Benkner , Alexandre P. Francisco , Wilfried N. Gansterer , Luís M. S. Russo

With the fast growth of parameter size, it becomes increasingly challenging to deploy large generative models as they typically require large GPU memory consumption and massive computation. Unstructured model pruning has been a common…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Haojun Xia , Zhen Zheng , Yuchao Li , Donglin Zhuang , Zhongzhu Zhou , Xiafei Qiu , Yong Li , Wei Lin , Shuaiwen Leon Song

Sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (or SpGEMM) is a key primitive for many high-performance graph algorithms as well as for some linear solvers, such as algebraic multigrid. The scaling of existing parallel implementations of SpGEMM is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ariful Azad , Grey Ballard , Aydin Buluc , James Demmel , Laura Grigori , Oded Schwartz , Sivan Toledo , Samuel Williams

In computational science and data analytics, many workloads involve irregular and sparse computations that are inherently difficult to optimize for modern hardware. A key kernel is Sparse General Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpGEMM), which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yifan Li , Giulia Guidi

General sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a fundamental building block for numerous applications such as algebraic multigrid method (AMG), breadth first search and shortest path problem. Compared to other sparse BLAS routines,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Weifeng Liu , Brian Vinter

This paper proposes a new hardware accelerator for sparse convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by building a hardware unit to perform the Image to Column (IM2COL) transformation of the input feature map coupled with a systolic array-based…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Mohammadreza Soltaniyeh , Richard P. Martin , Santosh Nagarakatte

We introduce Stream-K, a work-centric parallelization of matrix multiplication (GEMM) and related computations in dense linear algebra. Whereas contemporary decompositions are primarily tile-based, our method operates by partitioning an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Muhammad Osama , Duane Merrill , Cris Cecka , Michael Garland , John D. Owens

Generic matrix multiplication (GEMM) and one-dimensional convolution/cross-correlation (CONV) kernels often constitute the bulk of the compute- and memory-intensive processing within image/audio recognition and matching systems. We propose…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Mohammad Ashraful Anam , Paul N. Whatmough , Yiannis Andreopoulos

The demand for efficient processing of deep neural networks (DNNs) on embedded devices is a significant challenge limiting their deployment. Exploiting sparsity in the network's feature maps is one of the ways to reduce its inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Matteo Grimaldi , Darshan C. Ganji , Ivan Lazarevich , Sudhakar Sah

Dilithium is a lattice-based digital signature scheme standardized by the NIST post-quantum cryptography (PQC) project. In this study, we focus on developing efficient sparse polynomial multiplication implementations of Dilithium for ARM…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Jieyu Zheng , Hong Zhang , Le Tian , Zhuo Zhang , Hanyu Wei , Zhiwei Chu , Yafang Yang , Yunlei Zhao

High performance dense linear algebra (DLA) libraries often rely on a general matrix multiply (Gemm) kernel that is implemented using assembly or with vector intrinsics. In particular, the real-valued Gemm kernels provide the overwhelming…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Richard Michael Veras , Tze Meng Low , Tyler Michael Smith , Robert van de Geijn , Franz Franchetti

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed artificial intelligence, but their computational requirements remain prohibitive for most users. Standard inference demands expensive datacenter GPUs or cloud API access, leaving over one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Nii Osae Osae Dade , Tony Morri , Moinul Hossain Rahat , Sayandip Pal