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Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs) have recently demonstrated great power in handling heterogeneous graph data, rendering them widely applied in many critical real-world domains. Most HGNN models leverage attention mechanisms to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Dengke Han , Meng Wu , Runzhen Xue , Mingyu Yan , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have dominated computer vision for years, due to its ability in capturing locality and translation invariance. Recently, many vision transformer architectures have been proposed and they show promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pichao Wang , Xue Wang , Fan Wang , Ming Lin , Shuning Chang , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Many sparse attention mechanisms such as Neighborhood Attention have typically failed to consistently deliver speedup over the self attention baseline. This is largely due to the level of complexity in attention infrastructure, and the…

Transformer is a powerful architecture that achieves superior performance on various sequence learning tasks, including neural machine translation, language understanding, and sequence prediction. At the core of the Transformer is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Shaojie Bai , Makoto Yamada , Louis-Philippe Morency , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Optimizing deep learning algorithms currently requires slow, manual derivation, potentially leaving much performance untapped. Methods like FlashAttention have achieved a x6 performance improvement over native PyTorch by avoiding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Vincent Abbott , Gioele Zardini

Discrete optimization is a central problem in artificial intelligence. The optimization of the aggregated cost of a network of cost functions arises in a variety of problems including (W)CSP, DCOP, as well as optimization in stochastic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Ferdinando Fioretto , Enrico Pontelli , William Yeoh , Rina Dechter

In the last few years, the memory requirements to train state-of-the-art neural networks have far exceeded the DRAM capacities of modern hardware accelerators. This has necessitated the development of efficient algorithms to train these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Siddharth Singh , Abhinav Bhatele

In this paper, we present an Adaptive Ensemble Learning framework that aims to boost the performance of deep neural networks by intelligently fusing features through ensemble learning techniques. The proposed framework integrates ensemble…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Neelesh Mungoli

The efficiency of attention is important due to its quadratic time complexity. We enhance the efficiency of attention through two key contributions: First, we leverage the new FP4 Tensor Cores in Blackwell GPUs to accelerate attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Jintao Zhang , Jia Wei , Pengle Zhang , Xiaoming Xu , Haofeng Huang , Haoxu Wang , Kai Jiang , Jianfei Chen , Jun Zhu

People perceive the world with different senses, such as sight, hearing, smell, and touch. Processing and fusing information from multiple modalities enables Artificial Intelligence to understand the world around us more easily. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Zecheng Liu , Jia Wei , Rui Li , Jianlong Zhou

We present a novel deep operator network (DeepONet) architecture for operator learning, the ensemble DeepONet, that allows for enriching the trunk network of a single DeepONet with multiple distinct trunk networks. This trunk enrichment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Ramansh Sharma , Varun Shankar

We present GraphTensor, a comprehensive open-source framework that supports efficient parallel neural network processing on large graphs. GraphTensor offers a set of easy-to-use programming primitives that appreciate both graph and neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Junhyeok Jang , Miryeong Kwon , Donghyun Gouk , Hanyeoreum Bae , Myoungsoo Jung

Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a potential alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, due to their promise to provide increased compute efficiency on event-driven neuromorphic hardware. However, to perform…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Souvik Kundu , Gourav Datta , Massoud Pedram , Peter A. Beerel

Linear-attention models that compress the entire input sequence into a fixed-size recurrent state offer an efficient alternative to Transformers, but their finite memory induces forgetfulness that harms retrieval-intensive tasks. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mutian He , Philip N. Garner

Sparse attention is a core building block in many leading neural network models, from graph-structured learning to sparse sequence modeling. It can be decomposed into a sequence of three sparse matrix operations (3S): sampled dense-dense…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Zitong Li , Aparna Chandramowlishwaran

Tensor accelerators now represent a growing share of compute resources in modern CPUs and GPUs. However, they are hard to program, leading developers to use vendor-provided kernel libraries that support tensor accelerators. As a result, the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yihong Zhang , Derek Gerstmann , Andrew Adams , Maaz Bin Safeer Ahmad

The increasing computational cost of deep neural network models limits the applicability of intelligent applications on resource-constrained edge devices. While a number of neural network pruning methods have been proposed to compress the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Guangli Li , Xiu Ma , Xueying Wang , Lei Liu , Jingling Xue , Xiaobing Feng

Transformers have achieved significant success across various domains, relying on self-attention to capture dependencies. However, the standard first-order attention mechanism is often limited by a low-rank bottleneck, struggling to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hanting Chen , Chong Zhu , Kai Han , Yuchuan Tian , Yuchen Liang , Tianyu Guo , Xinghao Chen , Dacheng Tao , Yunhe Wang

Humans can effectively find salient regions in complex scenes. Self-attention mechanisms were introduced into Computer Vision (CV) to achieve this. Attention Augmented Convolutional Network (AANet) is a mixture of convolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Runqing Zhang , Tianshu Zhu

A low-latency and energy-efficient tensor algebra accelerator design must optimize how data movement and operations are scheduled (i.e., mapped) in the accelerator architecture. A key mapping optimization is fusion, meaning holding data…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Tanner Andrulis , Michael Gilbert , Vivienne Sze , Joel S. Emer