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Distributed algorithms are often beset by the straggler effect, where the slowest compute nodes in the system dictate the overall running time. Coding-theoretic techniques have been recently proposed to mitigate stragglers via algorithmic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Zachary Charles , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Jordan Ellenberg

We present a comprehensive framework for structured sparse coding and modeling extending the recent ideas of using learnable fast regressors to approximate exact sparse codes. For this purpose, we develop a novel block-coordinate proximal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Alex Bronstein , Pablo Sprechmann , Guillermo Sapiro

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental kernel across scientific computing and machine learning. While prior work accelerates SpMM using Tensor Cores, no existing sparse kernel exploits the asynchronous features of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jie Liu , Huanzhi Pu , Zhiru Zhang

Regression with sparse inputs is a common theme for large scale models. Optimizing the underlying linear algebra for sparse inputs allows such models to be estimated faster. At the same time, centering the inputs has benefits in improving…

Computation · Statistics 2019-10-30 Jeffrey Wong

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables computation directly on encrypted data but incurs massive computational and memory overheads, often exceeding plaintext execution by several orders of magnitude. While custom ASIC accelerators can…

In high-performance computing, hotspot GPU kernels are primary bottlenecks, and expert manual tuning is costly and hard to port. Large language model methods often assume kernels can be compiled and executed cheaply, which fails in large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ruifan Chu , Anbang Wang , Xiuxiu Bai , Shuai Liu , Xiaoshe Dong

Convolutional neural network (CNN) inference on mobile devices demands efficient hardware acceleration of low-precision (INT8) general matrix multiplication (GEMM). Exploiting data sparsity is a common approach to further accelerate GEMM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Zhi-Gang Liu , Paul N. Whatmough , Matthew Mattina

This work presents Squeeze, an efficient compact fractal processing scheme for tensor core GPUs. By combining discrete-space transformations between compact and expanded forms, one can do data-parallel computation on a fractal with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Felipe A. Quezada , Cristóbal A. Navarro , Nancy Hitschfeld , Benjamin Bustos

Image processing algorithms are prime targets for hardware acceleration as they are commonly used in resource- and power-limited applications. Today's image processing accelerator designs make rigid assumptions about the algorithm…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Nisarg Ujjainkar , Jingwen Leng , Yuhao Zhu

In recent years, there is a surge on machine learning applications in industry. Many of them are based on popular AI frameworks like Tensorflow, Torch, Caffe, or MxNet, etc, and are enpowered by accelerator platforms such as GPUs. One…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Guoping Long , Jun Yang , Kai Zhu , Wei Lin

The interior-point method (IPM) has become the workhorse method for nonlinear programming. The performance of IPM is directly related to the linear solver employed to factorize the Karush--Kuhn--Tucker (KKT) system at each iteration of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-23 François Pacaud , Sungho Shin , Michel Schanen , Daniel Adrian Maldonado , Mihai Anitescu

Using GPU-based HPC platforms efficiently for coupled cluster computations is a challenge due to heterogeneous hardware structures. The constant need to adapt software to these structures and the required man-hours makes a systematization…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jan Brandejs , Johann Pototschnig , Trond Saue

Tensor decomposition (TD) is an important method for extracting latent information from high-dimensional (multi-modal) sparse data. This study presents a novel framework for accelerating fundamental TD operations on massively parallel GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Andy Nguyen , Ahmed E. Helal , Fabio Checconi , Jan Laukemann , Jesmin Jahan Tithi , Yongseok Soh , Teresa Ranadive , Fabrizio Petrini , Jee W. Choi

Several manufacturers have already started to commercialize near-bank Processing-In-Memory (PIM) architectures. Near-bank PIM architectures place simple cores close to DRAM banks and can yield significant performance and energy improvements…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Christina Giannoula , Ivan Fernandez , Juan Gómez-Luna , Nectarios Koziris , Georgios Goumas , Onur Mutlu

Many artificial intelligence (AI) devices have been developed to accelerate the training and inference of neural networks models. The most common ones are the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). They are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 xiangyang Ju , Yunsong Wang , Daniel Murnane , Nicholas Choma , Steven Farrell , Paolo Calafiura

We introduce a learning-based framework to optimize tensor programs for deep learning workloads. Efficient implementations of tensor operators, such as matrix multiplication and high dimensional convolution, are key enablers of effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Tianqi Chen , Lianmin Zheng , Eddie Yan , Ziheng Jiang , Thierry Moreau , Luis Ceze , Carlos Guestrin , Arvind Krishnamurthy

Scaling up the sparse matrix-vector multiplication kernel on modern Graphics Processing Units (GPU) has been at the heart of numerous studies in both academia and industry. In this article we present a novel non-parametric, self-tunable,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-12-24 Xintian Yang , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Ponnuswamy Sadayappan

We begin by presenting a simple lossy compressor operating at near-zero rate: The encoder merely describes the indices of the few maximal source components, while the decoder's reconstruction is a natural estimate of the source components…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Albert No , Tsachy Weissman

Sparse coding algorithm is an learning algorithm mainly for unsupervised feature for finding succinct, a little above high - level Representation of inputs, and it has successfully given a way for Deep learning. Our objective is to use High…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-08 R. Vidya , Dr. G. M. Nasira , R. P. Jaia Priyankka

Sparse matrices, more specifically SpGEMM kernels, are commonly found in a wide range of applications, spanning graph-based path-finding to machine learning algorithms (e.g., neural networks). A particular challenge in implementing SpGEMM…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Kaustubh Shivdikar