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Transformers are considered one of the most important deep learning models since 2018, in part because it establishes state-of-the-art (SOTA) records and could potentially replace existing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Despite the remarkable…

The attention mechanism requires huge computational efforts to process unnecessary calculations, significantly limiting the system's performance. Researchers propose sparse attention to convert some DDMM operations to SDDMM and SpMM…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their inherent recurrence, offer an efficient method for processing the asynchronous temporal data generated by Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS), making them well-suited for event-based vision applications.…

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…

Long-context modeling is crucial for next-generation language models, yet the high computational cost of standard attention mechanisms poses significant computational challenges. Sparse attention offers a promising direction for improving…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are inspired by the sparse and event-driven nature of biological neural processing, and offer the potential for ultra-low-power artificial intelligence. However, realizing their efficiency benefits requires…

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of applications. However, deeper CNN models, which are usually computation consuming, are widely required for complex Artificial…

Motivated by extreme multi-label classification applications, we consider training deep learning models over sparse data in multi-GPU servers. The variance in the number of non-zero features across training batches and the intrinsic GPU…

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…

Recently, numerous sparse hardware accelerators for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), and scientific computing applications have been proposed. A common characteristic among all of these accelerators is that they…

The computational burden of attention in long-context language models has motivated two largely independent lines of work: sparse attention mechanisms that reduce complexity by attending to selected tokens, and gated attention variants that…

Neural networks for industrial applications generally have additional constraints such as response speed, memory size and power usage. Randomized learners can address some of these issues. However, hardware solutions can provide better…

Sparse data structures are commonly used in neural networks to reduce the memory footprint. These data structures are compact but cause irregularities such as random memory accesses, which prevent efficient use of the memory hierarchy. GPUs…

Sparsity is an intrinsic property of convolutional neural network(CNN) and worth exploiting for CNN accelerators, but extra processing comes with hardware overhead, causing many architectures suffering from only minor profit. Meanwhile,…

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are recently getting much attention in bioinformatics and chemoinformatics as a state-of-the-art machine learning approach with high accuracy. GCNs process convolutional operations along with graph…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for deep learning applications, particularly in resource-constrained systems. This is largely due to their inherent sparsity, influenced by…

As its core computation, a self-attention mechanism gauges pairwise correlations across the entire input sequence. Despite favorable performance, calculating pairwise correlations is prohibitively costly. While recent work has shown the…

We present FuseSampleAgg, a CUDA operator that fuses neighbor sampling and mean aggregation into a single pass for one and two hop GraphSAGE. By eliminating block materialization and extra kernel launches, FuseSampleAgg reduces memory…

Associative memories are structures that can retrieve previously stored information given a partial input pattern instead of an explicit address as in indexed memories. A few hardware approaches have recently been introduced for a new…

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.…