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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…

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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…

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Sparse general matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a fundamental building block in numerous scientific applications. One critical task of SpGEMM is to compute or predict the structure of the output matrix (i.e., the number of nonzero elements…

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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…

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Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental operation in graph computing and analytics. However, the irregularity of real-world graphs poses significant challenges to achieving efficient SpMM operation for graph data on…

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Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is an essential linear algebra operation that dominates the computing cost in many scientific applications. Due to providing massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth, GPUs are commonly used to…

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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

Sparse linear algebra kernels play a critical role in numerous applications, covering from exascale scientific simulation to large-scale data analytics. Offloading linear algebra kernels on one GPU will no longer be viable in these…

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Sampled Dense Times Dense Matrix Multiplication (SDDMM) and Sparse Times Dense Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) appear in diverse settings, such as collaborative filtering, document clustering, and graph embedding. Frequently, the SDDMM output…

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Architectures with multiple classes of memory media are becoming a common part of mainstream supercomputer deployments. So called multi-level memories offer differing characteristics for each memory component including variation in…

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Sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a computational primitive that is widely used in areas ranging from traditional numerical applications to recent big data analysis and machine learning. Although many SpGEMM algorithms have…

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Deep Learning (DL) has achieved unprecedented success in various application domains. Meanwhile, model pruning has emerged as a viable solution to reduce the footprint of DL models in mobile applications, without compromising their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Christodoulos Peltekis , Vasileios Titopoulos , Chrysostomos Nicopoulos , Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos

General Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpGEMM) has attracted much attention from researchers in graph analyzing, scientific computing, and deep learning. Many optimization techniques have been developed for different applications and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Jianhua Gao , Weixing Ji , Fangli Chang , Shiyu Han , Bingxin Wei , Zeming Liu , Yizhuo Wang

The computational demands of modern Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are immense and constantly growing. While training costs usually capture public attention, inference demands are also contributing in significant computational, energy and…

Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental operation in the inference of sparse Large Language Models (LLMs). Because existing SpMV methods perform poorly under the low and unstructured sparsity (30-90%) commonly observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Vladimír Macko , Vladimír Boža

Large-scale machine learning (ML) models are increasingly being used in critical domains like education, lending, recruitment, healthcare, criminal justice, etc. However, the training, deployment, and utilization of these models demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Ding Zhu , Zhiqun Zuo , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili

Sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a widely used kernel in various graph, scientific computing and machine learning algorithms. In this paper, we consider SpGEMMs performed on hundreds of thousands of processors generating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Md Taufique Hussain , Oguz Selvitopi , Aydin Buluç , Ariful Azad

The sparse matrix-vector multiply (SpMV) operation is a key computational kernel in many simulations and linear solvers. The large communication requirements associated with a reference implementation of a parallel SpMV result in poor…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Amanda Bienz , William D. Gropp , Luke N. Olson

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are emerging as a powerful technique for modeling graph structures. Due to the sparsity of real-world graph data, GNN performance is limited by extensive sparse matrix multiplication (SpMM) operations involved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shenghao Qiu , You Liang , Zheng Wang

Matrix computations are a fundamental building-block of edge computing systems, with a major recent uptick in demand due to their use in AI/ML training and inference procedures. Existing approaches for distributing matrix computations…

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