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We present a novel, practical approach to speed up sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMVM) on GPUs. The novel key idea is to apply lossless entropy coding to further compress the sparse matrix when stored in one of the commonly…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Emil Schätzle , Tommaso Pegolotti , Markus Püschel

Sparse matrices and linear algebra are at the heart of scientific simulations. More than 70 sparse matrix storage formats have been developed over the years, targeting a wide range of hardware architectures and matrix types. Each format is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Chris Stylianou , Michele Weiland

Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (SpMV) has become a critical performance bottleneck in the local deployment of sparse Large Language Models (LLMs), where inference predominantly operates on workloads during the decoder phase with a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Junqing Lin , Jingwei Sun , Mingge Lu , Guangzhong Sun

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

The sparse matrix-vector product (SpMV) is a fundamental operation in many scientific applications from various fields. The High Performance Computing (HPC) community has therefore continuously invested a lot of effort to provide an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Berenger Bramas , Pavel Kus

Sparse general matrix-matrix multiplication (spGEMM) is an essential component in many scientific and data analytics applications. However, the sparsity pattern of the input matrices and the interaction of their patterns make spGEMM…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Orestis Zachariadis , Nitin Satpute , Juan Gómez-Luna , Joaquín Olivares

Iterative solutions of sparse linear systems and sparse eigenvalue problems have a fundamental role in vital fields of scientific research and engineering. The crucial computing kernel for such iterative solutions is the multiplication of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Thaha Mohammed , Rashid Mehmood

Generalized 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. Here we show that SpGEMM also yields efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Aydin Buluc , John Gilbert

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a central building block for scientific software and graph applications. Recently, heterogeneous processors composed of different types of cores attracted much attention because of their…

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

Sparse matrix-vector and matrix-matrix multiplication (SpMV and SpMM) are fundamental in both conventional (graph analytics, scientific computing) and emerging (sparse DNN, GNN) domains. Workload-balancing and parallel-reduction are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Guyue Huang , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

The multiplication of a sparse matrix with a dense vector (SpMV) is a key component in many numerical schemes and its performance is known to be severely limited by main memory access. Several numerical schemes require the multiplication of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Christie L. Alappat , Georg Hager , Olaf Schenk , Gerhard Wellein

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Mina Ashoury , Mohammad Loni , Farshad Khunjush , Masoud Daneshtalab

We introduce SpDISTAL, a compiler for sparse tensor algebra that targets distributed systems. SpDISTAL combines separate descriptions of tensor algebra expressions, sparse data structures, data distribution, and computation distribution.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Rohan Yadav , Alex Aiken , Fredrik Kjolstad

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

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…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hossein Albakri , Kazem Cheshmi

Sparse computations frequently appear in scientific simulations and the performance of these simulations rely heavily on the optimization of the sparse codes. The compact data structures and irregular computation patterns in sparse matrix…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Zachary Cetinic , Kazem Cheshmi , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Yusuke Nagasaka , Satoshi Matsuoka , Ariful Azad , Aydın Buluç

Despite numerous efforts for optimizing the performance of Sparse Matrix and Vector Multiplication (SpMV) on modern hardware architectures, few works are done to its sparse counterpart, Sparse Matrix and Sparse Vector Multiplication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Min Li , Yulong Ao , Chao Yang

Sparse Matrix Vector multiplication (SpMV) is one of basic building blocks in scientific computing, and acceleration of SpMV has been continuously required. In this research, we aim for accelerating SpMV on recent CPUs for sparse matrices…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Takeshi Fukaya , Koki Ishida , Akie Miura , Takeshi Iwashita , Hiroshi Nakashima

Scientific workloads have traditionally exploited high levels of sparsity to accelerate computation and reduce memory requirements. While deep neural networks can be made sparse, achieving practical speedups on GPUs is difficult because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Trevor Gale , Matei Zaharia , Cliff Young , Erich Elsen