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Generalized Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpGEMM) is a ubiquitous task in various engineering and scientific applications. However, inner product based SpGENN introduces redundant input fetches for mismatched nonzero operands, while…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zhekai Zhang , Hanrui Wang , Song Han , William J. Dally

Sparse matrix multiplication is an important kernel for large-scale graph processing and other data-intensive applications. In this paper, we implement various asynchronous, RDMA-based sparse times dense (SpMM) and sparse times sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Benjamin Brock , Aydın Buluç , Katherine Yelick

We design and develop a work-efficient multithreaded algorithm for sparse matrix-sparse vector multiplication (SpMSpV) where the matrix, the input vector, and the output vector are all sparse. SpMSpV is an important primitive in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Ariful Azad , Aydin Buluc

We consider a sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) setting where one matrix is square and the other is tall and skinny. This special variant, called TS-SpGEMM, has important applications in multi-source breadth-first search,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Isuru Ranawaka , Md Taufique Hussain , Charles Block , Gerasimos Gerogiannis , Josep Torrellas , Ariful Azad

In this paper, we research the run-time sparse matrix data transformation from Compressed Row Storage (CRS) to Coordinate (COO) storage and an ELL (ELLPACK/ITPACK) format with OpenMP parallelization for sparse matrix-vector multiplication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Takahiro Katagiri , Masahiko Sato

The Sparse GEneral Matrix-Matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) $C = A \times B$ is a fundamental routine extensively used in domains like machine learning or graph analytics. Despite its relevance, the efficient execution of SpGEMM on vector…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Valentin Le Fèvre , Marc Casas

Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (SpMV) is a critical operation for the iterative solver of Finite Element Methods on computer simulation. Since the SpMV operation is a memory-bound algorithm, the efficiency of data movements heavily…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Chong Chen

We present new adaptive format for storing sparse matrices on GPU. We compare it with several other formats including CUSPARSE which is today probably the best choice for processing of sparse matrices on GPU in CUDA. Contrary to CUSPARSE…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Martin Heller , Tomáš Oberhuber

In this paper, we focus on three sparse matrix operations that are relevant for machine learning applications, namely, the sparse-dense matrix multiplication (SPMM), the sampled dense-dense matrix multiplication (SDDMM), and the composition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Mohammad Zubair , Christoph Bauinger

Tensor algebra is widely used in many applications, such as scientific computing, machine learning, and data analytics. The tensors represented real-world data are usually large and sparse. There are tens of storage formats designed for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Ruiqin Tian , Luanzheng Guo , Jiajia Li , Bin Ren , Gokcen Kestor

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has recently attracted significant attention as both a cryptographic primitive and a systems challenge. Given the latest advances in accelerated computing, FHE presents a promising opportunity for…

In recent years, novel AI accelerators have emerged as promising alternatives to GPU for AI model training and inference tasks. One such accelerator, the Cerebras CS-3, achieves strong performance on large model training as well as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Milan Shah , Sheng Di , Michela Becchi

Real-world applications have high demands for semantic segmentation methods. Although semantic segmentation has made remarkable leap-forwards with deep learning, the performance of real-time methods is not satisfactory. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Juncai Peng , Yi Liu , Shiyu Tang , Yuying Hao , Lutao Chu , Guowei Chen , Zewu Wu , Zeyu Chen , Zhiliang Yu , Yuning Du , Qingqing Dang , Baohua Lai , Qiwen Liu , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu , Yanjun Ma

Large Language Models (LLMs) are difficult to fully fine-tune (e.g., with instructions or human feedback) due to their sheer number of parameters. A family of parameter-efficient sparse fine-tuning methods have proven promising in terms of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Alan Ansell , Ivan Vulić , Hannah Sterz , Anna Korhonen , Edoardo M. Ponti

In recent years, Transformer-based language models have become the standard approach for natural language processing tasks. However, stringent throughput and latency requirements in industrial applications are limiting their adoption. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Haihao Shen , Hengyu Meng , Bo Dong , Zhe Wang , Ofir Zafrir , Yi Ding , Yu Luo , Hanwen Chang , Qun Gao , Ziheng Wang , Guy Boudoukh , Moshe Wasserblat

This paper introduces SpaPool, a novel pooling method that combines the strengths of both dense and sparse techniques for a graph neural network. SpaPool groups vertices into an adaptive number of clusters, leveraging the benefits of both…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Rodrigue Govan , Romane Scherrer , Philippe Fournier-Viger , Nazha Selmaoui-Folcher

Sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a widely used kernel in various graph, scientific computing and machine learning algorithms. It is well known that SpGEMM is a memory-bound operation, and its peak performance is expected to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Zhixiang Gu , Jose Moreira , David Edelsohn , Ariful Azad

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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Huize Li , Tulika Mitra

Sparse tensor computing is a core computational part of numerous applications in areas such as data science, graph processing, and scientific computing. Sparse tensors offer the potential of skipping unnecessary computations caused by zero…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Midia Reshadi , David Gregg

Inference of standard convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on FPGAs often incurs high latency and a long initiation interval due to the deep nested loops required to densely convolve every input pixel regardless of its feature value.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ho Fung Tsoi , Dylan Rankin , Vladimir Loncar , Philip Harris