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Sparse matrix-sparse matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a key kernel in many scientific applications and graph workloads. Unfortunately, SpGEMM is bottlenecked by data movement due to its irregular memory access patterns. Significant work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Abdullah Al Raqibul Islam , Helen Xu , Dong Dai , Aydın Buluç

Machine learning is increasingly used to improve decisions within branch-and-bound algorithms for mixed-integer programming. Many existing approaches rely on deep learning, which often requires very large training datasets and substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Selin Bayramoğlu , George L Nemhauser , Nikolaos V Sahinidis

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have emerged as a fundamental technology for machine learning. High performance and extreme energy efficiency are critical for deployments of CNNs in a wide range of situations, especially mobile…

Spectral-domain CNNs have been shown to be more efficient than traditional spatial CNNs in terms of reducing computation complexity. However they come with a `kernel explosion' problem that, even after compression (pruning), imposes a high…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yue Niu , Rajgopal Kannan , Ajitesh Srivastava , Viktor Prasanna

Sparse deep learning has reduced computation significantly, but its irregular non-zero data distribution complicates the data flow and hinders data reuse, increasing on-chip SRAM access and thus power consumption of the chip. This paper…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kai-Chieh Hsu , Tian-Sheuan Chang

HipMCL is a high-performance distributed memory implementation of the popular Markov Cluster Algorithm (MCL) and can cluster large-scale networks within hours using a few thousand CPU-equipped nodes. It relies on sparse matrix computations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Oguz Selvitopi , Md Taufique Hussain , Ariful Azad , Aydın Buluç

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP), but their size creates computational bottlenecks. We introduce a novel approach to create accurate, sparse foundational versions of performant LLMs that…

Personalized recommendations are the backbone machine learning (ML) algorithm that powers several important application domains (e.g., ads, e-commerce, etc) serviced from cloud datacenters. Sparse embedding layers are a crucial building…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Ranggi Hwang , Taehun Kim , Youngeun Kwon , Minsoo Rhu

The growing demand for efficient, high-performance processing in machine learning (ML) and image processing has made hardware accelerators, such as GPUs and Data Streaming Accelerators (DSAs), increasingly essential. These accelerators…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Qunyou Liu , Marina Zapater , David Atienza

Sparse matrix multiplication operators (i.e., SpMM and SDDMM) are widely used in deep learning and scientific computing. Modern accelerators are commonly equipped with Tensor Core Units (TCUs) and CUDA cores to accelerate sparse operators.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jinliang Shi , Shigang Li , Youxuan Xu , Xueying Wang , Rongtian Fu , Zhi Ma , Tong Wu

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

The push for greater efficiency in AI computation has given rise to an array of accelerator architectures that increasingly challenge the GPU's long-standing dominance. In this work, we provide a quantitative view of this evolving landscape…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Alicia Golden , Carole-Jean Wu , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks

Dense matrix multiply (MM) serves as one of the most heavily used kernels in deep learning applications. To cope with the high computation demands of these applications, heterogeneous architectures featuring both FPGA and dedicated ASIC…

In the context of cryptanalysis, computing discrete logarithms in large cyclic groups using index-calculus-based methods, such as the number field sieve or the function field sieve, requires solving large sparse systems of linear equations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Hamza Jeljeli

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. The scaling of existing parallel implementations of SpGEMM is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ariful Azad , Grey Ballard , Aydin Buluc , James Demmel , Laura Grigori , Oded Schwartz , Sivan Toledo , Samuel Williams

Structured sparsity has been proposed as an efficient way to prune the complexity of modern Machine Learning (ML) applications and to simplify the handling of sparse data in hardware. The acceleration of ML models - for both training and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-14 V. Titopoulos , K. Alexandridis , C. Peltekis , C. Nicopoulos , G. Dimitrakopoulos

Distributed Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental operation in high-performance computing and deep learning applications. The major performance bottleneck in distributed SpMM lies in substantial communication overhead,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chen Zhuang , Lingqi Zhang , Benjamin Brock , Du Wu , Peng Chen , Toshio Endo , Satoshi Matsuoka , Mohamed Wahib

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

This paper proposes a new hardware accelerator for sparse convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by building a hardware unit to perform the Image to Column (IM2COL) transformation of the input feature map coupled with a systolic array-based…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Mohammadreza Soltaniyeh , Richard P. Martin , Santosh Nagarakatte

In this paper, we demonstrate a compiler that can optimize sparse and recurrent neural networks, both of which are currently outside of the scope of existing neural network compilers (sparse neural networks here stand for networks that can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Riyadh Baghdadi , Abdelkader Nadir Debbagh , Kamel Abdous , Fatima Zohra Benhamida , Alex Renda , Jonathan Elliott Frankle , Michael Carbin , Saman Amarasinghe