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Operator fusion, a key technique to improve data locality and alleviate GPU memory bandwidth pressure, often fails to extend to the fusion of multiple compute-intensive operators due to saturated computation throughput. However, the…

Large deep learning models have demonstrated strong ability to solve many tasks across a wide range of applications. Those large models typically require training and inference to be distributed. Tensor parallelism is a common technique…

Sparse Matrix-matrix Multiplication (SpMM) and Sampled Dense-dense Matrix Multiplication (SDDMM) are important sparse operators in scientific computing and deep learning. Tensor Core Units (TCUs) enhance modern accelerators with superior…

The size and compute characteristics of modern large language models have led to an increased interest in developing specialized kernels tailored for particular training and inference workloads. Existing kernels primarily optimize for…

Efficient execution of deep learning workloads on dataflow architectures is crucial for overcoming memory bottlenecks and maximizing performance. While streaming intermediate results between computation kernels can significantly improve…

The computational sparsity of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models enables sub-linear growth in compute cost as model size increases, thus offering a scalable path to training massive neural networks. However, existing implementations suffer…

Non-Markovian (renewal) epidemic simulation on multi-million-node contact networks is essential for realistic forecasting under general age-dependent holding-time distributions (log-normal, Weibull, Erlang, and similar), but the…

Late-interaction retrieval (ColBERT, ColPali) scores a query against a document with the MaxSim operator: for every query token, the maximum similarity over the document tokens, summed over query tokens. The standard implementation…

Large language model (LLM) decoding suffers from high latency due to fragmented execution across operators and heavy reliance on off-chip memory for data exchange and reduction. This execution model limits opportunities for fusion and…

The increasing size and complexity of modern deep neural networks (DNNs) pose significant challenges for on-device inference on mobile GPUs, with limited memory and computational resources. Existing DNN acceleration frameworks primarily…

Many hardware vendors have introduced specialized deep neural networks (DNN) accelerators owing to their superior performance and efficiency. As such, how to generate and optimize the code for the hardware accelerator becomes an important…

As the landscape of deep neural networks evolves, heterogeneous dataflow accelerators, in the form of multi-core architectures or chiplet-based designs, promise more flexibility and higher inference performance through scalability. So far,…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as the core enabler of many major applications on mobile devices. To achieve high accuracy, DNN models have become increasingly deep with hundreds or even thousands of operator layers, leading to…

Kernels are executable code segments and kernel fusion is a technique for combing the segments in a coherent manner to improve execution time. For the first time, we have developed a technique to fuse image processing kernels to be executed…

Depthwise and pointwise convolutions have fewer parameters and perform fewer operations than standard convolutions. As a result, they have become increasingly used in various compact DNNs, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and…

Novel methods are presented in this initial study for the fusion of GPU kernels in the artificial compressibility method (ACM), using tensor product elements with constant Jacobians and flux reconstruction. This is made possible through the…

Existing GPU libraries often struggle to fully exploit the parallel resources and on-chip memory (SRAM) of GPUs when chaining multiple GPU functions as individual kernels. While Kernel Fusion (KF) techniques like Horizontal Fusion (HF) and…

We show in this work that memory intensive computations can result in severe performance problems due to off-chip memory access and CPU-GPU context switch overheads in a wide range of deep learning models. For this problem, current…

Performance optimization is the art of continuous seeking a harmonious mapping between the application domain and hardware. Recent years have witnessed a surge of deep learning (DL) applications in industry. Conventional wisdom for…

As AI chips incorporate numerous parallelized cores to scale deep learning (DL) computing, inter-core communication is enabled recently by employing high-bandwidth and low-latency interconnect links on the chip (e.g., Graphcore IPU). It…