Ars Technica

Sparse Matrix Multiplication

Ah. . .matrix multiplication. Checking for zeroes will speed you up quite a bit if the matrix is sparse enough. Testing for 0s requires getting two values from memory and two comparisons (or one, with ...
Semiconductor Engineering

SparseP: Towards Efficient Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication on Real Processing-In-Memory Systems

“Several manufacturers have already started to commercialize near-bank Processing-In-Memory (PIM) architectures. Near-bank PIM architectures place simple cores close to DRAM banks and can yield ...
Nature

Sparse Matrix Computation and Optimization Techniques

Sparse matrices underpin a vast range of scientific and engineering applications, from finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics to graph processing and machine learning. By encoding ...
Design-Reuse

A custom RISC-V vector instruction to accelerate structured-sparse matrix multiplications

A novel AI-acceleration paper presents a method to optimize sparse matrix multiplication for machine learning models, particularly focusing on structured sparsity. Structured sparsity involves a ...