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Hierarchical matrix approximations have gained significant traction in the machine learning and scientific community as they exploit available low-rank structures in kernel methods to compress the kernel matrix. The resulting compressed matrix, HMatrix, is used to reduce the computational complexity of operations such as HMatrix-matrix multiplications with tuneable accuracy in an evaluation phase. Existing implementations of HMatrix evaluations do not preserve locality and often lead to unbalanced parallel execution with high synchronization. Also, current solutions require the compression phase to re-execute if the kernel method or the required accuracy change. In this work, we describe MatRox, a framework that uses novel structure analysis strategies, blocking and coarsen, with code specialization and a storage format to improve locality and create load-balanced parallel tasks for HMatrix-matrix multiplications. Modularization of the matrix compression phase enables the reuse of computations when there are changes to the input accuracy and the kernel function. The MatRox-generated code for matrix-matrix multiplication is 2.98×, 1.60×, and 5.98× faster than library implementations available in GOFMM, SMASH, and STRUMPACK respectively. Additionally, the ability to reuse portions of the compression computation for changes to the accuracy leads to up to 2.64× improvement with MatRox over five changes to accuracy using GOFMM.

Wed 26 Feb

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11:20 - 12:35
Matrix Multiplication and Approximation (Mediterranean Ballroom)Main Conference
Chair(s): Albert Cohen Google
11:20
25m
Talk
spECK: Accelerating GPU Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication Through Lightweight Analysis
Main Conference
Mathias Parger Graz University of Technology, Martin Winter Graz University of Technology, Austria, Daniel Mlakar Graz University of Technology, Austria, Markus Steinberger Graz University of Technology, Austria
11:45
25m
Talk
A Novel Data Transformation and Execution Strategy for Accelerating Sparse Matrix Multiplication on GPUs
Main Conference
Peng Jiang The University of Iowa, Changwan Hong The Ohio State University, Gagan Agrawal The Ohio State University
12:10
25m
Talk
MatRox: Modular approach for improving data locality in Hierarchical (Mat)rix App(Rox)imation
Main Conference
Bangtian Liu University of Toronto, Kazem Cheshmi University of Toronto, Saeed Soori University of Toronto, Michelle Strout University of Arizona, Maryam Mehri Dehnavi University of Toronto