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48 results for GPU Computing

Massively parallel architectures such as the GPU are becoming increasingly important due to the recent proliferation of data. In this paper, we propose a key class of hybrid parallel graphlet algorithms that leverages multiple CPUs and GPUs simultaneously for computing k-vertex induced subgraph statistics (called graph…

2016-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We describe the multi-GPU gradient boosting algorithm implemented in the XGBoost library (https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost). Our algorithm allows fast, scalable training on multi-GPU systems with all of the features of the XGBoost library. We employ data compression techniques to minimise the usage of scarce GPU memory …

2018-06-29abs ↗pdf ↗

GPU speeds up Monte Carlo simulations for large time steps.

problem Slow convergence and inaccurate solutions with large time steps in Monte Carlo simulations.
method Generalizes the Seven League scheme for GPU acceleration.
result Significantly improved computational speed.

New GPU kernels boost deep learning speed and memory efficiency.

problem Sparse deep learning matrices are not well-suited for existing sparse kernels.
method Identified favorable properties of sparse matrices from deep learning, developed high-performance GPU kernels for sparse matrix operations.
result 27% of single-precision peak performance on Nvidia V100 GPUs achieved with new kernels.

Training modern deep learning models requires large amounts of computation, often provided by GPUs. Scaling computation from one GPU to many can enable much faster training and research progress but entails two complications. First, the training library must support inter-GPU communication. Depending on the particular …

2018-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work, we present an extension of Gaussian process (GP) models with sophisticated parallelization and GPU acceleration. The parallelization scheme arises naturally from the modular computational structure w.r.t. datapoints in the sparse Gaussian process formulation. Additionally, the computational bottleneck is …

2014-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Stochastic simulation techniques employed for the analysis of portfolios of insurance/reinsurance risk, often referred to as `Aggregate Risk Analysis', can benefit from exploiting state-of-the-art high-performance computing platforms. In this paper, parallel methods to speed-up aggregate risk analysis for supporting re…

2013-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a GPU-based system for training massive deep learning models in ads systems.

problem Training massive deep learning models with terabyte-scale parameters in ads systems.
method Hierarchical GPU parameter server with 3-layer storage (GPU High-Bandwidth Memory, CPU main memory, SSD).
result 4-node hierarchical GPU parameter server trains a model 2X faster than a 150-node in-memory system.

SparseRT accelerates sparse computations on GPUs for deep learning inference.

problem Efficiently handling unstructured sparsity patterns on GPUs for deep learning.
method SparseRT, a code generator that leverages unstructured sparsity for accelerating sparse linear algebra operations.
result Geometric mean speedups of 3.4x at 90% sparsity and 5.4x at 95% sparsity for 1x1 convolutions and fully connected layers.

In this paper, we present a novel massively parallel algorithm for accelerating the decision tree building procedure on GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), which is a crucial step in Gradient Boosted Decision Tree (GBDT) and random forests training. Previous GPU based tree building algorithms are based on parallel multi-…

2017-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

On-device inference of machine learning models for mobile phones is desirable due to its lower latency and increased privacy. Running such a compute-intensive task solely on the mobile CPU, however, can be difficult due to limited computing power, thermal constraints, and energy consumption. App developers and research…

2019-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular tool for analyzing discrete count data such as text and images. Applications require LDA to handle both large datasets and a large number of topics. Though distributed CPU systems have been used, GPU-based systems have emerged as a promising alternative because of the high…

2016-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Polylab is a MATLAB toolbox for multivariate polynomial modeling.

problem Efficiently modeling and manipulating multivariate polynomials across CPU and GPU.
method Unified symbolic-numeric interface, three aligned classes (MPOLY, MPOLY_GPU, MPOLY_HP), polynomial operations, differentiation, matrix computations.
result Advantages of MPOLY-HP for reduction-heavy simplification and large-scale computations, and the stochastic log-determinant variant for sparse regimes.

Signatory calculates signature and logsignature transforms efficiently on CPU and GPU.

problem Efficient computation of signature and logsignature transforms for machine learning.
method CPU and GPU parallelism, backpropagation, efficient precomputation strategies, algorithmic improvements.
result Substantial speedups on CPU and GPU, including real-world applications.

Performance-aware channel pruning improves CNN on embedded GPUs.

problem Inefficient channel pruning on embedded GPUs leads to performance slowdowns.
method Evaluate higher-level libraries that analyze input characteristics for optimized code generation.
result Performance-aware pruning can achieve significant performance speedups, up to 10x.

Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) require huge GPU memory when training on modern image/video databases. Unfortunately, the GPU memory is physically finite, which limits the image resolutions and batch sizes that could be used in training for better DNN performance. Unlike solutions that require physically upgrade GPUs, the G…

2018-07-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper improves financial trading models using GPU parallelism.

problem Challenges in policy instability and sampling bottlenecks in reinforcement learning for financial tasks.
method Revisits ensemble methods with massively parallel simulations on GPUs.
result Significantly improved computational efficiency and robustness of financial decision-making strategies.

DoRA improves adaptation efficiency for large models by factoring norms and fusing kernels.

problem High-rank DoRA is computationally expensive and infeasible on common GPUs.
method Factored norms and fused Triton kernels to reduce memory and speed up computation.
result Fused implementation is up to 2.0x faster for inference and 1.9x faster for gradient computation.

Alternatives to recurrent neural networks, in particular, architectures based on attention or convolutions, have been gaining momentum for processing input sequences. In spite of their relevance, the computational properties of these alternatives have not yet been fully explored. We study the computational power of two…

2019-01-10abs ↗pdf ↗