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20182026
most citedCapstan: A Vector RDA for Sparsity

37 citations · 52 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.LG2026

AttnFuse: A Composable DSL for Compiling Attentions to Fused GPU Kernels

Varun Kumar Dasoju, Tian Zhao

Modern AI systems are built on the Transformer architecture, whose core operation, attention, accounts for the majority of computation and memory cost. Researchers continually prop…

cs.LG2026

Hybrid JIT-CUDA Graph Optimization for Low-Latency Large Language Model Inference

Divakar Kumar Yadav, Tian Zhao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance across natural language and multimodal tasks, yet their practical deployment remains constrained by inference latency…

cs.LG2026

Evaluating CUDA Tile for AI Workloads on Hopper and Blackwell GPUs

Divakar Kumar Yadav, Tian Zhao, Deepak Kumar

NVIDIA's CUDA Tile (CuTile) introduces a Python-based, tile-centric abstraction for GPU kernel development that aims to simplify programming while retaining Tensor Core and Tensor…

cs.PL2022★ 4 cited

Stardust: Compiling Sparse Tensor Algebra to a Reconfigurable Dataflow Architecture

Olivia Hsu, Alexander Rucker, Tian Zhao +2

We introduce Stardust, a compiler that compiles sparse tensor algebra to reconfigurable dataflow architectures (RDAs). Stardust introduces new user-provided data representation and…

cs.AR2022★ 1 cited

Efficient Memory Partitioning in Software Defined Hardware

Matthew Feldman, Tian Zhao, Kunle Olukotun

As programmers turn to software-defined hardware (SDH) to maintain a high level of productivity while programming hardware to run complex algorithms, heavy-lifting must be done by…

cs.AR2021★ 37 cited

Capstan: A Vector RDA for Sparsity

Alexander Rucker, Matthew Vilim, Tian Zhao +3

This paper proposes Capstan: a scalable, parallel-patterns-based, reconfigurable dataflow accelerator (RDA) for sparse and dense tensor applications. Instead of designing for one a…

cs.DC2019★ 10 cited

Serving Recurrent Neural Networks Efficiently with a Spatial Accelerator

Tian Zhao, Yaqi Zhang, Kunle Olukotun

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) applications form a major class of AI-powered, low-latency data center workloads. Most execution models for RNN acceleration break computation graphs…

cs.LG2018

Analysis of DAWNBench, a Time-to-Accuracy Machine Learning Performance Benchmark

Cody Coleman, Daniel Kang, Deepak Narayanan +7

Researchers have proposed hardware, software, and algorithmic optimizations to improve the computational performance of deep learning. While some of these optimizations perform the…