2 papers
cs.LG2026
FlashAttention for Scalable Vector Architectures
Sonia Rani Gupta, Nikela Papadopoulou, Miquel Pericàs
Inference with transformer models on CPUs is increasingly important, especially for Small Language Models (SLMs), where vector architectures are emerging as a promising execution s…
cs.DC2023
Challenges and Opportunities in the Co-design of Convolutions and RISC-V Vector Processors
Sonia Rani Gupta, Nikela Papadopoulou, Miquel Pericàs
The RISC-V "V" extension introduces vector processing to the RISC-V architecture. Unlike most SIMD extensions, it supports long vectors which can result in significant improvement…