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most citedA Study of BFLOAT16 for Deep Learning Training

66 citations · 191 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

astro-ph.SR2023

Inferring coupling strengths of mixed-mode oscillations in red-giant stars using deep learning

Siddharth Dhanpal, Othman Benomar, Shravan Hanasoge +3

Asteroseismology is a powerful tool that may be applied to shed light on stellar interiors and stellar evolution. Mixed modes, behaving as acoustic waves in the envelope and buoyan…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

AUTOSPARSE: Towards Automated Sparse Training of Deep Neural Networks

Abhisek Kundu, Naveen K. Mellempudi, Dharma Teja Vooturi +2

Sparse training is emerging as a promising avenue for reducing the computational cost of training neural networks. Several recent studies have proposed pruning methods using learna…

cs.DC2023

Harnessing Deep Learning and HPC Kernels via High-Level Loop and Tensor Abstractions on CPU Architectures

Evangelos Georganas, Dhiraj Kalamkar, Kirill Voronin +5

During the past decade, Deep Learning (DL) algorithms, programming systems and hardware have converged with the High Performance Computing (HPC) counterparts. Nevertheless, the pro…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 13 cited

Measuring frequency and period separations in red-giant stars using machine learning

Siddharth Dhanpal, Othman Benomar, Shravan Hanasoge +4

Asteroseismology is used to infer the interior physics of stars. The \textit{Kepler} and TESS space missions have provided a vast data set of red-giant light curves, which may be u…

cs.AI2021★ 3 cited

Tensor Processing Primitives: A Programming Abstraction for Efficiency and Portability in Deep Learning & HPC Workloads

Evangelos Georganas, Dhiraj Kalamkar, Sasikanth Avancha +16

During the past decade, novel Deep Learning (DL) algorithms, workloads and hardware have been developed to tackle a wide range of problems. Despite the advances in workload and har…

cs.LG2019★ 3 cited

K-TanH: Efficient TanH For Deep Learning

Abhisek Kundu, Alex Heinecke, Dhiraj Kalamkar +7

We propose K-TanH, a novel, highly accurate, hardware efficient approximation of popular activation function TanH for Deep Learning. K-TanH consists of parameterized low-precision…

cs.LG2019★ 66 cited

A Study of BFLOAT16 for Deep Learning Training

Dhiraj Kalamkar, Dheevatsa Mudigere, Naveen Mellempudi +16

This paper presents the first comprehensive empirical study demonstrating the efficacy of the Brain Floating Point (BFLOAT16) half-precision format for Deep Learning training acros…

cs.IT2017★ 6 cited

Ternary Residual Networks

Abhisek Kundu, Kunal Banerjee, Naveen Mellempudi +4

Sub-8-bit representation of DNNs incur some discernible loss of accuracy despite rigorous (re)training at low-precision. Such loss of accuracy essentially makes them equivalent to…

cs.LG2017★ 61 cited

Ternary Neural Networks with Fine-Grained Quantization

Naveen Mellempudi, Abhisek Kundu, Dheevatsa Mudigere +3

We propose a novel fine-grained quantization (FGQ) method to ternarize pre-trained full precision models, while also constraining activations to 8 and 4-bits. Using this method, we…

cs.LG2017★ 23 cited

Mixed Low-precision Deep Learning Inference using Dynamic Fixed Point

Naveen Mellempudi, Abhisek Kundu, Dipankar Das +2

We propose a cluster-based quantization method to convert pre-trained full precision weights into ternary weights with minimal impact on the accuracy. In addition, we also constrai…

cs.DS2015

A Randomized Rounding Algorithm for Sparse PCA

Kimon Fountoulakis, Abhisek Kundu, Eugenia-Maria Kontopoulou +1

We present and analyze a simple, two-step algorithm to approximate the optimal solution of the sparse PCA problem. Our approach first solves a L1 penalized version of the NP-hard s…

cs.LG2015★ 1 cited

Approximating Sparse PCA from Incomplete Data

Abhisek Kundu, Petros Drineas, Malik Magdon-Ismail

We study how well one can recover sparse principal components of a data matrix using a sketch formed from a few of its elements. We show that for a wide class of optimization probl…

cs.IT2015

Recovering PCA from Hybrid- Sparse Sampling of Data Elements

Abhisek Kundu, Petros Drineas, Malik Magdon-Ismail

This paper addresses how well we can recover a data matrix when only given a few of its elements. We present a randomized algorithm that element-wise sparsifies the data, retaining…

cs.IT2015

Relaxed Leverage Sampling for Low-rank Matrix Completion

Abhisek Kundu

We consider the problem of exact recovery of any matrix of rank from a small number of observed entries via the standard nuclear norm minimization framework.…

cs.IT2014★ 10 cited

A Note on Randomized Element-wise Matrix Sparsification

Abhisek Kundu, Petros Drineas

Given a matrix A \in R^{m x n}, we present a randomized algorithm that sparsifies A by retaining some of its elements by sampling them according to a distribution that depends on b…

math.NA2013★ 3 cited

Identifying Influential Entries in a Matrix

Abhisek Kundu, Srinivas Nambirajan, Petros Drineas

For any matrix A in R^(m x n) of rank ρ, we present a probability distribution over the entries of A (the element-wise leverage scores of equation (2)) that reveals the most influe…