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Polykarpos Thomadakis
dblp:185/0587
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3ranked-venue papers
1as first author
3since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0002-4299-570XORCID · corroborated
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Systems, architecture and hardware · 3 · 1 first-author · 3 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
High-performance computing · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
High-performance computing › sparse linear algebra
sparse matrix computation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | LiteForm: Lightweight and Automatic Format Composition for Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication on GPUs · HPDC 2025 |
High-performance computing › sparse linear algebra
sparse matrix multiplication |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | LiteForm: Lightweight and Automatic Format Composition for Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication on GPUs · HPDC 2025 |
High-performance computing › performance optimization
auto-tuning |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | LiteForm: Lightweight and Automatic Format Composition for Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication on GPUs · HPDC 2025 |
High-performance computing
performance optimization |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | LiteForm: Lightweight and Automatic Format Composition for Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication on GPUs · HPDC 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
lightweight prediction model · 0.9cost model · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | LiteForm: Lightweight and Automatic Format Composition for Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication on GPUsabstractGraphics Processing Units (GPUs) have excelled in parallelism and high throughput for dense, regular computations in modern computing. However, sparse computations, such as sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpMM), are essential for large-scale, data-intensive applications, where much of the data is inherently sparse. The challenge lies in the sparsity and irregularity of sparse matrices or tensors, which makes achieving high performance on GPU architectures difficult. Consequently, the utilization of suitable sparse data formats is imperative for achieving computational efficiency. Traditional computational libraries often require input in specific formats, which may not accommodate the diversity of matrix characteristics or the varying sparse patterns within a single matrix. While some frameworks support composable formats, they often lack guidance on how to compose these formats effectively or require costly auto-tuning for optimal performance. In this paper, we introduce LiteForm, a novel, lightweight framework designed to automatically compose sparse formats for SpMM computation. We start by presenting CELL, a composable format featuring a three-level blockwise representation that optimizes sparse data for GPUs. LiteForm uses this format and composes it based on the input's characteristics. First, it employs a lightweight model trained to predict whether the CELL format will yield good performance for a given sparse input matrix. Then LiteForm uses a low-overhead predictor and an SpMM cost model to automatically configure the format according to the characteristics of the input matrix. Our experimental evaluation indicates that LiteForm achieves a geometric mean speedup of 2.06×, 1.81×, 1.77×, and 4.18× in comparison to cuSPARSE, Sputnik, dgSPARSE, and TACO, respectively, and demonstrates speedups of 1.26× and 1.52× over state-of-the-art SparseTIR and STile, respectively. Polykarpos Thomadakis, Jacques A. Pienaar, Gokcen Kestor |
HPDC | 2 |
| 2023 | Toward runtime support for unstructured and dynamic exascale-era applications
Polykarpos Thomadakis, Nikos Chrisochoides |
J. Supercomput. | 1 |
| 2022 | Tasking framework for adaptive speculative parallel mesh generation
Christos Tsolakis, Polykarpos Thomadakis, Nikos Chrisochoides |
J. Supercomput. | 2 |