# cupy-sparse-tensor

**Repository Path**: cmpute/cupy-sparse-tensor

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: cupy-sparse-tensor
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Python
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
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- **Created**: 2018-05-23
- **Last Updated**: 2023-01-29

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## README

# Multi-dimensional Sparse Tensor support in Cupy

## Code reference
- [Sparse Matrix in scipy](https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/sparse.html)
- [Sparse Tensor like scipy.sparse](https://github.com/pydata/sparse)
- [Tensor that support sparsity in arbitary dimensions](https://github.com/tensor-compiler/taco)

## Sparse Tensor in various DL frameworks
- [TensorFlow](https://www.tensorflow.org/api_guides/python/sparse_ops) (2D)
- [MXNet](https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/api/python/ndarray/sparse.html) (2D)
- [PyTorch](https://pytorch.org/docs/master/sparse.html) (2D)
- [Caffe2](https://caffe2.ai/docs/sparse-operations.html) (ND?)
- PaddlePaddle (None)

## Related discussions
- [tensorflow #9210](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/9210)
- [taco #108](https://github.com/tensor-compiler/taco/issues/108)

## Related Papers
- Liu, B., Wang, M., Foroosh, H., Tappen, M., & Pensky, M. (2015). [Sparse convolutional neural networks](https://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/content_cvpr_2015/papers/Liu_Sparse_Convolutional_Neural_2015_CVPR_paper.pdf). In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 806-814).
- Liu, B., Wen, C., Sarwate, A. D., & Dehnavi, M. M. (2017, September). [A Unified Optimization Approach for Sparse Tensor Operations on GPUs](http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mm2366/papers/Cluster17.pdf). In Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), 2017 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 47-57). IEEE.
- Ren, M., Pokrovsky, A., Yang, B., & Urtasun, R. (2018). [SBNet: Sparse Blocks Network for Fast Inference](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.02108). arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02108.

# Other targets
- Add cython `cimport` support for Cupy