gpu support single sparse matrix?
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I can't create a single-precision sparse matrix on the GPU. Does version 2017a allow that yet?
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Joss Knight
2017-3-15
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You can't create a single-precision sparse matrix on the CPU either, so the answer is no, this is not supported. Do you have an application in mind?
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Tung-Duong
2017-3-15
Joss Knight
2017-3-16
The reason that MATLAB never added support for sparse single is because there aren't very many interesting sparse problems for which single precision isn't deleteriously inaccurate. So most likely you wouldn't want to be using single anyway.
Tung-Duong
2017-3-16
Joss Knight
2017-3-21
I'm not an expert, but I understand that system solves in single precision are unreliable for typical sparse systems because they tend to be internally poorly conditioned.
I've added your request to an existing one for the implementation of non-double sparse arrays.
Thomas Richner
2017-12-11
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2017-12-11
I could use a sparse single matrix both for CPU and GPU. Applications that don't involve matrix division but rather run the forwards can safely use single sparse matrices. In my case I'm modeling biological neural networks. This involves integrating thousands of ODEs through time. There are up to n^2 connections among n neurons, but only a low percentage of neurons are connected, so it is sparse. The state of each synapse can be stored as a single. Integration error for very long simulations is not a problem, because the overall behavior of the system is analyzed. For example, when studying Lorenz's strange attractor, adding more bits of precision isn't all that important--understanding the nature of the nonlinear dynamics is more important. So, yes, there are good uses of sparse single matrices in forward models, but perhaps not so in inverse models.
Tung-Duong
2017-12-12
Thomas Richner
2019-7-3
2 years later and I still miss seriously miss single and half precision sparse every day. Sad. It isn't only about memory savings--the single precision compute performance of a nvidia 1080 ti is 10x that of double precision.
I'm hoping that with deep nerual nets gaining traction in Matlab, they might find reason to implement single and half precision sparse arrays. Pytorch has these.
Until then I'm left either converting back and forth between double and single (which is slow) or running entirely with double with smaller simulations.
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Mike Croucher
2025-8-13
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Single Sparse is now supported, starting with R2025a on both the CPU and GPU. A detailed write up, including performance benchmarks, can be found at New in MATLAB: Single precision sparse matrices » The MATLAB Blog - MATLAB & Simulink
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