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Does cuSPARSELt not support SpMV operations?

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As shown in the figure, during the decoding phase, the 2:4 sparsity model is about 12% slower than the dense model, the questions are as follows:

  1. Is the decode phase dominated by GEMV / small‑N GEMM operations, and does cuSPARSELt not support SpMV operations?
  2. Are there any sparse kernels or recommended practices for GEMV (matrix‑vector) that can take advantage of 2:4 sparsity?

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