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What is sparse tensor support in PyTorch?

Updated May 17, 2026

Short answer

Sparse tensors store only non-zero elements to save memory.

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PyTorch supports COO and CSR sparse formats, enabling efficient storage and computation for sparse matrices common in recommender systems and graph models.

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