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Deep Kernel Fusion for Transformers

Machine Learning 2026-02-13 v1

Abstract

Agentic LLM inference with long contexts is increasingly limited by memory bandwidth rather than compute. In this setting, SwiGLU MLP blocks, whose large weights exceed cache capacity, become a major yet under-optimized bottleneck. We propose DeepFusionKernel, a deeply fused kernel that cuts HBM traffic and boosts cache reuse, delivering up to 13.2% speedup on H100 and 9.7% on A100 over SGLang. Integrated with SGLang and paired with a kernel scheduler, DeepFusionKernel ensures consistent accelerations over generation lengths, while remaining adaptable to diverse models, inference configurations, and hardware platforms.

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@article{arxiv.2602.11808,
  title  = {Deep Kernel Fusion for Transformers},
  author = {Zixi Zhang and Zhiwen Mo and Yiren Zhao and Robert Mullins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.11808},
  year   = {2026}
}
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