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LLM-based coding agents can generate functionally correct GPU kernels, yet their performance remains far below hand-optimized libraries on critical computations such as matrix multiplication, attention, and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE). Peak…

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The global demand for sustainable protein sources has accelerated the need for intelligent tools that can rapidly process and synthesise domain-specific scientific knowledge. In this study, we present a proof-of-concept multi-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Alexander D. Kalian , Jaewook Lee , Stefan P. Johannesson , Lennart Otte , Christer Hogstrand , Miao Guo

The challenge of mapping AI architectures to GPU hardware is creating a critical bottleneck in AI progress. Despite substantial efforts, hand-written custom kernels fail to meet their theoretical performance thresholds, even on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Benjamin F. Spector , Simran Arora , Aaryan Singhal , Daniel Y. Fu , Christopher Ré

The performance of modern AI systems is fundamentally constrained by the quality of their underlying kernels, which translate high-level algorithmic semantics into low-level hardware operations. Achieving near-optimal kernels requires…

GPU kernels have come to the forefront of computing due to their utility in varied fields, from high-performance computing to machine learning. A typical GPU compute kernel is invoked millions, if not billions of times in a typical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Khawir Mahmood , Jehandad Khan , Hammad Afzal

Improving GPU kernel efficiency is crucial for advancing AI systems. Recent work has explored leveraging large language models (LLMs) for GPU kernel generation and optimization. However, existing LLM-based kernel optimization pipelines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Qitong Sun , Jun Han , Tianlin Li , Zhe Tang , Sheng Chen , Fei Yang , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu , Yang Liu

Optimizing GPU kernels with LLM agents is an iterative process over a large design space. Every candidate must be generated, compiled, validated, and profiled, so fewer trials will save both runtime and cost. We make two key observations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Siva Kumar Sastry Hari , Vignesh Balaji , Sana Damani , Qijing Huang , Christos Kozyrakis

Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, such as Large Language Models, are primarily driven and executed by Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). These GPU programs (kernels) consume substantial amounts of energy, yet software developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Saurabhsingh Rajput , Alexander Brandt , Vadim Elisseev , Tushar Sharma

We present Kernel-Smith, a framework for high-performance GPU kernel and operator generation that combines a stable evaluation-driven evolutionary agent with an evolution-oriented post-training recipe. On the agent side, Kernel-Smith…

Porting deep learning algorithms to new hardware accelerators requires developers to repeatedly apply the same low-level optimizations -- quantization, memory access coalescing, tile size tuning, and architecture-specific workarounds -- to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Marcin Spoczynski , Daniel Fleischer , Moshe Berchansky , Gabriela Ben-Melech Stan , Shira Guskin , Weilin Xu , Adam Siemieniuk , Alexander Heinecke

GPU code optimization is a key performance bottleneck for HPC workloads as well as large-model training and inference. Although compiler optimizations and hand-written kernels can partially alleviate this issue, achieving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Qiuyi Qu , Yicheng Sui , Yufei Sun , Rui Chen , Xiaofei Zhang , Yuzhi Zhang , Haofeng Wang , Ge Lan

Developing high-performance GPU kernels is critical for AI and scientific computing, but remains challenging due to its reliance on expert crafting and poor portability. While LLMs offer promise for automation, both general-purpose and…

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Frontier AI safety policies highlight automation of AI research and development (R&D) by AI agents as an important capability to anticipate. However, there exist few evaluations for AI R&D capabilities, and none that are highly realistic…

For large-scale graph analytics on the GPU, the irregularity of data access and control flow, and the complexity of programming GPUs, have presented two significant challenges to developing a programmable high-performance graph library.…

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Industrial-scale recommender systems rely on a cascade pipeline in which the retrieval stage must return a high-recall candidate set from billions of items under tight latency. Existing solutions either (i) suffer from limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yijia Sun , Shanshan Huang , Zhiyuan Guan , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

In this report, we propose Triton-distributed, an extension of existing Triton compiler, to overcome the programming challenges in distributed AI systems. Triton-distributed is the first compiler that supports native overlapping…

In this work, we propose KPerfIR, a novel multilevel compiler-centric infrastructure to enable the development of customizable, extendable, and portable profiling tools tailored for modern artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on modern…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yue Guan , Yuanwei Fang , Keren Zhou , Corbin Robeck , Manman Ren , Zhongkai Yu , Yufei Ding , Adnan Aziz

High-quality kernel is critical for scalable AI systems, and enabling LLMs to generate such code would advance AI development. However, training LLMs for this task requires sufficient data, a robust environment, and the process is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Wei Liu , Jiawei Xu , Yingru Li , Longtao Zheng , Tianjian Li , Qian Liu , Junxian He

Designing high-performance kernels requires expert-level tuning and a deep understanding of hardware characteristics. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled automated kernel generation, yet most existing systems rely…

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Recent large language model (LLM) agents have shown promise in using execution feedback for test-time adaptation. However, robust self-improvement remains far from solved: most approaches still treat each problem instance independently,…