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The automatic generation of deep learning (DL) kernels using large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising approach to reduce the manual effort and hardware-specific expertise required for writing high-performance operator…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhongzhen Wen , Yinghui Zhang , Zhong Li , Zhongxin Liu , Linna Xie , Tian Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for automated code optimization but struggle without performance context. This work introduces Opal, a modular framework that connects performance analytics insights with the vast body of published…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Mohammad Zaeed , Tanzima Z. Islam , Vladimir Inđić

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automatically generate optimized CUDA kernels, substantially improving developer productivity. However, despite rapid generation, these kernels often contain subtle correctness bugs and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Bodhisatwa Chatterjee , Drew Zagieboylo , Sana Damani , Siva Hari , Christos Kozyrakis

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with parameter-efficient techniques such as LoRA and QLoRA has enabled adaptation of foundation models on modest hardware. Yet the efficiency of such training on consumer-grade GPUs, especially under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 MSR Avinash

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in code generation tasks, yet they face significant limitations in handling complex, long-context programming challenges and demonstrating complex compositional reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Amr Almorsi , Mohanned Ahmed , Walid Gomaa

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) necessitates a deep understanding of their fundamental performance limits. This paper investigates the limits of LLM inference, focusing on hardware-imposed bottlenecks in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Michael Davies , Neal Crago , Karthikeyan Sankaralingam , Christos Kozyrakis

FPGAs are increasingly adopted in datacenter environments for their reconfigurability and energy efficiency. High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools have eased FPGA programming by raising the abstraction level from RTL to untimed C/C++, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Neha Prakriya , Zijian Ding , Yizhou Sun , Jason Cong

Peak breaking Matrix Multiplication is a promising technique to improve the performance of DL, especially in LLM training and inference. We present FalconGEMM, a cross-platform framework that automates the deployment, optimization, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Honglin Zhu , Jiaping Cao , Jiang Shao , Siyuan Feng , Qian Qiu , Peng Chen , Xu Zhang , Yixian Zhou , Man Lung Yiu , Guang Ji , Minwen Deng , Wenxi Zhu , Jintao Meng

Automatic code generation is frequently used to create implementations of algorithms specifically tuned to particular hardware and application parameters. The code generation process involves the selection of adequate code transformations,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Dominik Ernst , Markus Holzer , Georg Hager , Matthias Knorr , Gerhard Wellein

Profiling is important for performance optimization by providing real-time observations and measurements of important parameters of hardware execution. Existing profiling tools for High-Level Synthesis (HLS) IPs running on FPGAs are far…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Rui Shi , Seda Ogrenci

High-level synthesis, source-to-source compilers, and various Design Space Exploration techniques for pragma insertion have significantly improved the Quality of Results of generated designs. These tools offer benefits such as reduced…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Stéphane Pouget , Louis-Noël Pouchet , Jason Cong

Optimizing GPU kernels manually is a challenging and time-consuming task. With the rapid development of LLMs, automated GPU kernel optimization is gradually becoming a tangible reality. However, current LLM-driven automated optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuxuan Han , Meng-Hao Guo , Zhengning Liu , Wenguang Chen , Shi-Min Hu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized automated program repair (APR) but current benchmarks like SWE-Bench predominantly focus on userspace applications and overlook the complexities of kernel-space debugging and repair. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kareem Shehada , Yifan Wu , Wyatt D. Feng , Adithya Iyer , Gryphon Kumfert , Yangruibo Ding , Zhiyun Qian

Python's flexibility and ease of use come at the cost of performance inefficiencies, requiring developers to rely on profilers to optimize execution. SCALENE, a high-performance CPU, GPU, and memory profiler, provides fine-grained insights…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Saem Hasan , Sanju Basak

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,…

Processing large-scale graph datasets is computationally intensive and time-consuming. Processor-centric CPU and GPU architectures, commonly used for graph applications, often face bottlenecks caused by extensive data movement between the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Marzieh Barkhordar , Alireza Tabatabaeian , Mohammad Sadrosadati , Christina Giannoula , Juan Gomez Luna , Izzat El Hajj , Onur Mutlu , Alaa R. Alameldeen

CUDA kernel optimization has become a critical bottleneck for AI performance, as deep learning training and inference efficiency directly depends on highly optimized GPU kernels. Despite the promise of Large Language Models (LLMs) for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ping Guo , Chenyu Zhu , Siyuan Chen , Fei Liu , Xi Lin , Zhichao Lu , Qingfu Zhang

Despite impressive advancements in recent multimodal reasoning approaches, they are still limited in flexibility and efficiency, as these models typically process only a few fixed modality inputs and require updates to numerous parameters.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shoubin Yu , Jaehong Yoon , Mohit Bansal

This paper introduces EdgeProfiler, a fast profiling framework designed for evaluating lightweight Large Language Models (LLMs) on edge systems. While LLMs offer remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding and generation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Alyssa Pinnock , Shakya Jayakody , Kawsher A Roxy , Md Rubel Ahmed

Tackling complex optimization problems often relies on expert-designed heuristics, typically crafted through extensive trial and error. Recent advances demonstrate that large language models (LLMs), when integrated into well-designed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ziyao Huang , Weiwei Wu , Kui Wu , Jianping Wang , Wei-Bin Lee