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As LLMs grow in complexity, achieving state-of-the-art performance requires tight co-design across algorithms, software, and hardware. Today's reliance on a single dominant platform limits portability, creates vendor lock-in, and raises…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Burkhard Ringlein , Thomas Parnell , Radu Stoica

Conventional kernel-based machine learning models for ab initio potential energy surfaces, while accurate and convenient in small data regimes, suffer immense computational cost as training set sizes increase. We introduce QML-Lightning, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Nicholas J. Browning , Felix A. Faber , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

We present tritonBLAS, a fast and deterministic analytical model that uses architectural parameters like the cache hierarchy, and relative code and data placement to generate performant GPU GEMM kernels. tritonBLAS explicitly models the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Ryan Swann , Muhammad Osama , Xiaohu Guo , Bryant Nelson , Lixun Zhang , Alex Brown , Yen Ong , Ali Yazdani , Sean Siddens , Ganesh Dasika , Alex Underwood

The rapid advancements in autonomous driving have introduced increasingly complex, real-time GPU-bound tasks critical for reliable vehicle operation. However, the proprietary nature of these autonomous systems and closed-source GPU drivers…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Hanqi Zhu , Wuyang Zhang , Xinran Zhang , Ziyang Tao , Xinrui Lin , Yu Zhang , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Kelun Lei , Hailong Yang , Huaitao Zhang , Xin You , Kaige Zhang , Zhongzhi Luan , Yi Liu , Depei Qian

Automatic code optimization is a complex process that typically involves the application of multiple discrete algorithms that modify the program structure irreversibly. However, the design of these algorithms is often monolithic, and they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Kazuaki Matsumura , Simon Garcia De Gonzalo , Antonio J. Peña

We propose an online auto-tuning approach for computing kernels. Differently from existing online auto-tuners, which regenerate code with long compilation chains from the source to the binary code, our approach consists on deploying…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Fernando Endo , Damien Couroussé , Henri-Pierre Charles

A long-standing goal in both industry and academia is to develop an LLM inference platform that is portable across hardware architectures, eliminates the need for low-level hand-tuning, and still delivers best-in-class efficiency. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Burkhard Ringlein , Jan van Lunteren , Radu Stoica , Thomas Parnell

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

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

AMD GPUs offer state-of-the-art compute and memory bandwidth; however, peak performance AMD kernels are written in raw assembly. To address the difficulty of mapping AI algorithms to hardware, recent work proposes C++ embedded and…

Training Large Language Models (LLMs) efficiently at scale presents a formidable challenge, driven by their ever-increasing computational demands and the need for enhanced performance. In this work, we introduce Liger-Kernel, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Pin-Lun Hsu , Yun Dai , Vignesh Kothapalli , Qingquan Song , Shao Tang , Siyu Zhu , Steven Shimizu , Shivam Sahni , Haowen Ning , Yanning Chen

Many studies have focused on developing and improving auto-tuning algorithms for Nvidia Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), but the effectiveness and efficiency of these approaches on AMD devices have hardly been studied. This paper aims to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Milo Lurati , Stijn Heldens , Alessio Sclocco , Ben van Werkhoven

Developing efficient CUDA kernels is a fundamental yet challenging task in the generative AI industry. Recent research leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically convert PyTorch reference implementations to CUDA kernels,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Siqi Guo , Ming Lin , Tianbao Yang

A commonly occurring computation idiom in neural networks is to perform some pointwise operations on the result of a matrix multiplication. Such a sequence of operations is typically represented as a computation graph in deep learning…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Somashekaracharya G. Bhaskaracharya , Julien Demouth , Vinod Grover

We present AlphaLab, an autonomous research harness that leverages frontier LLM agentic capabilities to automate the full experimental cycle in quantitative, computation-intensive domains. Given only a dataset and a natural-language…

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) demonstrate their effectiveness in scaling test-time compute for software engineering tasks. However, these approaches often focus on high-level solutions, with limited attention to optimizing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Robert Tjarko Lange , Qi Sun , Aaditya Prasad , Maxence Faldor , Yujin Tang , David Ha

Making deep learning recommendation model (DLRM) training and inference fast and efficient is important. However, this presents three key system challenges - model architecture diversity, kernel primitive diversity, and hardware generation…

Algorithmic reasoning -- the ability to perform step-by-step logical inference -- has become a core benchmark for evaluating reasoning in graph neural networks (GNNs) and large language models (LLMs). Ideally, one would like to design a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Dongyue Li , Zhenshuo Zhang , Minxuan Duan , Edgar Dobriban , Hongyang R. Zhang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have revolutionized various fields, but their deployment on GPUs often leads to significant energy consumption. Unlike existing methods for reducing GPU energy consumption, which are either hardware-inflexible or…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yijia Zhang , Zhihong Gou , Shijie Cao , Weigang Feng , Sicheng Zhang , Guohao Dai , Ningyi Xu