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Optimizing GPU kernels for high performance is a complex task, often demanding deep architectural knowledge, extensive profiling, and iterative experimentation. This challenge is amplified when targeting newer or less-documented GPU…

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As high-performance computing and AI workloads become increasingly dependent on GPUs, maintaining high performance across rapidly evolving hardware generations has become a major challenge. Developers often spend months tuning scientific…

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Optimizing GPU kernels presents a significantly greater challenge for large language models (LLMs) than standard code generation tasks, as it requires understanding hardware architecture, parallel optimization strategies, and performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Nina Wiedemann , Quentin Leboutet , Michael Paulitsch , Diana Wofk , Benjamin Ummenhofer

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

High-performance GPU kernel optimization remains a critical yet labor-intensive task in modern machine learning workloads. Although Triton, a domain-specific language for GPU programming, enables developers to write efficient kernels with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haonan Li , Keyu Man , Partha Kanuparthy , Hanning Chen , Wei Sun , Sreen Tallam , Chenguang Zhu , Kevin Zhu , Zhiyun Qian

Kernel development in deep learning requires optimizing computational units across hardware while balancing memory management, parallelism, and hardware-specific optimizations through extensive empirical tuning. Although domain-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Shangzhan Li , Zefan Wang , Ye He , Yuxuan Li , Qi Shi , Jianling Li , Yonggang Hu , Wanxiang Che , Xu Han , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

The efficiency of GPU kernels is central to the progress of modern AI, yet optimizing them remains a difficult and labor-intensive task due to complex interactions between memory hierarchies, thread scheduling, and hardware-specific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Juncheng Dong , Yang Yang , Tao Liu , Yang Wang , Feng Qi , Vahid Tarokh , Kaushik Rangadurai , Shuang Yang

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

High-performance GPU kernels are critical for efficient LLM serving, yet their optimization remains a bottleneck requiring deep system expertise. While code LLMs show promise in generating functionally correct code, kernel optimization is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Dezhi Ran , Shuxiao Xie , Mingfang Ji , Anmin Liu , Mengzhou Wu , Yuan Cao , Yuzhe Guo , Hao Yu , Linyi Li , Yitao Hu , Wei Yang , Tao Xie

Optimizing CUDA kernels is a challenging and labor-intensive task, given the need for hardware-software co-design expertise and the proprietary nature of high-performance kernel libraries. While recent large language models (LLMs) combined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Jinwu Chen , Qidie Wu , Bin Li , Lin Ma , Xin Si , Yang Hu , Shouyi Yin , Jun Yang

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,…

Optimizing GPU kernels is critical for efficient modern machine learning systems yet remains challenging due to the complex interplay of design factors and rapid hardware evolution. Existing automated approaches typically treat Large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Shiyi Cao , Ziming Mao , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica

We present Metal-Sci, a 10-task benchmark of scientific Apple Silicon Metal compute kernels spanning six optimization regimes (stencils, all-pairs in $n$-body problems, multi-field Boltzmann, neighbor-list molecular dynamics, multi-kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Víctor Gallego

High-performance GPU kernels are critical to modern machine learning systems, yet developing efficient implementations remains a challenging, expert-driven process due to the tight coupling between algorithmic structure, memory hierarchy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Tara Saba , Anne Ouyang , Xujie Si , Fan Long

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

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

Developing efficient GPU kernels is essential for scaling modern AI systems, yet it remains a complex task due to intricate hardware architectures and the need for specialized optimization expertise. Although Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Ali Tehrani , Yahya Emara , Essam Wissam , Wojciech Paluch , Waleed Atallah , Łukasz Dudziak , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

The demand for AI-generated GPU kernels is rapidly growing, influenced by the need for scalable, hardware-optimized solutions in both industry and academia. As deep learning workloads grow in complexity and diversity, it is imperative to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Jianghui Wang , Vinay Joshi , Saptarshi Majumder , Xu Chao , Bin Ding , Ziqiong Liu , Pratik Prabhanjan Brahma , Dong Li , Zicheng Liu , Emad Barsoum

Automated kernel design is critical for overcoming software ecosystem barriers in emerging hardware platforms like RISC-V. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for automated kernel optimization, demonstrating success in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Siyuan Chen , Zhichao Lu , Qingfu Zhang

Generating high-performance CUDA kernels remains challenging due to the need to navigate a combinatorial space of low-level transformations under noisy and expensive hardware feedback. Although large language models can synthesize…

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