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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

Perturbation-based explainability methods such as KernelSHAP provide model-agnostic attributions but are typically impractical for patch-based 3D medical image segmentation due to the large number of coalition evaluations and the high cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ricardo Coimbra Brioso , Giulio Sichili , Damiano Dei , Nicola Lambri , Pietro Mancosu , Marta Scorsetti , Daniele Loiacono

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

Vision Transformers require significant computational resources and memory bandwidth, severely limiting their deployment on edge devices. While recent structured pruning methods successfully reduce theoretical FLOPs, they typically operate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Andy Li , Aiden Durrant , Milan Markovic , Georgios Leontidis

Recent years have witnessed the rapid progress of image captioning. However, the demands for large memory storage and heavy computational burden prevent these captioning models from being deployed on mobile devices. The main obstacles lie…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Ning Wang , Jiangrong Xie , Hang Luo , Qinglin Cheng , Jihao Wu , Mingbo Jia , Linlin Li

Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) have become ubiquitous in scientific computing. However, writing efficient GPU kernels can be challenging due to the need for careful code tuning. To automatically explore the kernel optimization space,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Stijn Heldens , Ben van Werkhoven

Production deployment of AI coding agents requires fast, reproducible evaluation signals. Existing industrial practices trade off speed and fidelity: online A/B testing takes weeks and risks user experience, shadow deployment yields signals…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Smriti Jha , Matteo Paltenghi , Chandra Maddila , Vijayaraghavan Murali , Shubham Ugare , Satish Chandra

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

Multi-GPU programming traditionally requires developers to navigate complex trade-offs between performance and programmability. High-performance implementations typically rely on low-level HIP/CUDA communication libraries that demand…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Muhammad Awad , Muhammad Osama , Brandon Potter

The computational problem of inferring the full haplotype of a cell starting from read sequencing data is known as haplotype assembly, and consists in assigning all heterozygous Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) to exactly one of the…

We introduce an algorithmic framework for performing QR factorization with column pivoting (QRCP) on general matrices. The framework enables the design of practical QRCP algorithms through user-controlled choices for the core subroutines.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Maksim Melnichenko , Riley Murray , William Killian , James Demmel , Michael W. Mahoney , Piotr Luszczek , Mark Gates

The proliferation of high-throughput sequencing machines ensures rapid generation of up to billions of short nucleotide fragments in a short period of time. This massive amount of sequence data can quickly overwhelm today's storage and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Subho S. Banerjee , Mohamed El-Hadedy , Jong Bin Lim , Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk , Deming Chen , Steve Lumetta , Ravishankar K. Iyer

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

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

Recent research shows that for training with $\ell_2$ loss, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) whose width (number of channels in convolutional layers) goes to infinity correspond to regression with respect to the CNN Gaussian Process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Zhiyuan Li , Ruosong Wang , Dingli Yu , Simon S. Du , Wei Hu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Sanjeev Arora

In high-performance computing, hotspot GPU kernels are primary bottlenecks, and expert manual tuning is costly and hard to port. Large language model methods often assume kernels can be compiled and executed cheaply, which fails in large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ruifan Chu , Anbang Wang , Xiuxiu Bai , Shuai Liu , Xiaoshe Dong

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

We present a novel deep learning architecture in which the convolution operation leverages heterogeneous kernels. The proposed HetConv (Heterogeneous Kernel-Based Convolution) reduces the computation (FLOPs) and the number of parameters as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Pravendra Singh , Vinay Kumar Verma , Piyush Rai , Vinay P. Namboodiri

The optimization of the transpose convolution layer for deep learning applications is achieved with the kernel segregation mechanism. However, kernel segregation has disadvantages, such as computing extra elements to obtain the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Vijay Srinivas Tida , Md Imran Hossen , Liqun Shan , Sai Venkatesh Chilukoti , Sonya Hsu , Xiali Hei

Introduction: Decompilers are useful tools for software analysis and support in the absence of source code. They are available for many hardware architectures and programming languages. However, none of the existing decompilers support…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-19 K. I. Mihajlenko , M. A. Lukin , A. S. Stankevich