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Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently generate hallucinations: statements that are syntactically plausible but lack factual grounding. This research presents KEA (Kernel-Enriched AI) Explain: a neurosymbolic framework that detects and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Reilly Haskins , Benjamin Adams

It has become standard to solve NLP tasks by fine-tuning pre-trained language models (LMs), especially in low-data settings. There is minimal theoretical understanding of empirical success, e.g., why fine-tuning a model with $10^8$ or more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Sadhika Malladi , Alexander Wettig , Dingli Yu , Danqi Chen , Sanjeev Arora

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…

Kernel selection plays a central role in determining the performance of Gaussian Process (GP) models, as the chosen kernel determines both the inductive biases and prior support of functions under the GP prior. This work addresses the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-22 Fergus Simpson , Ian Davies , Vidhi Lalchand , Alessandro Vullo , Nicolas Durrande , Carl Rasmussen

In recent years, the rapid advancement of deep neural networks (DNNs) has revolutionized artificial intelligence, enabling models with unprecedented capabilities in understanding, generating, and processing complex data. These powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zixian Wang , Cole Ramos , Muhammad A. Awad , Keith Lowery

Behavioral model diagrams, e.g., sequence diagrams, are an essential form of documentation that are typically designed by system engineers from requirements documentation, either fully manually or assisted by design tools. With the growing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Khaled Ahmed , Jialing Song , Boqi Chen , Ou Wei , Bingzhou Zheng

Efficient GPU kernels are crucial for building performant machine learning architectures, but writing them is a time-consuming challenge that requires significant expertise; therefore, we explore using language models (LMs) to automate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Anne Ouyang , Simon Guo , Simran Arora , Alex L. Zhang , William Hu , Christopher Ré , Azalia Mirhoseini

Neural processing units (NPUs) are gaining prominence in power-sensitive devices like client devices, with AI PCs being defined by their inclusion of these specialized processors. Running AI workloads efficiently on these devices requires…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Sarunas Kalade , Graham Schelle

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

Maximizing performance on available GPU hardware is an ongoing challenge for modern AI inference systems. Traditional approaches include writing custom GPU kernels and using specialized model compilers to tune high-level code for specific…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kirill Nagaitsev , Luka Grbcic , Samuel Williams , Costin Iancu

Mixture of Experts (MoE) LLMs, characterized by their sparse activation patterns, offer a promising approach to scaling language models while avoiding proportionally increasing the inference cost. However, their large parameter sizes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yichao Yuan , Lin Ma , Nishil Talati

We present AccelOpt, a self-improving large language model (LLM) agentic system that autonomously optimizes kernels for emerging AI acclerators, eliminating the need for expert-provided hardware-specific optimization knowledge. AccelOpt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Genghan Zhang , Shaowei Zhu , Anjiang Wei , Zhenyu Song , Allen Nie , Zhen Jia , Nandita Vijaykumar , Yida Wang , Kunle Olukotun

Transformers have revolutionized the machine learning landscape, gradually making their way into everyday tasks and equipping our computers with "sparks of intelligence". However, their runtime requirements have prevented them from being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Stefanos Laskaridis , Kleomenis Katevas , Lorenzo Minto , Hamed Haddadi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating code generation and software engineering tasks, yet they often struggle with complex, multi-file projects due to context limitations and knowledge gaps. We propose a novel…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Muhammad Haseeb

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Haohui Mai , Xiaoyan Guo , Xiangyun Ding , Daifeng Li , Qiuchu Yu , Chenzhun Guo , Cong Wang , Jiacheng Zhao , Christos Kozyrakis , Binhang Yuan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for software development tasks such as code completion, translation, and optimization. However, their ability to generate efficient and correct code, particularly in complex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Bowen Cui , Tejas Ramesh , Oscar Hernandez , Keren Zhou

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

Graphics processors, or GPUs, have recently been widely used as accelerators in the shared environments such as clusters and clouds. In such shared environments, many kernels are submitted to GPUs from different users, and throughput is an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-22 Jianlong Zhong , Bingsheng He

The use of natural language interfaces (NLIs) to create charts is becoming increasingly popular due to the intuitiveness of natural language interactions. One key challenge in this approach is to accurately capture user intents and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yuan Tian , Weiwei Cui , Dazhen Deng , Xinjing Yi , Yurun Yang , Haidong Zhang , Yingcai Wu

LLM-based agents for GPU kernel generation are advancing rapidly, yet their progress is fundamentally constrained by the benchmarks they optimize against. Existing benchmarks are poorly aligned with production inference frameworks: they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Gabriele Oliaro , Yichao Fu , May Jiang , Owen Lu , Junli Wang , Zhihao Jia , Hao Zhang , Samyam Rajbhandari