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Modern GPU software stacks demand developers who can anticipate performance bottlenecks before ever launching a kernel; misjudging floating-point workloads upstream can derail tuning, scheduling, and even hardware procurement. Yet despite…

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Large language models (LLMs) have transformed artificial intelligence, but their computational requirements remain prohibitive for most users. Standard inference demands expensive datacenter GPUs or cloud API access, leaving over one…

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Emerging AI accelerators increasingly adopt wafer-scale manufacturing technologies, integrating hundreds of thousands of AI cores in a mesh architecture with large distributed on-chip memory (tens of GB in total) and ultra-high on-chip…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Congjie He , Yeqi Huang , Pei Mu , Ziming Miao , Jilong Xue , Lingxiao Ma , Fan Yang , Luo Mai

Quantization is a critical technique for accelerating LLM inference by reducing memory footprint and improving computational efficiency. Among various schemes, 4-bit weight and 8-bit activation quantization (W4A8) offers a strong balance…

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Quantum computing algorithms have been shown to produce performant quantum kernels for machine-learning classification problems. Here, we examine the performance of quantum kernels for regression problems of practical interest. For an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Xuyang Guo , Jun Dai , Roman V. Krems

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for generating Register-Transfer Level (RTL) code from natural language specifications, but single-shot generation achieves only 60-65% functional correctness on standard benchmarks. Multi-agent…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Cagri Eryilmaz

We present a new efficient OpenCL-based Accelerator for large scale Convolutional Neural Networks called Fast Inference on FPGAs for Convolution Neural Network (FFCNN). FFCNN is based on a deeply pipelined OpenCL kernels architecture. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 F. Keddous , H-N. Nguyen , A. Nakib

Running LLMs locally has become increasingly common, but users face a complex design space across models, quantization levels, inference engines, and serving scenarios. Existing inference benchmarks are fragmented and focus on isolated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Linus Stuhlmann , Mauricio Fadel Argerich , Jonathan Fürst

The rapid adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has made GPU inference efficiency an increasingly critical system concern. The runtime of LLM workloads is largely dominated by tile-based kernels, particularly General Matrix…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kaixuan Zhang , Chutong Ding , Shiyou Qian , Luping Wang , Jian Cao , Guangtao Xue , Cheng Huang , Guodong Yang , Liping Zhang

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have been blossoming in recent years, but the unique data processing and evaluation setups used by each work obstruct a full understanding of their advancements. In this work, we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Qingsong Lv , Ming Ding , Qiang Liu , Yuxiang Chen , Wenzheng Feng , Siming He , Chang Zhou , Jianguo Jiang , Yuxiao Dong , Jie Tang

Transformers, driven by attention mechanisms, form the foundation of large language models (LLMs). As these models scale up, efficient GPU attention kernels become essential for high-throughput and low-latency inference. Diverse LLM…

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In recent times, the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has resulted in increasingly larger model size, posing challenges for inference on low-resource devices. Prior approaches have explored offloading to facilitate low-memory…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xuanlei Zhao , Bin Jia , Haotian Zhou , Ziming Liu , Shenggan Cheng , Yang You

The scaling of computation throughput continues to outpace improvements in memory bandwidth, making many deep learning workloads memory-bound. Kernel fusion is a key technique to alleviate this problem, but the fusion strategies of existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ziyu Huang , Yangjie Zhou , Zihan Liu , Xinhao Luo , Yijia Diao , Minyi Guo , Jidong Zhai , Yu Feng , Chen Zhang , Anbang Wu , Jingwen Leng

As LLM agents are increasingly built around reusable skills, a central challenge is no longer only whether agents can use provided skills, but whether they can generate correct, reusable, and executable skills from repositories and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yifan Zhou , Zhentao Zhang , Ziming Cheng , Shuo Zhang , Qizhen Lan , Zhangquan Chen , Zhi Yang , QianyuXu , Ronghao Chen , Huacan Wang , Sen Hu

Heterogeneous computing can potentially offer significant performance and performance per watt improvements over homogeneous computing, but the question "what is the ideal mapping of algorithms to architectures?" remains an open one. In the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Oren Segal , Nasibeh Nasiri , Martin Margala

Optimizing GPU kernels with LLM agents is an iterative process over a large design space. Every candidate must be generated, compiled, validated, and profiled, so fewer trials will save both runtime and cost. We make two key observations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Siva Kumar Sastry Hari , Vignesh Balaji , Sana Damani , Qijing Huang , Christos Kozyrakis

As inference on Large Language Models (LLMs) emerges as an important workload in machine learning applications, weight quantization has become a standard technique for efficient GPU deployment. Quantization not only reduces model size, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Elias Frantar , Roberto L. Castro , Jiale Chen , Torsten Hoefler , Dan Alistarh

The quantum kernel method has attracted considerable attention in the field of quantum machine learning. However, exploring the applicability of quantum kernels in more realistic settings has been hindered by the number of physical qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Teppei Suzuki , Tsubasa Miyazaki , Toshiki Inaritai , Takahiro Otsuka

Optimizing scientific applications to take full advan-tage of modern memory subsystems is a continual challenge forapplication and compiler developers. Factors beyond working setsize affect performance. A benchmark framework that…

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The widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) has made GPU-accelerated inference a critical part of modern computing infrastructure. Production inference systems rely on CUDA kernels to implement core transformer operations, yet…

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