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Deep neural networks are increasingly bottlenecked by the cost of optimization, both in terms of GPU memory and compute time. Existing acceleration techniques, such as mixed precision, second-order methods, and batch size scaling, are…

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Writing high-performance GPU kernels is among the most labor-intensive tasks in machine learning systems engineering. We present AutoKernel, an open-source framework that applies an autonomous agent loop to GPU kernel optimization for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jaber Jaber , Osama Jaber

LLM-based Triton kernel generation has attracted significant interest, yet a fundamental empirical question remains unanswered: where does this capability break down, and why? We present KernelBenchX, a benchmark designed to answer this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Han Wang , Jintao Zhang , Kai Jiang , Haoxu Wang , Jianfei Chen , Jun Zhu

Large Language Models (LLMs) demand substantial computational resources, resulting in high energy consumption on GPUs. To address this challenge, we focus on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) as an effective alternative that…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Takuto Ando , Yu Eto , Ayumu Takeuchi , Yasuhiko Nakashima

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven a growing demand for automated, high-performance system kernels to accelerate machine learning workloads. We introduce TritonRL, a domain-specialized 8B-scale LLM for Triton…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiin Woo , Shaowei Zhu , Allen Nie , Zhen Jia , Yida Wang , Youngsuk Park

The scaling of large language models (LLMs) is currently bottlenecked by the rigidity of distributed programming. While high-performance libraries like CuBLAS and NCCL provide optimized primitives, they lack the flexibility required for…

Triton, a high-level Python-like language designed for building efficient GPU kernels, is widely adopted in deep learning frameworks due to its portability, flexibility, and accessibility. However, programming and parallel optimization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Jianling Li , Shangzhan Li , Zhenye Gao , Qi Shi , Yuxuan Li , Zefan Wang , Jiacheng Huang , Haojie Wang , Jianrong Wang , Xu Han , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Support for lower precision computation is becoming more common in accelerator hardware due to lower power usage, reduced data movement and increased computational performance. However, computational science and engineering (CSE) problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Jennifer A. Loe , Christian A. Glusa , Ichitaro Yamazaki , Erik G. Boman , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam

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

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

Developing high-performance GPU kernels is critical for AI and scientific computing, but remains challenging due to its reliance on expert crafting and poor portability. While LLMs offer promise for automation, both general-purpose and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xinguo Zhu , Shaohui Peng , Jiaming Guo , Yunji Chen , Qi Guo , Yuanbo Wen , Hang Qin , Ruizhi Chen , Qirui Zhou , Ke Gao , Yanjun Wu , Chen Zhao , Ling Li

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) automates network design, but conventional methods demand substantial computational resources. We propose a closed-loop pipeline leveraging large language models (LLMs) to iteratively generate, evaluate, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Xiaojie Gu , Dmitry Ignatov , Radu Timofte

Recent advances in transformer-based foundation models have made them the default choice for many tasks, but their rapidly growing size makes fitting a full model on a single GPU increasingly difficult and their computational cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pierre Abillama , Changwoo Lee , Juechu Dong , David Blaauw , Dennis Sylvester , Hun-Seok Kim

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

Modern large language models (LLMs) increasingly depends on efficient long-context processing and generation mechanisms, including sparse attention, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and compressed contextual memory, to support complex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zifan He , Rui Ma , Yizhou Sun , Jason Cong

The manufacturing sector is increasingly adopting Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to transition from simple perception to autonomous execution, yet current evaluations fail to reflect the rigorous demands of real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiangru Jian , Hao Xu , Wei Pang , Xinjian Zhao , Chengyu Tao , Qixin Zhang , Xikun Zhang , Chao Zhang , Guanzhi Deng , Alex Xue , Juan Du , Tianshu Yu , Garth Tarr , Linqi Song , Qiuzhuang Sun , Dacheng Tao

The energy and latency costs of deep neural network inference are increasingly driven by deployment rather than training, motivating hardware-specialized alternatives to arithmetic-heavy models. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Simon Bührer , Andreas Plesner , Aczel Till , Roger Wattenhofer

GPU kernel optimization is increasingly critical for efficient deep learning systems, but writing high-performance kernels still requires substantial low-level expertise. Recent AI coding agents can iteratively read code, invoke compilers…

The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) is accelerating the integration of multimodal assistants into edge devices, where inference is executed under stringent latency and energy constraints, often exacerbated by intermittent…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yanru Chen , Runyang Tian , Yue Pan , Zheyu Li , Weihong Xu , Tajana Rosing

Many hardware vendors have introduced specialized deep neural networks (DNN) accelerators owing to their superior performance and efficiency. As such, how to generate and optimize the code for the hardware accelerator becomes an important…

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