arXiv:2607. 24762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning models are increasingly embedded in everyday software, and most of their runtime is spent in a small set of compute kernels such as matrix multiplication, convolution, and normalization.
By Joshua Brodsky, Dhravid Kumar, Savini Kashmira, Jayanaka Danatanarayana, Jason Mars, Krisztian Flautner, Lingjia Tang
arXiv:2604. 01489v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-performance GPU kernels are critical to modern machine learning systems, yet developing them remains a manual, expert-driven process.
By Tara Saba, Zhiyang Chen, Jikai Jason Li, Anne Ouyang, Xujie Si, Fan Long
arXiv:2607. 14541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing GPU kernel generation benchmarks draw problems from synthetic or curated sources that diverge from deployed workloads.
By Lingyun Yang, Yuxiao Wang, Shenghao Liang, Linfeng Yang, Daocheng Ying, Chunbo You, Rui Zhang, Luping Wang, Yinghao Yu, Guodong Yang, Liping Zhang
arXiv:2606. 02963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production inference increasingly targets a heterogeneous mix of accelerators.
By Taras Sereda, Burak Bartan, Ankita Nayak, Tom St. John, Natalie Serrino, Zain Asgar
arXiv:2607. 16241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent large language models (LLMs) can generate custom CUDA kernels that appear to outperform PyTorch on benchmarks such as KernelBench.
By Yunxiang Zhang (Xiangjun), Ping Yu (Xiangjun), Jianyu Wang (Xiangjun), Max (Xiangjun), Fan, Julian Reed, Azalia Mirhoseini, Will Su
arXiv:2607. 27231v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have significantly increased the demand for efficient accelerator kernels, but kernel development remains a highly specialized and labor-intensive task.
By Peiyu Zang, Jian Tao, Jialing Zhang, Yichen Yuan, Wentao Zhang, Guang Liu, Yonghua Lin
arXiv:2601. 15727v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The performance of modern AI systems is fundamentally constrained by the quality of their underlying GPU kernels, which translate high-level algorithmic semantics into low-level hardware operations.
By Yang Yu, Peiyu Zang, Chi Hsu Tsai, Haiming Wu, Yixin Shen, Jialing Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Zhiyou Xiao, Jingze Shi, Yuyu Luo, Wentao Zhang, Chunlei Men, Guang Liu, Yonghua Lin
arXiv:2607. 17979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can assist GPU kernel generation, but their practical effectiveness depends on whether generated code can be reliably constrained, validated, profiled, and selected.
By Yue Shui, Chenyu Ma, Hangfei Xu, Shengzhao Wen, Yanpeng Wang
arXiv:2511. 15503v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: High-performance Host processors can integrate Processing-In-Memory (PIM) devices, which can accelerate memory-intensive kernels of Machine Learning (ML) models, including Large Language Models (LLMs), by leveraging the large memory bandwidth available at PIM cores.
By Peiming Yang, Sankeerth Durvasula, Ivan Fernandez, Mohammad Sadrosadati, Onur Mutlu, Gennady Pekhimenko, Christina Giannoula
arXiv:2608. 12629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GPU kernel agents and GPU programming languages have advanced separately, leaving expert kernels difficult to reproduce.
By Zihao Ye, Yingyi Huang, Hongyi Jin, Bohan Hou, Junru Shao, Zhongming Yu, Jinqi Chen, Meghan Cowan, Shiyi Cao, Shanli Xing, Hanfeng Chen, Vinod Grover, Tianqi Chen, Luis Ceze
arXiv:2606. 28565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) move into production serving, practitioners must rapidly evaluate inference performance across diverse hardware, models, and serving parameters to meet cost and latency targets.
By Xiteng Yao, Taeho Kim, Hengzhi Pei, Xinle Liu, Kyle Ulrich, Leonard Lausen, Ashish Khetan, Xiang Song, George Karypis, Martin Herbordt
arXiv:2606. 16231v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-performance CUDA kernels are essential for scalable AI systems, while Large Language Models (LLMs) still struggle to generate correct kernels due to strict and implicit execution constraints.
By Wentao Chen, Jiace Zhu, Xing Zhe Chai, Zeng Qu, Qiaoling Xiao, Liucheng Duan, An Zou