The paper introduces Speedrunning Relational Foundation Model Pretraining, a new leaderboard called modded‑nanoRT for Relational Transformers that decentralizes the search for efficient pretraining recipes. By calibrating the benchmark and ranking candidates based on a 45‑minute learning curve, the authors demonstrate a recipe that achieves the target in 305.63 seconds on a single NVIDIA H200—8.11× faster than the reference implementation—and wins 13 of 15 comparisons outside the development database. The authors plan to release the benchmark, frozen artifacts, and record runs, with code available on GitHub.
arXiv:2606. 03681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretraining cost is a major bottleneck for research on tabular foundation models, slowing the iteration cycle for new architectures, priors, and optimization ideas.
DataKernelBench evaluates whether large language models (LLMs) can optimize database queries for GPU execution. The benchmark translates SQL into PyTorch TorchPlan programs and tests LLMs on optimizing core tensor snippets or full queries in CUDA or Triton, using execution-guided repair. On TPC‑H SF10 with an H100 GPU, the best full‑query CUDA configuration outperforms torch.compile by 2.11×, and extending TorchPlan with Dask‑cuDF enables a 2.54× speedup on TPC‑H SF100 across four H100 GPUs.
arXiv:2608. 11519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full self-attention is a strong token mixer for PDE surrogates on irregular domains, but its quadratic cost limits its use on high-resolution problems.
arXiv:2609.05760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present RAGMark, a modular benchmarking framework for advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems targeting small-scale multi-GPU enviro...
arXiv:2606. 13392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultra-long-context capability is becoming indispensable for frontier LLMs: agentic workflows, repository-scale code reasoning, and persistent memory all require the model to jointly attend over hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens, yet the quadratic cost of softmax attention makes this untenable at deployment scale.
arXiv:2610.07940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Looped language models apply the same stack of layers T times to each token, which deepens the model without adding parameters but multiplies its key...
arXiv:2606. 11257v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines are compute-intensive, combining embedding, retrieval, reranking, and large language model (LLM) generation.
PageWeaver introduces a KV‑guided query union strategy for sparse attention, assembling query groups based on selected‑page affinity while preserving each query’s support and output ownership. The design employs a bounded GPU search to generate query IDs and an ID‑aware two‑CTA kernel that consumes them without materializing reordered Q tensors or cross‑page partial outputs. Experiments on the H200 Union8 with FP8 KV show a 1.70× speedup over FlashInfer, with additional latency reductions of 3.26–7.66% on selected captures and modest throughput gains for whole‑model prefill.
arXiv:2611. 07232v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: At context lengths of about 1M tokens, dense attention is costly in prefill and decoding, and training typically relies on long documents, which become scarcer as the target length increases.
The paper introduces QUILT, a new sparse‑attention execution mechanism that jointly processes neighboring queries to reuse shared key‑value (KV) entries, thereby reducing redundant memory traffic and computation. QUILT employs Shift‑and‑Compare Set Decomposition (SCSD) to convert irregular set operations into regular data‑parallel primitives and pipelines this with attention computation to hide overhead. The approach includes cascaded sharing across multiple granularities and a tile‑aware strategy that balances sharing with hardware utilization, achieving up to 55.1% lower kernel latency and 36.8% faster time‑to‑first‑token on LongBench benchmarks with negligible accuracy loss.
arXiv:2609.15810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion Transformers deliver state-of-the-art video generation, but their long spatiotemporal sequences make attention the dominant deployment cost,...
Block Sparse Flash Attention (BSFA) is a drop‑in replacement for FlashAttention that speeds up long‑context inference by pruning about 50% of computation and memory transfers. It selects the top‑k most important value blocks for each query using exact query‑key similarities and calibrated per‑layer, per‑head thresholds, requiring only a one‑time training‑free calibration. On Llama‑3.1‑8B, BSFA delivers up to 1.13× speedup on LongBench with a 1.1% accuracy drop and up to 1.24× on Needle‑in‑a‑Haystack retrieval with a 1% drop, while the attention kernel itself accelerates by up to 1.38×.