In RLHF pipelines, reward scoring blocks policy updates. Slow scoring bottlenecks the entire loop, since no update runs until every rollout gets a score.
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:2605. 09708v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Metal-Sci, a 10-task benchmark of scientific Apple Silicon Metal compute kernels spanning six optimization regimes (stencils, all-pairs in $n$-body problems, multi-field Boltzmann, neighbor-list molecular dynamics, multi-kernel PDE, FFT).
By V\'ictor Gallego
arXiv:2607. 27271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Code models are increasingly trained with execution feedback, but most training signals still stop at correctness.
By Huihao Jing, Haozhe Cui, Wenbin Hu, Shaojin Chen, Haochen Shi, Changxuan Fan, Yuxuan Liu, Hanyu Yang, Sirui Zhang, Ziyi Chen, Haoran Li, Yangqiu Song
arXiv:2608. 15089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents can fail even when their underlying models can solve the constituent steps.
By Ziheng Qin, Yaxin Lu, Zhangyang Atlas Wang, Kai Wang
arXiv:2606. 29119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce a pre-registered screening rule that decides, before any implementation, whether an evolutionary / population / lifecycle outer loop over neural-network parameters or structure is worth building.
By Ramchand Kumaresan
arXiv:2607. 11985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hybrid quantum-classical machine learning workflows repeatedly evaluate many small parametrized circuits during training and model exploration.
By Anton Firc, Martin Pere\v{s}\'ini, Vojt\v{e}ch Mr\'azek, Kamil Malinka, Vojt\v{e}ch Stan\v{e}k, Zbyn\v{e}k Li\v{c}ka, Nouhaila Innan, Walid El Maouaki, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Shafique
arXiv:2607. 11368v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reported serving speedups from quantized kernels typically bundle the weight format, the kernel, and the inference runtime into one number.
By Weijia Han, Lisha Qu
arXiv:2504. 15610v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-tuning a 7B language model for specialized advising is attractive in resource-constrained settings, but multi-epoch runs routinely exceed the wall-clock limits of the free-tier GPUs (Kaggle, Colab) such users rely on.
By Md Millat Hosen
arXiv:2606. 24780v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Progress in deep learning is, at scale, more a matter of systems engineering than of modelling: the behaviour of a model in training (its throughput, its memory footprint, and the numerical fidelity of the result) is determined less by the architecture itself than by how that architecture is expressed on the hardware.
By Adhitya Charan, Adwaid Suresh, Anuj Kumar, Aparna A, Dhanakumar K, Dharun M S, Dinesh G, Goutham Kumar Reddy K, Harshini V M, Jenifa D, Jona Delcy C A, Kathirvel S, Killi Uma Maheswara Rao, Kiruthik Kanna M, Kurra Vishnu Sai, Madhumithaa G K, Navin Kumar V, Ram Charan Golla, Revathi T, Rishikkanth R, Sanjay Krishna M V, Surendra Vendra
arXiv:2606. 04145v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloud LLM fine-tuning platforms increasingly serve RLHF workloads, where a learned reward model is optimized as a proxy for human quality.
By Guilin Zhang, Chuanyi Sun, Shahryar Sarkani, John M. Fossaceca
arXiv:2607. 25970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RL for code correctness is now established: have the model generate a program, run it against hidden test cases, and reward solutions that pass.
By Pierre Chambon, Kunhao Zheng, Juliette Decugis, Benoit Sagot, Gabriel Synnaeve