arXiv AI

Are LLM-Generated GPU Kernels Production-Ready? A Trace-Driven Benchmark and Optimization Agent

arXiv:2607. 14541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing GPU kernel generation benchmarks draw problems from synthetic or curated sources that diverge from deployed workloads.

arXiv AI
Jul 29

Kernel Forge: An Agent Harness for LLM-based Generation and Optimization of CUDA Kernels

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 AI
Jun 30

KernelSight-LM: A Kernel-Level LLM Inference Simulator

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 Machine Learning
Jun 26

Optimizing CUDA like a Human: Micro-Profiling Tools as Expert Surrogates for LLM-Based GPU Kernel Optimization

arXiv:2606. 26453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present KernelPro, a closed-loop multi-agent system that automatically generates, profiles, and iteratively optimizes GPU kernel code by integrating large language model (LLM) code generation with hardware profiler feedback and pluggable bottleneck detection tools.

By Jiading Gai, Shuai Zhang, Kaj Bostrom, Jin Huang, Vihang Patil, Haoyang Fang, Bernie Wang, Huzefa Rangwala, George Karypis
arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

CAKE: Compiler-Agent Co-Design for Frontier Kernel Evolution

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 20

Harness Engineering for LLM-Driven GPU Kernel Generation

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. This paper presents a harness-centered system for LLM-driven GPU kernel optimization in the MLSys 2026 FlashInfer AI Kernel Generation Contest on NVIDIA Blackwell B200 GPUs.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Towards Automated Kernel Generation in the Era of LLMs

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