arXiv AI

D2K-Bench: Can LLM Agents Turn Expert Designs into Efficient GPU Kernels?

arXiv AI
Sep 30

KLineage: Recovering the Missing When of Kernel Optimization by Deoptimizing Experts

arXiv:2605.28213v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM-based agents are increasingly used to generate GPU kernels, but they often struggle to determine when an optimization is sound because its requ...

By Shuoming Zhang, Qiuchu Yu, Ruiyuan Xu, Chenjing Zhang, Junjie Peng, Zhicheng Xie, Yangyu Zhang, Xiyu Shi, Ying Liu, Guangli Li, Xiaobing Feng, Huimin Cui, Xingjun Zhang, Jiacheng Zhao
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 AI
Sep 16

Ave: Guiding Agentic GPU Optimization Using Data-Flow Invariants

arXiv:2604.18616v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM coding agents can generate correct GPU kernels, but their performance still trails expert libraries. Reaching peak throughput requires co...

By Haohui Mai, Xiaoyan Guo, Xiangyun Ding, Daifeng Li, Qiuchu Yu, Chenzhun Guo, Cong Wang, Jiacheng Zhao, Christos Kozyrakis, Binhang Yuan
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
Aug 14

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
arXiv AI
Aug 19

KernelArc: A Multi-Agent Framework for GPU Kernel Optimization

KernelArc is a multi-agent framework designed to autonomously optimize GPU kernels across diverse workloads. It employs strategy-specialized agents that run concurrently, coordinating via conclusions-only shared memory, a deterministic benchmark guard, and read-only cross-agent state with plateau-triggered drafting. Evaluated on NVIDIA H100 and B200 GPUs with SOL-ExecBench workloads, KernelArc produced top-ranked implementations for tasks such as BF16 GEMM, cuBLASLt configuration tables, and various attention mechanisms, achieving first place on several leaderboard categories.

By Joyjit Kundu, Ben Stoffelen, Kaili Wang, Peter Vrancx, Ludovic Denoyer