arXiv:2608. 08722v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benchmarks for systems that are optimized against the evaluation signal measure something different from what they claim.
By V\'ictor Gallego
arXiv:2606. 11348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS) is a computationally expensive stage in the physical design flow, requiring iterative EDA tool invocations to navigate a vast configuration space for optimal power, wirelength, and timing skew.
By Barsat Khadka, Kawsher Roxy, Md Rubel Ahmed
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:2607. 20466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rigorous benchmarks have driven progress in autonomous GPU kernel performance optimization by establishing a shared target to hillclimb on, but no equivalent exists for TPUs.
By Arya Tschand, Charles Hong, Julian Walker, Nina Cai, Shangkun Wang, Suvinay Subramanian, Sundar Dev, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Sethu Sankaran
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
The paper introduces mutation analysis as a metric for evaluating GPU‑kernel benchmark oracles, injecting over ten thousand faults into verified CUDA implementations of 188 KernelBench problems. It shows that the current official checkers miss 16.9% of faults, with precision faults being especially problematic, and demonstrates that optimized test suites can achieve 98% detection with only two inputs per problem. The study also reveals flaws in existing patches and a fuzzing recipe that incorrectly rejects correct kernels 107 times.
By Mingzhe Du, Anh Tuan Luu, Dong Huang, See-Kiong Ng
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: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: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
KernelOPT is a multi‑agent system that optimizes GPU kernels generated by compilers like PyTorch Inductor by treating compiled models as structured artifacts. It preserves vendor library calls and focuses on Triton sub‑kernels, using five profiling‑guided LLM agents and a four‑gate verification cascade to ensure correctness and performance before re‑stitching the model. On 250 KernelBench problems, KernelOPT achieves geometric mean speedups of 1.40×, 1.15×, and 1.07× over torch.compile at three optimization levels.
By Aheli Poddar, Sanskar Prasad, Arindam Samanta, Subha Chakraborty, Vishal Goyal, Rohit Singh Rathaur
AMDKernelVault is an open HIP and Triton kernel corpus and training framework designed for AMD CDNA GPUs. It includes 62,153 verified HIP kernels, 39,893 Triton kernels, and 2,377 ROCm library QA entries, and introduces agent-driven pipelines (HIPKernelGen and TritonKernelGen) that convert PyTorch references into GPU kernels, compile, validate, and profile them on AMD hardware. The corpus was used to fine‑tune Qwen3-8B, achieving the highest correctness on several benchmarks such as PyTorch-to-HIP, TritonBench‑G, and ROCmBench under fixed evaluation budgets.
By Ji Liu, Saptarshi Majumder, Yiqing Huang, Wenwen Ouyang, Umang Pandey, Zeping Li, Chushi Chen, Zihao An, Puyuan Yang, Zekai Li, Sina Rafati, Ziqiong Liu, Pratik Prabhanjan Brahma, Dong Li, Zicheng Liu, Sharon Zhou, Emad Barsoum
KernelOPT is a multi-agent system that optimizes GPU kernels generated by compilers like PyTorch Inductor by treating compiled models as structured artifacts. It preserves vendor library calls and focuses on Triton sub-kernels, using five profiling-guided LLM agents and a four-gate verification cascade to filter and validate candidates. On 250 KernelBench problems, KernelOPT achieves geometric mean speedups of 1.40×, 1.15×, and 1.07× over torch.compile at different optimization levels.