Building an omni-modal foundation model means evaluating it across text, image, video, and audio. Excellent evaluation toolkits exist for each modality, but their inference engines, prompt conventions...
arXiv:2603.13966v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are increasingly evaluated across multiple simulation benchmarks, yet adding each benchmark to an evaluation pi...
By Suhwan Choi, Yunsung Lee, Yubeen Park, Chris Dongjoo Kim, Ranjay Krishna, Dieter Fox, Youngjae Yu
HoliBench is a modular benchmarking and deployment toolkit that jointly measures accuracy, latency, and energy for foundation models across a wide range of devices, from single-board computers to GPU servers. It provides a platform abstraction layer that calibrates cross-device measurements and supports multiple model modalities, inference engines, and quantization levels. Using HoliBench, the authors evaluated 20 models on 7 device types, revealing tradeoffs such as limited latency gains from quantization on low‑precision hardware and diminishing accuracy returns relative to energy consumption, while also showing that single-model profiles can predict multi-model pipeline performance within a few percent.
By Inesh Chakrabarti, Zejun Xiong, Pragya Sharma, Mani Srivastava
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. 02963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production inference increasingly targets a heterogeneous mix of accelerators.
By Taras Sereda, Burak Bartan, Ankita Nayak, Tom St. John, Natalie Serrino, Zain Asgar
KernelFoundry is a hardware‑aware evolutionary framework that optimizes GPU kernels by combining MAP‑Elites quality‑diversity search, meta‑prompt evolution, and template‑based parameter tuning. It generates SYCL and CUDA kernels, outperforming baseline methods with an average 2.3× speedup on KernelBench. The system is distributed, supports remote hardware access, and offers a flexible user interface for diverse real‑world kernel generation tasks.
By Nina Wiedemann, Quentin Leboutet, Michael Paulitsch, Diana Wofk, Benjamin Ummenhofer
arXiv:2607. 22595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability (MI) has emerged as a powerful approach for analyzing and intervening in inference computations, with a growing number of applications such as jailbreak attempt detection, truthfulness evaluation, and hallucination detection.
By Michael Blum, Mark Silberstein, Yaniv David
arXiv:2608. 09666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in visual generative models have enabled high-quality image and video generation, but evaluating these models often demands sampling hundreds or thousands of images or videos, which is computationally expensive.
By Shulin Tian, Ziqi Huang, Fan Zhang, Hongyuan Zhu, Yu Qiao, Ziwei Liu
arXiv:2606. 17574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating a Physical AI stack spans operators that differ by more than three orders of magnitude -- from a single foundation-model decoding step to thousands of physics ticks of whole-body control -- varying orthogonally in modality, reward semantics, and resource profile.
By Siyi Li, Chunyu Sun, Jiahao Zhang, Yuchen Kang, Wuliang Wang, Yu Qiu, Rui Jiang, Haitao Cui, Jie Chen
arXiv:2512. 22219v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Mirage Persistent Kernel (MPK), the first compiler and runtime system that automatically transforms multi-GPU model inference into a single high-performance mega-kernel.
By Xinhao Cheng, Zhihao Zhang, Yu Zhou, Jianan Ji, Jinchen Jiang, Zepeng Zhao, Ziruo Xiao, Zihao Ye, Yingyi Huang, Ruihang Lai, Hongyi Jin, Bohan Hou, Mengdi Wu, Yixin Dong, Anthony Yip, Zihao Ye, Songting Wang, Wenqin Yang, Xupeng Miao, Tianqi Chen, Zhihao Jia
arXiv:2604. 01489v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-performance GPU kernels are critical to modern machine learning systems, yet developing them remains a manual, expert-driven process.
By Tara Saba, Zhiyang Chen, Jikai Jason Li, Anne Ouyang, Xujie Si, Fan Long
arXiv:2605. 21312v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern LLM serving is no longer homogeneous or monolithic.
By Yicheng Feng, Xin Tan, Yangtao Deng, Yimin Jiang, Yibo Zhu, Hong Xu