arXiv:2608. 01536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on sparsity to reduce inference cost, but most prior work targets a single sparsity source-either weight or activation-and optimizes for batched multi-user inference.
By Ruokai Yin, Priyadarshini Panda
arXiv:2607. 08786v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the growing deployment of large language models (LLMs), LLM inference cost has become a key challenge.
By Tao Lu, Haoyu Wang, Zonghui Wang, Keshen Xiang, Jiaheng Zhang, Wenzhi Chen
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: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: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: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: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:2602. 24044v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) adapters enable low-cost model specialization, but introduce complex caching and scheduling challenges in distributed serving systems where hundreds of adapters must be hosted concurrently.
By Ferran Agullo, Joan Oliveras, Chen Wang, Alberto Gutierrez-Torre, Olivier Tardieu, Alaa Youssef, Jordi Torres, Josep Ll. Berral
arXiv:2604. 23466v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: NVIDIA's CUDA Tile (CuTile) introduces a Python-based, tile-centric abstraction for GPU kernel development that aims to simplify programming while retaining Tensor Core and Tensor Memory Accelerator (TMA) efficiency on modern GPUs.
By Divakar Kumar Yadav, Tian Zhao, Deepak Kumar
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:2607. 21985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing deployment of large language models (LLMs) has magnified the computational and memory bottlenecks of autoregressive decoding, where low compute intensity and bandwidth-bound kernels dominate inference cost.
By Jinhyeok Kim, Yejoon Lee, Jaeyoung Do
arXiv:2607. 17979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 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.
By Yue Shui, Chenyu Ma, Hangfei Xu, Shengzhao Wen, Yanpeng Wang