arXiv AI

KOSMOS: Self-scheduling Persistent Kernels for Communication-Compute Overlap

KOSMOS is a library that enables self‑scheduling persistent kernels for transformer training, allowing workgroups to switch between communication and computation roles as data becomes ready without a scheduler or tuned split. It fuses all tensor and sequence parallelism collectives with GEMM operations and runs entire expert layers in a single launch per direction. On AMD Instinct GPUs, KOSMOS improves TP+SP end‑to‑end training in Megatron‑LM by up to 1.28× and accelerates DeepSeek‑V3 and Qwen3‑235B proxies by 1.29–1.83× over DeepEP.

arXiv AI
Jul 28

X-Stage: An Overlooked Pipeline Stage for Communication-Computation Overlap in DiT Inference

arXiv:2607. 23264v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-grained, device-initiated communication lets persistent GPU kernels in distributed diffusion transformer (DiT) inference issue remote stores and overlap data movement with Tensor Core computation.

By Jianwen Xian, Zhiyuan Xu, Yuchen Li, Ziliang Lai, Kang He, Zhen Huang, Aichen Feng, Jinyan Chen, Yilin Zhang, Qinqin Chen, Chengru Song
arXiv AI
Sep 15

mKernel: Fast Multi-GPU, Multi-Node Fused Kernels

arXiv:2609.13585v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Communication has become a bottleneck in distributed training and inference of large models. Overlapping communication with computation at the granul...

By Ziming Mao, Yihan Zhang, Shawn Wei Chew, Shuang Ma, Costin Raiciu, Yang Zhou, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

MPK: A Compiler and Runtime for Mega-Kernelizing Tensor Programs

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 Machine Learning
Sep 1

WiSP: A Working-Set View of Mixture-of-Experts Serving on Extremely Low-Resource Hardware

WiSP (Working‑Set Paging) is a routing‑aware expert pager that allows Mixture‑of‑Experts models to run on GPUs that cannot hold the entire expert pool by paging experts in and out of VRAM while preserving byte‑identical outputs. On a 24 GiB RTX 3090, WiSP doubles decode throughput compared to static offload when the model does not fit, and its companion policy MV‑WSA allocates VRAM between resident experts and KV cache based on marginal latency benefit, reducing end‑to‑end time by up to 1.19× without altering model outputs.

By Jiamu Zhang, Liang Wu, Mayank Darbari, Liangjie Hong
arXiv AI
Oct 5

FastKernels: Benchmarking GPU Kernel Generation in Production

FastKernels is a benchmark comprising 384 GPU kernel tasks from 47 architectures across 8 categories, designed to evaluate kernel generation agents in realistic production settings. It covers 94.6% of HuggingFace Transformers architectures, scoring kernels on correctness, coverage, and speedup within their native execution paths. The benchmark reveals that kernel‑level speedups often collapse to modest end‑to‑end gains and that isolated performance rankings can misrepresent real‑world effectiveness.

By Gabriele Oliaro, Jaeseong Lee, Yichao Fu, Zhaoyuan Su, Owen Lu, Sreeram Vennam, May Jiang, Junli Wang, Hao Zhang, Zhihao Jia, Samyam Rajbhandari