arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Towards Automated Kernel Generation in the Era of LLMs

arXiv:2601. 15727v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The performance of modern AI systems is fundamentally constrained by the quality of their underlying GPU kernels, which translate high-level algorithmic semantics into low-level hardware operations.

By Yang Yu, Peiyu Zang, Chi Hsu Tsai, Haiming Wu, Yixin Shen, Jialing Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Zhiyou Xiao, Jingze Shi, Yuyu Luo, Wentao Zhang, Chunlei Men, Guang Liu, Yonghua Lin
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 Machine Learning
Sep 4

KernelFoundry: Hardware-aware evolutionary GPU kernel optimization

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