arXiv AI June 30, 2026 By V\'ictor Gallego

Metal-Sci: A Scientific Compute Benchmark for Evolutionary LLM Kernel Search on Apple Silicon

arXiv:2605. 09708v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Metal-Sci, a 10-task benchmark of scientific Apple Silicon Metal compute kernels spanning six optimization regimes (stencils, all-pairs in $n$-body problems, multi-field Boltzmann, neighbor-list molecular dynamics, multi-kernel PDE, FFT).

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arXiv AI

Aug 11

Gaming Without an Attacker: Benchmark Fingerprinting in LLM-Driven Search Under Selection Pressure

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

llms benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 11

SwiftCTS: Fast Cross-Design Prediction and Pareto Optimization of Clock Tree Metrics via Few-Shot Calibration

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

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arXiv AI

Jul 17

Are LLM-Generated GPU Kernels Production-Ready? A Trace-Driven Benchmark and Optimization Agent

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

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arXiv AI

Jul 24

JAXBench: Benchmarking Autonomous TPU Kernel Optimization

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

llms agents benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 26

Optimizing CUDA like a Human: Micro-Profiling Tools as Expert Surrogates for LLM-Based GPU Kernel Optimization

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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Sep 22

Measuring the Checker: Mutation Analysis for GPU-Kernel Benchmark Oracles

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

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