FastKernels is a production-aligned benchmark covering 96.2% of HuggingFace Transformers that reveals state-of-the-art kernel agents deliver at most 0.94x aggregate speedup.
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AgentKernelArena is a new open benchmark that measures complete AI agent workflows on 196 GPU kernel tasks with correctness, performance, and generalization checks to unseen configurations.
KernelBenchX benchmark shows task category explains nearly three times more variance in LLM kernel correctness than method choice, iterative refinement boosts correctness but reduces performance, and quantization remains unsolved.
MusaCoder combines kernel-oriented data synthesis, diversity-preserving fine-tuning, and stabilized RL with MooreEval to produce correct, fast GPU kernels, with its 27B model setting new SOTA on KernelBench and a MUSA variant.
KLineage derives verified optimization skills from backward lineages of expert GPU kernels to guide LLM agents toward higher-quality and more efficient kernels than memory-based baselines.
AutoVecCoder combines VecPrompt for automated intrinsic knowledge synthesis and VecRL for efficiency-aligned RL to train an 8B LLM that achieves SOTA on SimdBench SSE/AVX subsets and sometimes exceeds -O3 compiler results.
Kernel-Smith combines evolutionary search with RL post-training to generate optimized GPU kernels, achieving SOTA speedups on KernelBench that beat Gemini-3.0-pro and Claude-4.6-opus on NVIDIA Triton and generalize to MetaX MACA.
AscendOptimizer combines kernel rewinding for reusable experience with evolutionary search on hardware feedback to optimize Ascend NPU operators, delivering 1.21x geometric-mean speedup and faster performance on 53.47% of 101 tested operators versus baseline.
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FastKernels: Benchmarking GPU Kernel Generation in Production
FastKernels is a production-aligned benchmark covering 96.2% of HuggingFace Transformers that reveals state-of-the-art kernel agents deliver at most 0.94x aggregate speedup.
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AgentKernelArena: Generalization-Aware Benchmarking of GPU Kernel Optimization Agents
AgentKernelArena is a new open benchmark that measures complete AI agent workflows on 196 GPU kernel tasks with correctness, performance, and generalization checks to unseen configurations.
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KernelBenchX: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-Generated GPU Kernels
KernelBenchX benchmark shows task category explains nearly three times more variance in LLM kernel correctness than method choice, iterative refinement boosts correctness but reduces performance, and quantization remains unsolved.
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MusaCoder: Native GPU Kernel Generation with Full-Stack Training on Moore Threads GPU
MusaCoder combines kernel-oriented data synthesis, diversity-preserving fine-tuning, and stabilized RL with MooreEval to produce correct, fast GPU kernels, with its 27B model setting new SOTA on KernelBench and a MUSA variant.
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Learning When to Optimize: Verified Optimization Skills from Expert GPU-Kernel Lineages
KLineage derives verified optimization skills from backward lineages of expert GPU kernels to guide LLM agents toward higher-quality and more efficient kernels than memory-based baselines.
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AutoVecCoder: Teaching LLMs to Generate Explicitly Vectorized Code
AutoVecCoder combines VecPrompt for automated intrinsic knowledge synthesis and VecRL for efficiency-aligned RL to train an 8B LLM that achieves SOTA on SimdBench SSE/AVX subsets and sometimes exceeds -O3 compiler results.
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Kernel-Smith: A Unified Recipe for Evolutionary Kernel Optimization
Kernel-Smith combines evolutionary search with RL post-training to generate optimized GPU kernels, achieving SOTA speedups on KernelBench that beat Gemini-3.0-pro and Claude-4.6-opus on NVIDIA Triton and generalize to MetaX MACA.
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AscendOptimizer: Episodic Agent for Ascend NPU Operator Optimization
AscendOptimizer combines kernel rewinding for reusable experience with evolutionary search on hardware feedback to optimize Ascend NPU operators, delivering 1.21x geometric-mean speedup and faster performance on 53.47% of 101 tested operators versus baseline.