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.
Autotriton: Automatic triton programming with reinforcement learning in llms
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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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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.