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arxiv: 2606.26344 · v1 · pith:7TZTMZCEnew · submitted 2026-06-24 · 💻 cs.PL · cs.CL· cs.PF

Axon: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer for Tensor Programs

Akash Kothari , Shaowei Zhu , Daniel Kroening , Chungha Sung This is my paper

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keywords tensor programssuperoptimizerprogram synthesisSMTAI acceleratorsoperator fusionalgebraic transformationskernel optimization
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The pith

Axon uses SMT over unbounded tensors to automatically discover and verify algebraic transformations for tensor programs without hand-crafted rewrite rules.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Writing high-performance kernels for AI accelerators requires experts to manually manage tiling, instruction selection, data layout, and fusion. Axon instead starts from semantic specifications and uses program synthesis to generate candidate instructions while exploring equivalent program variants for empirical performance selection. It finds algebraic transformations by propagating operators through the computation graph and invokes an SMT solver over unbounded tensor domains to confirm that each transformation preserves semantics. This removes the need to write and maintain domain-specific rewrite rules by hand. A sympathetic reader would care because the approach could systematize what is now an ad-hoc and expertise-heavy step in accelerator programming.

Core claim

Axon is a synthesizing superoptimizer that automatically generates target instructions from semantics specifications, explores semantically equivalent program variants to select the best performing kernel empirically, discovers algebraic transformations by propagating operators through computation graphs, and uses SMT over unbounded tensors to guarantee that all transformations preserve semantics without requiring hand crafted rewrite rules; it then lowers tensor operations to target ISA instructions, explores tiling configurations constrained by hardware descriptions, and fuses operators and instructions to minimize memory traffic.

What carries the argument

SMT encoding of tensor semantics over unbounded domains, used to validate transformations discovered by operator propagation through computation graphs.

If this is right

  • Algebraic transformations become discoverable without maintaining libraries of hand-crafted rewrite rules.
  • Kernels can be lowered, tiled, and fused while respecting hardware constraints supplied as descriptions.
  • Performance selection occurs by empirical measurement of synthesized variants rather than static heuristics.
  • Semantic preservation holds for all transformations because each is checked by the SMT solver over unbounded domains.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same SMT-based verification could be applied to other program domains that currently rely on rewrite-rule engines.
  • If the unbounded-domain encoding scales, it removes a common source of incompleteness in bounded model checking of tensor code.
  • Hardware description files could become the primary interface for retargeting the optimizer to new accelerators.

Load-bearing premise

The SMT encoding of tensor semantics over unbounded domains is both sound and complete enough to validate the algebraic transformations found by operator propagation.

What would settle it

A concrete tensor input and output pair where an SMT-approved transformation produces different results from the original program, or a valid semantic equivalence that the SMT solver rejects.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.26344 by Akash Kothari, Chungha Sung, Daniel Kroening, Shaowei Zhu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of Axon’s workflow. Axon then lowers each tensor operation to target ISA instructions via sketch-driven program synthesis, using semantics specifica￾tions that describe each instruction’s compu￾tation and hardware constraints. It explores tiling configurations using symbolic parame￾ters constrained by the hardware description, and fuses operators and instructions to mini￾mize memory traffic. All v… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: An Axon program for RMSNorm+MatMul using NumPy-like interfaces. We illustrate Axon’s approach using a ker￾nel composed of RMSNorm [56] followed by a matrix multiplication—a computation pattern that appears multiple times per transformer layer in modern LLMs such as LLaMA-3 [20], where RMSNorm precedes each linear projec￾tion (QKV, output, and FFN layers) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: (a) Computation graph for RMSNorm+MatMul [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Trainium’s NeuronCore [9] [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: NKI kernel for tiled matrix multiplication on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Example of lowering of 𝜈Graphs from a high￾level computational graph in (a) to a hardware-agnostic tiled representation in (b), and to two variants of graphs with Trainium-specific ISA, and information on hardware-specific tiling constraints and engines in (c). Exploration and extraction. Like equality sat￾uration, the 𝜈Graph follows an exploration phase and an extraction phase. During explo￾ration, each p… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Gated MLP: (a) Original computation graph; (b) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Tiling of 𝜈Graph for Gated MLP with strip, block, and tile dimensions for each operation. Axon preserves all variants where 𝐺0 ≡ 𝐺1 ≡ · · · ≡ 𝐺𝑛 and selects the best-performing one empirically when concrete input shapes are known (Section 4.6). Although the number of variants is worst-case exponential, in practice most operator pairs are not swappable and ML kernels typically contain < 10 operators. Operat… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Semantics of matmul tensor operation in Axon. For example, in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Tiling of 𝜈Graphs for RMSNorm+MatMul. Each subfigure shows the high-level graph (top) and its tiled representation (bottom). In (b), multiply is propagated past matmul, creating two parallel branches that execute on different compute engines (Tensor Engine for matmul, Vector/Scalar Engine for RMS) with independent tiling parameters. Tiling and Operator Reordering [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: shows the ISA semantics for Trainium’s nc_matmul, which computes a ⊤b. The hardware constraints (K <= 128, M <= 128, N <= 512) reflect the Tensor Engine’s tile dimension limits on Trainium. These constraints are imposed on the symbolic tiling parameters from Section 4.3, ensuring that synthesized code respects hardware limitations when emitting code in Section 4.6. @semantics () def nc_matmul ( a : SymTen… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: (a) Tiled 𝜈Graph for Gated MLP; (b) ISA 𝜈Graph after synthesis; (c) Mutated ISA 𝜈Graph af￾ter moving activation and tensor_tensor past transpose, resulting in discovery of fusible opera￾tions; (d) ISA 𝜈Graph after fusion—the operands of nc_matmul and their tile and block dimensions are swapped. Instruction-specific tile size constraints and engine choices are omitted for brevity. Instruction Fusion. The m… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Speedups of Axon and Mirage on Matrix Multiplication relative to the Neuron Compiler across different input dimension sizes (M×N×K). MatMul has three dimensions, thus separate from [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: (a) Computation graph for Softmax+MatMul. (b) Semantically equivalent Softmax+MatMul graph [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Impact of disabling algebraic transformations and fusion on four multi-operator benchmarks across [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_15.png] view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: shows the NKI kernel generated by Axon for the RMSNorm+MatMul input program from [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_16.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Writing high performance kernels for AI accelerators requires deep expertise in tiling, instruction selection, data layout, and operator fusion placing a significant burden on programmers. In this paper, we focus on tile based AI accelerator programs and present Axon, a synthesizing superoptimizer for tensor programs: it uses program synthesis to automatically generate target instructions from semantics specifications, and explores semantically equivalent program variants to select the best performing kernel empirically. Axon discovers algebraic transformations by propagating operators through computation graphs and uses SMT over unbounded tensors to guarantee that all transformations preserve semantics without requiring hand crafted rewrite rules. It then lowers tensor operations to target ISA instructions, explores tiling configurations constrained by hardware descriptions, and fuses operators and instructions to minimize memory traffic.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper presents Axon, a synthesizing superoptimizer for tensor programs targeting AI accelerators. It claims to use program synthesis to generate target instructions from semantic specifications, discover algebraic transformations via operator propagation in computation graphs, and apply SMT solving over unbounded tensors to guarantee that all transformations preserve semantics without hand-crafted rewrite rules. The system then lowers tensor operations to target ISA instructions, explores hardware-constrained tiling configurations, and fuses operators/instructions to minimize memory traffic.

Significance. If the SMT encoding is shown to be sound and sufficiently complete, the approach would offer a notable advance in automated kernel optimization by replacing manual rewrite rules with formally verified algebraic transformations discovered through synthesis and propagation, potentially easing the expertise burden for high-performance tensor code on accelerators.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that 'SMT over unbounded tensors' guarantees semantic preservation without hand-crafted rules depends on an encoding of tensor operations (broadcasting, reductions, elementwise ops) whose soundness and completeness are not described, derived, or validated anywhere in the manuscript; no encoding details, meta-proof, or test suite of known equivalences is supplied.
  2. [Abstract] The workflow description: operator propagation is asserted to produce semantics-preserving rewrites solely via SMT, yet the manuscript supplies neither the SMT encoding of unbounded tensor semantics nor any argument that the solver's decisions are faithful to the actual tensor semantics (e.g., shape-dependent behavior or reduction semantics).
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract is overloaded; separating the synthesis, SMT verification, lowering, and empirical search phases into distinct sentences or a short workflow diagram would improve readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the careful review and for identifying the need for explicit details on the SMT encoding. We agree that the current presentation leaves the soundness argument implicit and will revise the manuscript accordingly.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that 'SMT over unbounded tensors' guarantees semantic preservation without hand-crafted rules depends on an encoding of tensor operations (broadcasting, reductions, elementwise ops) whose soundness and completeness are not described, derived, or validated anywhere in the manuscript; no encoding details, meta-proof, or test suite of known equivalences is supplied.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the manuscript does not supply the concrete SMT encoding, a meta-proof of soundness, or an equivalence test suite. In the revision we will insert a new subsection (approximately 4.2) that (1) defines the SMT encoding for broadcasting, reductions, and elementwise operations over unbounded tensors, (2) sketches the soundness argument with respect to the standard tensor semantics, and (3) reports a validation suite of 50+ known algebraic equivalences that the solver confirms. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] The workflow description: operator propagation is asserted to produce semantics-preserving rewrites solely via SMT, yet the manuscript supplies neither the SMT encoding of unbounded tensor semantics nor any argument that the solver's decisions are faithful to the actual tensor semantics (e.g., shape-dependent behavior or reduction semantics).

    Authors: The observation is correct; the current text does not detail how the SMT encoding captures shape-dependent behavior or reduction semantics. The revised manuscript will augment the operator-propagation description with the precise encoding rules and an explicit argument that the solver decisions remain faithful to the tensor semantics, including the handling of shape-dependent broadcasting and reduction identities. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: derivation relies on external SMT solvers and hardware measurements

full rationale

The paper presents Axon as using program synthesis, operator propagation through graphs, SMT solving over unbounded tensors for semantic equivalence, and empirical performance selection via hardware measurements. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are shown that reduce any claimed result to its own inputs by construction. The soundness of the SMT encoding is an external assumption (not derived within the paper), and the approach is self-contained against independent benchmarks like solver results and runtime measurements. This matches the default expectation of no significant circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review supplies no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the central claim rests on the unstated correctness of the SMT encoding and the feasibility of the search.

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