6 papers
SOLAR: AI-Powered Speed-of-Light Performance Analysis
Qijing Huang, Sana Damani, Zhifan Ye +9
How fast could a deep-learning model run on target hardware, and how far is today's implementation from that limit? These questions are central to software, hardware, and algorithm…
AVO: Agentic Variation Operators for Autonomous Evolutionary Search
Terry Chen, Zhifan Ye, Bing Xu +20
Agentic Variation Operators (AVO) are a new family of evolutionary variation operators that replace the fixed mutation, crossover, and hand-designed heuristics of classical evoluti…
SOL-ExecBench: Speed-of-Light Benchmarking for Real-World GPU Kernels Against Hardware Limits
Edward Lin, Sahil Modi, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari +30
As agentic AI systems become increasingly capable of generating and optimizing GPU kernels, progress is constrained by benchmarks that reward speedup over software baselines rather…
Le-DETR: Revisiting Real-Time Detection Transformer with Efficient Encoder Design
Jiannan Huang, Aditya Kane, Fengzhe Zhou +2
Real-time object detection is crucial for real-world applications as it requires high accuracy with low latency. While Detection Transformers (DETR) have demonstrated significant p…
Person Recognition at Altitude and Range: Fusion of Face, Body Shape and Gait
Feng Liu, Nicholas Chimitt, Lanqing Guo +16
We address the problem of whole-body person recognition in unconstrained environments. This problem arises in surveillance scenarios such as those in the IARPA Biometric Recognitio…
Generalized Neighborhood Attention: Multi-dimensional Sparse Attention at the Speed of Light
Ali Hassani, Fengzhe Zhou, Aditya Kane +13
Many sparse attention mechanisms such as Neighborhood Attention have typically failed to consistently deliver speedup over the self attention baseline. This is largely due to the l…