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most citedBreaking the Mold: Nonlinear Ranking Function Synthesis Without Templates

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cs.CL2026

PTXBench: Benchmarking and Adapting LLMs for GPU Kernel Optimization with Architecture-specific PTX

Genghan Zhang, Yixin Dong, Chengze Fan +4

We introduce PTXBench, a benchmark for evaluating and adapting large language models (LLMs) to use architecture-specific PTX for GPU kernel optimization. PTXBench measures function…

cs.PL2026

Axon: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer for Tensor Programs

Akash Kothari, Shaowei Zhu, Daniel Kroening +1

Writing high performance kernels for AI accelerators requires deep expertise in tiling, instruction selection, data layout, and operator fusion placing a significant burden on prog…

cs.AI2026

MKEvolve: A Modular Multi-Agent Framework for Kernel Code Generation

Jason Yoo, Rajarshi Saha, Shaowei Zhu +3

Despite rapid progress in LLM-based code generation, writing correct and performant kernels for hardware accelerators remains a key bottleneck in scaling modern ML workloads. We pr…

cs.DC2026

Ekka: Automated Diagnosis of Silent Errors in LLM Inference

Yile Gu, Zhen Zhang, Shaowei Zhu +4

LLM serving frameworks are quickly evolving with a complex software stack and a vast number of optimizations. The rapid development process can introduce silent errors where output…

cs.PL2026

A Categorical Basis for Robust Program Analysis

Zachary Kincaid, Shaowei Zhu

Users of program analyses expect that results change predictably in response to changes in their programs, but many analyses fail to provide such robustness. This paper introduces…

cs.LG2025

AccelOpt: A Self-Improving LLM Agentic System for AI Accelerator Kernel Optimization

Genghan Zhang, Shaowei Zhu, Anjiang Wei +6

We present AccelOpt, a self-improving large language model (LLM) agentic system that autonomously optimizes kernels for emerging AI acclerators, eliminating the need for expert-pro…

cs.SE2025

TritonRL: Training LLMs to Think and Code Triton Without Cheating

Jiin Woo, Shaowei Zhu, Allen Nie +3

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven a growing demand for automated, high-performance system kernels to accelerate machine learning workloads. We introduc…

cs.LG2025

Verifying Computational Graphs in Production-Grade Distributed Machine Learning Frameworks

Kahfi S. Zulkifli, Wenbo Qian, Shaowei Zhu +3

Modern machine learning frameworks support very large models by incorporating parallelism and optimization techniques. Yet, these very techniques add new layers of complexity, intr…

cs.DC2025

TTrace: Lightweight Error Checking and Diagnosis for Distributed Training

Haitian Jiang, Shaowei Zhu, Zhen Zhang +5

Distributed training is essential for scaling the training of large neural network models, such as large language models (LLMs), across thousands of GPUs. However, the complexity o…

cs.PL2024★ 2 cited

Breaking the Mold: Nonlinear Ranking Function Synthesis Without Templates

Shaowei Zhu, Zachary Kincaid

This paper studies the problem of synthesizing (lexicographic) polynomial ranking functions for loops that can be described in polynomial arithmetic over integers and reals. While…