4 papers
CODA: Rewriting Transformer Blocks as GEMM-Epilogue Programs
Han Guo, Jack Zhang, Arjun Menon +4
Transformer training systems are built around dense linear algebra, yet a nontrivial fraction of end-to-end time is spent on surrounding memory-bound operators. Normalization, acti…
Speculative Speculative Decoding
Tanishq Kumar, Tri Dao, Avner May
Autoregressive decoding is bottlenecked by its sequential nature. Speculative decoding has become a standard way to accelerate inference by using a fast draft model to predict upco…
FlashAttention-4: Algorithm and Kernel Pipelining Co-Design for Asymmetric Hardware Scaling
Ted Zadouri, Markus Hoehnerbach, Jay Shah +3
Attention, as a core layer of the ubiquitous Transformer architecture, is the bottleneck for large language models and long-context applications. While FlashAttention-3 optimized a…
AI+HW 2035: Shaping the Next Decade
Deming Chen, Jason Cong, Azalia Mirhoseini +27
Artificial intelligence (AI) and hardware (HW) are advancing at unprecedented rates, yet their trajectories have become inseparably intertwined. The global research community lacks…