Dispatch-aware agents safely optimize compiler-generated GPU kernels within full models

KernelOPT profiles compiled PyTorch programs, rewrites selected Triton sub-kernels, and verifies each candidate after reintegration into the model.

Industry
Aheli Poddar · Sanskar Prasad · Arindam Samanta · Subha Chakraborty · Vishal Goyal · Rohit Singh Rathaur

Red Hat

Research Digest··2 min read
Poddar et al.

The authors built KernelOPT to treat compiled models as structured programs rather than collections of isolated kernels.

Why this paper

From Red Hat · Released code · Part of Multi-Agent Coordination, now 24 papers

In one line

KernelOPT uses LLM agents to optimize GPU kernels in compiled PyTorch models, achieving geometric mean speedups up to 1.40x over torch.compile.

What it released

Code

What we could check

  • ✓Code link in the paper (github.com)
  • ·No weights link found
  • ·No dataset link found
  • ·No compute details found
  • ·No stated limitations found
  • ·No benchmark numbers found

Observed from the paper text and links we have. Absence here means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.

§
newspaper

Research Digest

Articles published under the Zotpaper byline are synthesized from multiple source publications by our AI editor and reviewed by our editorial process. Each story combines reporting from credible outlets to give readers a balanced, comprehensive view.