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[Submitted on 16 Sep 2026] Title:Do AI Agents Understand Computer Architecture? View a PDF of the paper titled Do AI Agents Understand Computer Architecture?, by Ambika Sharan and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Agents are increasingly asked to design hardware, and increasingly reported to succeed. Such reports establish that a design improved; they cannot establish why. An agent that improves an accelerator may be reasoning about the machine, or may be searching competently over knobs whose meaning it never recovers -- and only the first transfers to the next architecture. Existing evaluations cannot tell the two apart, because they vary the agent while holding the framing of the problem fixed. We do the opposite. AutoTuring hands the same agent the same 15-dimensional accelerator space twice: once as named architectural knobs with simulator counters, once as anonymous variables on [0,1], with the evaluator, the legal space and the reachable optima held identical, so that the only thing that varies is whether the problem means anything. The gap between the two is the measurement. On a nine-kernel FP16 GEMM basket, meaning pays: the architect beats a modeled H200 by 5.4% and its blind counterpart by 12.3% on average, with 70.1% fewer simulator calls. It does not pay uniquely: a critic loop recovers most of that gap for the blind agent and buys the architect nothing, so architectural knowledge and structured critique behave as substitutes rather than as complements. We report these as preliminary findings -- five to six runs per condition on a single modeled accelerator -- and take the comparison itself, not the accelerator, to be the contribution. Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Hardware Architecture (cs.AR) ACM classes: C.1.3; I.2.8; B.8.2 Cite as: arXiv:2609.19387 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2609.19387v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.19387 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Soheil Abbasloo [view email] [v1] Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:10:28 UTC (1,282 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Do AI Agents Understand Computer Architecture?, by Ambika Sharan and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.AI new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs cs.AR References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)