KernelArc: A Multi-Agent Framework for GPU Kernel Optimization

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Title:KernelArc: A Multi-Agent Framework for GPU Kernel Optimization

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Abstract:We present KernelArc, a multi-agent framework for autonomous GPU kernel optimization across heterogeneous workloads. Strategy-specialized agents run in parallel and coordinate through conclusions-only shared memory, a deterministic benchmark guard, and read-only cross-agent state with plateau-triggered drafting. We evaluate \kernelarc{} on NVIDIA H100 and B200 GPUs using category-representative SOL-ExecBench workloads. The resulting implementations span custom BF16 GEMM, static cuBLASLt Expert-API configuration tables, fused mixture-of-experts backward, shape-gated decoder-layer fusion, native NVFP4 grouped-query attention, and paged prefill attention. At the public SOL-ExecBench leaderboard snapshot recorded on July~30, 2026, these submissions ranked first on representative L1, L2, Quantization, and FlashInfer tasks. The trajectories support the paper's central motivation: shared multi-agent search can broaden exploration and reach stronger incumbents within a fixed candidate budget, while the value of individual coordination features depends on the kernel and optimization stage.

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures

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Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Performance (cs.PF)

Cite as: arXiv:2608.17071 [cs.AI]

(or arXiv:2608.17071v1 [cs.AI] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.17071

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From: Joyjit Kundu [view email] [v1] Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:21:23 UTC (135 KB)

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