Operator-Aware Mixed-Precision Tolerance Calibration for Tensor Kernels

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[Submitted on 23 Jun 2026]

Title:Operator-Aware Mixed-Precision Tolerance Calibration for Tensor Kernels

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Abstract:Most tensor-kernel correctness tests go through a fixed-shape all close-style check with hand-picked absolute and relative tolerances. The thresholds are copied across the corpus and rarely revisited. We mine the element-wise error distribution of every test case from accumulated cloud GPU runs across the 26-entry gpuemu corpus and 2 dtypes (8,076 result rows). We then ask one empirical question: what absolute tolerance would the kernel itself, observed under its correct implementation, justify?

The answer is much tighter than the current hand-picked atol. The largest tightening is attention_triton fp16 at $2{,}184\times$. Restricted to the seven LLM-style buggy variants for which the corpus ships a paired correct counterpart, calibrated per-(op, dtype) tolerances raise bug-detection recall from 73.2% (1,805 of 2,467) to 82.4% (2,034 of 2,467), an absolute gain of 9.3 percentage points (+229 new detections). The control false-positive count rises from 0 to 20 out of 1,882 correct-control cases (+1.1 percentage points).

Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure, LNCS format. Companion paper: arXiv:2606.20128 (P1). Additional companions (P3, P4) to follow on arXiv this week; IDs will be added in a v2 replace

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Machine Learning (cs.LG); Mathematical Software (cs.MS)

ACM classes: G.4

Cite as: arXiv:2607.16228 [cs.LG]

(or arXiv:2607.16228v1 [cs.LG] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.16228

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From: Dipankar Sarkar [view email] [v1] Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:50:36 UTC (23 KB)

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