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KForge: Program Synthesis for Diverse AI Hardware Accelerators

arXiv 2511.13274 ↗First posted 17 Nov 2025cs.LG cs.AI cs.MAcited by 3

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Abstract (arXiv)

GPU kernels are critical for ML performance but difficult to optimize across diverse accelerators. We present KForge, a platform-agnostic framework built on two collaborative LLM-based agents: a generation agent that produces and iteratively refines programs through compilation and correctness feedback, and a performance analysis agent that interprets profiling data to guide optimization. This agent-based architecture requires only a single-shot example to target new platforms. We make three key contributions: (1) introducing an iterative refinement system where the generation agent and performance analysis agent collaborate through functional and optimization passes, interpreting diverse profiling data (from programmatic APIs to GUI-based tools) to generate actionable recommendations that guide program synthesis for arbitrary accelerators; (2) demonstrating that the generation agent effectively leverages cross-platform knowledge transfer, where a reference implementation from one architecture substantially improves generation quality for different hardware targets; and (3) validating the platform-agnostic nature of our approach by demonstrating effective program synthesis across fundamentally different parallel computing platforms: NVIDIA CUDA and Apple Metal.

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  1. 2026KForge: LLM-Driven Cross-Platform Kernel Generation for AI Accelerators
  2. 2026KernelCraft: Benchmarking for Agentic Close-to-Metal Kernel Generation on Emerging Hardware
  3. 2026D2K-Bench: Can LLM Agents Turn Expert Designs into Efficient GPU Kernels?
  4. 2025STARK: Strategic Team of Agents for Refining Kernels
  5. 2026CuTeGen: An LLM-Based Agentic Framework for Generation and Optimization of High-Performance GPU Kernels using CuTe
  6. 2026Agentic Kernel Optimization: Generating State-of-the-Art GPU Kernels Without Hand-Written CUDA
  7. 2026FastKernels: Benchmarking GPU Kernel Generation in Production
  8. 2026KernelSkill: A Multi-Agent Framework for GPU Kernel Optimization