KernelGenBench: A Multi-Source and Multi-Chip Benchmark for LLM-based Kernel Generation
2026-09-07 12:00Science🔥 42.2 heat score
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On September 7, 2026, arXiv released KernelGenBench, the first unified multi-source, multi-chip infrastructure for evaluating large language models and agent-generated Triton kernels. This benchmark covers six hardware platforms, including 210 operators from PyTorch ATen, production vLLM, and proprietary cuBLAS, with 110 operators tested to be semantically stable on all six platforms. The evaluation process consumed over 15 billion tokens. The results showed that while agent execution improved accuracy, none of the methods had a clear advantage across all sources and platforms: vLLM presented the strongest challenge in accuracy, cuBLAS set the upper limit for performance, and AutoKernel’s accuracy dropped from 87% on the NVIDIA platform to 25% on the Iluvatar CoreX platform. The dedicated agents averaged approximately 4.99 million tokens per successful operator.