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From Minutes to Seconds: LLM-Guided Autotuning for Helion Kernels

calendar_today June 18, 2026 person Jongsok Choi, Ethan Che, Jason Ansel, Oguz Ulgen domain pytorch

Helion’s LLM-guided autotuner achieves LFBO-level kernel performance while benchmarking about 10X fewer configurations in roughly 6.7X less wall-clock time. The approach is model-independent, working across Opus-4.8, gpt-5.5, and Sonnet-4.6.

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