Kernels designed with KDA placed in the top three on every track of the MLSys 2026 FlashInfer kernel contest. Speedups over the FlashInfer baseline:
| Track | Speedup |
|---|---|
| FP8 MoE | 1.4× |
| DSA | 33.3× |
| GDN | 17.6× |
A kernel contest is the closest thing to an ideal test for an agent loop. The score is a wall-clock measurement, the machine belongs to the organizers, the reference implementation is theirs, and correctness is a gate rather than a matter of interpretation — a kernel that is faster because it has quietly become incorrect does not place, it fails.
The kernels are published.