CANNBot-CAKE: Collaborative Agentic Kernel Evolution for Ascend NPU

No. 58 of 245 · arXiv · Deng Pan, Xue-Jian Gao, Junyi Fan et al. · published 23 Oct 2026, 04:00 UTC · 44 min read

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CAKE is an agent system that generates and iteratively optimizes custom AscendC kernels for Huawei's Ascend NPUs, using multiple DSLs and reusable reviewed knowledge. On 53 benchmark operators it passed 100% of standard cases, 98.28% of hidden ones, and averaged 1.334x speedup, suggesting automation could ease Ascend's kernel-development bottleneck.

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0.68total under rubric v2.0

Significance0.66
Reader interest0.77
Audience breadth0.36
Practical relevance0.70
Substantiated0.87
Technical depth0.96
New information0.95
Counts against: Promotional0.13
Counts against: Overclaim0.29

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

Question	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3	Mean	Spread	Weight	Contribution (weight times mean)
Significance	0.56	—	0.76	0.66	0.20	+0.25	+0.166
Reader interest	0.65	—	0.88	0.77	0.23	+0.20	+0.153
Audience breadth	0.25	—	0.48	0.36	0.23	+0.10	+0.036
Practical relevance	0.62	—	0.78	0.70	0.16	+0.15	+0.105
Substantiated	0.95	—	0.80	0.87	0.15	+0.10	+0.087
Technical depth	0.98	—	0.94	0.96	0.04	+0.10	+0.096
New information	0.91	—	1.00	0.95	0.09	+0.10	+0.096
Promotional	0.08	—	0.18	0.13	0.10	−0.15	−0.019
Overclaim	0.31	—	0.28	0.29	0.03	−0.15	−0.044
Sum of contributions							+0.675
Claim-check penalty							0.000
Total, as published							0.675

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