[2604.13327] Event Tensor: A Unified Abstraction for Compiling Dynamic Megakernel

Computer Science > Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing arXiv:2604.13327 (cs) [Submitted on 14 Apr 2026] Title:Event Tensor: A Unified Abstraction for Compiling Dynamic Megakernel Authors:Hongyi Jin, Bohan Hou, Guanjie Wang, Ruihang Lai, Jinqi Chen, Zihao Ye, Yaxing Cai, Yixin Dong, Xinhao Cheng, Zhihao Zhang, Yilong Zhao, Yingyi Huang, Lijie Yang, Jinchen Jiang, Gabriele Oliaro, Jianan Ji, Xupeng Miao, Vinod Grover, Todd C. Mowry, Zhihao Jia, Tianqi Chen View a PDF of the paper titled Event Tensor: A Unified Abstraction for Compiling Dynamic Megakernel, by Hongyi Jin and 20 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Modern GPU workloads, especially large language model (LLM) inference, suffer from kernel launch overheads and coarse synchronization that limit inter-kernel parallelism. Recent megakernel techniques fuse multiple operators into a single persistent kernel to eliminate launch gaps and expose inter-kernel parallelism, but struggle to handle dynamic shapes and data-dependent computation in real workloads. We present Event Tensor, a unified compiler abstraction for dynamic megakernels. Event Tensor encodes dependencies between tiled tasks, and enables first-class support for both shape and data-dependent dynamism. Built atop this abstraction, our Event Tensor Compiler (ETC) applies static and dynamic scheduling transformations to generate high-performance persistent kernels. Evaluations show that ETC achieves state-of-the-art LLM serving latency w...