DICE: Diffusion Large Language Models Excel at Generating CUDA Kernels

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DICE: Diffusion Large Language Models Excel at Generating CUDA Kernels

Haolei Bai¹, Lingcheng Kong^1,2, Xueyi Chen¹, Jiamian Wang³, Zhiqiang Tao³, Huan Wang^1,†
1Westlake University, ²The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, ³Rochester Institute of Technology
^†Corresponding author: wanghuan@westlake.edu.cn

🗓️ Plan

• We will release our code soon. Stay tuned!
• 2026.02.13: We release DICE-1.7B, DICE-4B, and DICE-8B on Hugging Face !
• 2026.02.13: The paper is on arXiv !

🙌 Acknowledgement

We are grateful to the SDAR, TraceRL, KernelBench, cudaLLM for releasing their code publicly, which greatly facilitated our work.

📖 Citation

If you find DICE useful for your research or projects, please consider citing our work:

@article{bai2026dice,
  title={DICE: Diffusion Large Language Models Excel at Generating CUDA Kernels},
  author={Bai, Haolei and Kong, Lingcheng and Chen, Xueyi and Wang, Jiamian and Tao, Zhiqiang and Wang, Huan},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.11715},
  year={2026}
}