WARP SPECIALIZATION IN TRITON: DESIGN AND ROADMAP

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Warp specialization is a popular technique that improves kernel performance on GPUs out of the box. The key idea is to have specialized code paths for each warp instead of the same code. This reduces performance hits due to control flow divergence, improves latency hiding, and makes better use of hardware units on the GPU. This post outlines the current design of warp specialization in Triton, a compiler that aims to generate performance-portable code and runtime across hardware for AI kernels.