Towards Cold-Start Drafting and Continual Refining: A Value-Driven Memory Approach with Application to NPU Kernel Synthesis

Researchers introduce EvoKernel, a self-evolving AI framework that addresses the 'Data Wall' problem in deploying Large Language Models for kernel synthesis on data-scarce hardware platforms like NPUs. The system uses memory-based reinforcement learning to improve correctness from 11% to 83% and achieves 3.60x speedup through iterative refinement.