SeedKernelBench
Models write or optimize CUDA style kernels for operator tasks mined from FlashInfer, SGLang, FlashAttention, DeepGEMM, CUTLASS and cuDNN. Scored as average speedup over reference code.
In-house ByteDance Seed evaluation. The tasks are not public.
- Made by
- ByteDance Seed
- Released
- June 2026
- Kind
- GPU kernels
- Level
- Expert
- Scored
- Checked automatically
- Answers
- Code
- Tasks
- Kept private
- Last in a system card
- June 2026
- Last model added
- June 2026
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System card reports it, from 1 lab
No scores here yet
No lab, leaderboard or Epoch AI run has reported a score for SeedKernelBench yet.
Labs report it only in system cards
We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.
One system card reports it
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| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2026 |  Seed2.1 Pro model card | 9.21 | SeedKernelBench, average speedup 9.21x (Table 5) | AI R&D risk |
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