Daniel Nichols

According to our database, Daniel Nichols authored at least 29 papers between 2018 and 2026.

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2026

Performance-Aligned LLMs for Generating Fast HPC Code.

Daniel Nichols, Pranav Polasam, Harshitha Menon, Aniruddha Marathe, Todd Gamblin, Abhinav Bhatele

IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst., June, 2026

LongCoT: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Chain-of-Thought Reasoning.

Sumeet Ramesh Motwani, Daniel Nichols, Charles London, Peggy Li, Fabio Pizzati, Acer Blake, Hasan Hammoud, Tavish McDonald, Akshat Naik, Alesia Ivanova, Vignesh Baskaran, Ivan Laptev, Ruben Glatt, Tal Ben-Nun, Philip Torr, Natasha Jaques, Ameya Prabhu, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura, Christian Schroeder de Witt

CoRR, April, 2026

Record-Remix-Replay: Hierarchical GPU Kernel Optimization using Evolutionary Search.

Daniel Nichols, Konstantinos Parasyris, Caetano Melone, Tal Ben-Nun, Giorgis Georgakoudis, Harshitha Menon

CoRR, April, 2026

Communication-free Sampling and 4D Hybrid Parallelism for Scalable Mini-batch GNN Training.

Cunyang Wei, Siddharth Singh, Aishwarya Sarkar, Daniel Nichols, Tisha Patel, Aditya K. Ranjan, Sayan Ghosh, Ali Jannesari, Nathan R. Tallent, Abhinav Bhatele

CoRR, April, 2026

2025

Optimizing Agentic Language Model Inference via Speculative Tool Calls.

Daniel Nichols, Prajwal Singhania, Charles F. Jekel, Abhinav Bhatele, Harshitha Menon

CoRR, December, 2025

LLMs as Packagers of HPC Software.

Caetano Melone, Daniel Nichols, Konstantinos Parasyris, Todd Gamblin, Harshitha Menon

CoRR, November, 2025

Integrating Performance Tools in Model Reasoning for GPU Kernel Optimization.

Daniel Nichols, Konstantinos Parasyris, Charles F. Jekel, Abhinav Bhatele, Harshitha Menon

CoRR, October, 2025

Modeling Code: Is Text All You Need?

Daniel Nichols, Konstantinos Parasyris, Harshitha Menon, Brian R. Bartoldson, Giorgis Georgakoudis, Tal Ben-Nun, Abhinav Bhatele

CoRR, July, 2025

Leveraging AI for Productive and Trustworthy HPC Software: Challenges and Research Directions.

Keita Teranishi, Harshitha Menon, William F. Godoy, Prasanna Balaprakash, David Bau, Tal Ben-Nun, Abhinav Bhatele, Franz Franchetti, Michael E. Franusich, Todd Gamblin, Giorgis Georgakoudis, Tom Goldstein, Arjun Guha, Steven E. Hahn, Costin Iancu, Zheming Jin, Terry R. Jones, Tze Meng Low, Het Mankad, Narasinga Rao Miniskar, Mohammad Alaul Haque Monil, Daniel Nichols, Konstantinos Parasyris, Swaroop Pophale, Pedro Valero-Lara, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Samuel Williams, Aaron R. Young

Proceedings of the High Performance Computing, 2025

HPC-Coder-v2: Studying Code LLMs Across Low-Resource Parallel Languages.

Aman Chaturvedi, Daniel Nichols, Siddharth Singh, Abhinav Bhatele

Proceedings of the ISC High Performance 2025 Research Paper Proceedings (40th International Conference), 2025

The Shortcomings of Code LLMs in Modeling Code Properties.

Srivishnu Pyda, Daniel Nichols, Abhinav Bhatele

Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Large Language Models for Code, 2025

ParEval-Repo: A Benchmark Suite for Evaluating LLMs with Repository-level HPC Translation Tasks.

Joshua Hoke Davis, Daniel Nichols, Ishan Khillan, Abhinav Bhatele

Proceedings of the 54th International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2025

2024

Performance-Aligned LLMs for Generating Fast Code.

Daniel Nichols, Pranav Polasam, Harshitha Menon, Aniruddha Marathe, Todd Gamblin, Abhinav Bhatele

CoRR, 2024

Automated Programmatic Performance Analysis of Parallel Programs.

Onur Cankur, Aditya Tomar, Daniel Nichols, Connor Scully-Allison, Katherine E. Isaacs, Abhinav Bhatele

CoRR, 2024

HPC-Coder: Modeling Parallel Programs using Large Language Models.

Daniel Nichols, Aniruddha Marathe, Harshitha Menon, Todd Gamblin, Abhinav Bhatele

Proceedings of the ISC High Performance 2024 Research Paper Proceedings (39th International Conference), 2024

A Probabilistic Approach To Selecting Build Configurations in Package Managers.

Daniel Nichols, Harshitha Menon, Todd Gamblin, Abhinav Bhatele

Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, 2024

Learning to Predict and Improve Build Successes in Package Ecosystems.

Harshitha Menon, Daniel Nichols, Abhinav Bhatele, Todd Gamblin

Proceedings of the 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2024

Predicting Cross-Architecture Performance of Parallel Programs.

Daniel Nichols, Alexander Movsesyan, Jae-Seung Yeom, Abhik Sarkar, Daniel Milroy, Tapasya Patki, Abhinav Bhatele

Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2024

Can Large Language Models Write Parallel Code?

Daniel Nichols, Joshua Hoke Davis, Zhaojun Xie, Arjun Rajaram, Abhinav Bhatele

Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2024

Relative Performance Prediction Using Few-Shot Learning.

Arunavo Dey, Aakash Dhakal, Tanzima Z. Islam, Jae-Seung Yeom, Tapasya Patki, Daniel Nichols, Alexander Movsesyan, Abhinav Bhatele

Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, 2024

2023

Modeling Parallel Programs using Large Language Models.

Daniel Nichols, Aniruddha Marathe, Harshitha Menon, Todd Gamblin, Abhinav Bhatele

CoRR, 2023

Porting a Computational Fluid Dynamics Code with AMR to Large-scale GPU Platforms.

Joshua Hoke Davis, Justin Shafner, Daniel Nichols, Nathan Grube, Pino Martin, Abhinav Bhatele

Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2023

2022

Resource Utilization Aware Job Scheduling to Mitigate Performance Variability.

Daniel Nichols, Aniruddha Marathe, Kathleen Shoga, Todd Gamblin, Abhinav Bhatele

Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2022

2021

How to Train Your Neural Network: A Comparative Evaluation.

Shu-Huai Lin, Daniel Nichols, Siddharth Singh, Abhinav Bhatele

CoRR, 2021

2020

Integrating Deep Learning in Domain Sciences at Exascale.

Rick Archibald, Edmond Chow, Eduardo F. D'Azevedo, Jack J. Dongarra, Markus Eisenbach, Rocco Febbo, Florent Lopez, Daniel Nichols, Stanimire Tomov, Kwai Wong, Junqi Yin

Proceedings of the Driving Scientific and Engineering Discoveries Through the Convergence of HPC, Big Data and AI, 2020

2019

MagmaDNN: Accelerated Deep Learning Using MAGMA.

Daniel Nichols, Kwai Wong, Stanimire Tomov, Lucien Ng, Sihan Chen, Alex Gessinger

Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing on Rise of the Machines (learning), 2019

openDIEL: A Parallel Workflow Engine and Data Analytics Framework.

Frank Betancourt, Kwai Wong, Efosa Asemota, Quindell Marshall, Daniel Nichols, Stanimire Tomov

Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing on Rise of the Machines (learning), 2019

MagmaDNN: Towards High-Performance Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Data-Driven Scientific Computing.

Daniel Nichols, Nathalie-Sofia Tomov, Frank Betancourt, Stanimire Tomov, Kwai Wong, Jack J. Dongarra

Proceedings of the High Performance Computing, 2019

2018

Analogues of the 3 x + 1 Problem in Polynomial Rings of Characteristic 2.

Daniel Nichols

Exp. Math., 2018