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 Our framework, **Ascend KernelGen (AKGen)**, bridges the gap between general-purpose code generation and hardware-specific programming through a closed-loop system of data construction, training, and evaluation. Key innovations include:
 
-* [cite_start]**Ascend-CoT Dataset:** A high-quality, domain-specific dataset incorporating **Chain-of-Thought (CoT)** reasoning. It combines documentation-based reasoning, code-centric reasoning derived from real-world kernel implementations, and general reasoning chains to capture the structured logic required for low-level NPU programming.
-* [cite_start]**Domain-Adaptive Post-Training:** A two-stage optimization process. We first employ **Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)** with error-derived supervision (correcting API misuse and numerical errors). This is followed by **Reinforcement Learning (RL)** using Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), driven by execution-based correctness and performance signals.
-* [cite_start]**Hardware-Grounded Evaluation:** Validated using **NPUKernelBench**, a comprehensive benchmark that assesses compilation success, functional correctness, and performance (latency) on real Ascend hardware across varying complexity levels.
-* [cite_start]**Performance:** The model demonstrates siginificant improvement on complex Level-2 kernels compared to baselines, and effectively solving tasks where general-purpose models (like Qwen3, Llama3.1) fail completely.
+* **Ascend-CoT Dataset:** A high-quality, domain-specific dataset incorporating **Chain-of-Thought (CoT)** reasoning. It combines documentation-based reasoning, code-centric reasoning derived from real-world kernel implementations, and general reasoning chains to capture the structured logic required for low-level NPU programming.
+* **Domain-Adaptive Post-Training:** A two-stage optimization process. We first employ **Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)** with error-derived supervision (correcting API misuse and numerical errors). This is followed by **Reinforcement Learning (RL)** using Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), driven by execution-based correctness and performance signals.
+* **Hardware-Grounded Evaluation:** Validated using **NPUKernelBench**, a comprehensive benchmark that assesses compilation success, functional correctness, and performance (latency) on real Ascend hardware across varying complexity levels.
+* **Performance:** The model demonstrates siginificant improvement on complex Level-2 kernels compared to baselines, and effectively solving tasks where general-purpose models (like Qwen3, Llama3.1) fail completely.
 
 ## Citation
 @article{cao2026ascendkernelgen,