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NVIDIA unveils cuDNN Graph API for optimized AI computation graphs

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NVIDIA has introduced the cuDNN Graph API, a new feature within its cuDNN Frontend that allows developers to define computations as graphs of operations. This API enables cuDNN to automatically select and optimize execution engines for these graphs, incorporating techniques like fusion, autotuning, and plan reuse. The tutorial demonstrates how to use this API by building and executing fused convolutions, exploring autotuning across different configurations, and integrating features like FP8 support and CUDA graph capture, with results validated against PyTorch. AI

IMPACT Enhances AI computation efficiency by allowing developers to define and optimize complex operation graphs within NVIDIA's cuDNN library.

RANK_REASON The item describes a new API and its usage within a specific software library (cuDNN), which falls under tooling rather than a core frontier release or significant industry event.

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NVIDIA unveils cuDNN Graph API for optimized AI computation graphs

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  1. MarkTechPost TIER_1 English(EN) · Sana Hassan ·

    Inside NVIDIA’s cuDNN Graph API: Fusion, Autotuning, and Plan Reuse with cuDNN Frontend

    <p>Learn how to leverage NVIDIA’s cuDNN Frontend Graph API to build custom kernel fusions, autotuning engine configurations, FP8-style epilogues, scaled dot-product attention, dynamic shapes, and CUDA graph captures. This practical tutorial demonstrates how to optimize deep learn…

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