Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel over baseline with Codex in GPU Mode's qr_v2 problem
08 Jul, 2026
Table of Contents
Intro
Contest in short
Problem intro
Why this problem is auto-research-able
Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions
(Optional) Math for QR decomposition: Householder reflections
Make serial work small with the help of the blocked Householder algorithm
Other challenges
Codex-maxxing
Kernel progress breakthroughs
Breakthrough ideas
Introducing idea diversity to escape the local maxima
Implementation Hints
What I could have done better
Conclusion
References
Acknowledg...
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