GraphFuse-R1: A Compiler-Side Bound and a Learned Graph-Level Policy for Operator Fusion
Published in Under review, 2026
Under review. GraphFuse-R1 trains an 8B LLM with SFT and GRPO to propose whole-graph operator-fusion groups inside PyTorch’s TorchInductor, compiling 28.5% fewer kernels and fusing 39% more nodes than the hand-written heuristic, and derives a compiler-side bound on how much fusion headroom remains.
