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    #476 this week

    A Quirky Assortment of CuTe Kernels

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    Python
    Apache-2.0
    1.2K stars
    164 forks
    1.2K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 16, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    Ranks #476 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 17%).

    4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 35 days ago, with 41 contributors on GitHub.

    Gained 9% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a collection of high-performance GPU kernels implemented in CuTe-DSL for deep learning operations.
    • Enables memory-bound kernel execution at near hardware speed directly from Python, leveraging NVIDIA H100 or B200 GPUs.
    • Use for accelerating RMSNorm, Softmax, and Cross Entropy computations in custom deep learning models on CUDA 12.9+ environments.
    • Use for integrating Hopper and Blackwell GEMM kernels with epilogues to optimize matrix multiplications in neural network training.
    • Use for developing and benchmarking memory-bound GPU kernels with a Python interface for rapid experimentation and performance tuning.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present

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    From the README

    Kernels are written in the CuTe-DSL.

    Excerpt from the Dao-AILab/quack README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    164+20

    Open issues

    52+20

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