Michael Lutz

Placing 5th in the GPU MODE QR Decomposition Competition: Optimization Techniques and Lessons Learned

A detailed technical blog post about placing 5th in the GPU MODE qr_v2 competition, which focused on optimizing QR decomposition on GPUs. The author walks through their iterative optimization journey across ~1,900 experiments, covering linear algebra fundamentals, CUDA kernel engineering, agent swarm automation, and various performance tricks. The piece comb