FlashRT: Agent Harness for Guiding Agents to Deploy Real-Time Multimodal Applications

FlashRT addresses the problem of manually optimizing real-time multimodal application deployments across heterogeneous models and hardware. It introduces an agent harness that uses a chain-of-program paradigm to transform simple reference implementations into optimized multi-GPU deployments via iterative IR construction, validation, and measurement-gated optimization. On NVIDIA B200 GPUs, FlashRT achieves up to ~70x latency reduction and 2.8x throughput improvement, while on AMD MI355X GPUs it matches peak latency reduction and increases throughput improvement to 3.6x, outperforming expert implementations like vLLM-Omni by 65% in response latency. This matters because agent-driven optimization enables scalable, high-performance deployment across diverse hardware platforms without requiring hand-crafted expert tuning.