@article{nichols:tpds2026,
  author = {Nichols, Daniel and Polasam, Pranav and Menon, Harshitha and Marathe, Aniruddha and Gamblin, Todd and Bhatele, Abhinav},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Parallel \& Distributed Systems},
  title={Performance-Aligned {LLMs} for Generating Fast {HPC} Code},
  year={2026 (to appear)},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={},
  url = {},
  publisher={IEEE Computer Society},
  address={Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}