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The study introduces Gauntlet, an open-source pipeline using five independent expert-persona reviewers plus an adversarial synthesis stage. Across 20 ISCA 2025 and HPCA 2026 papers, evaluators preferred Gauntlet in 15 comparisons, with significant gains on per-analyst totals (p \u003C 0.01) and on Critical Rigor, supported by a 98-paper ablation.","Can LLMs Perform Deep Technical Comprehension of Computer Architecture Papers?  \nNishant Aggarwal, Ayushi Dubal, Sreeraj Kannakarankodi, Ian McDougall, Adarsh Mittal, Vishnu Ramadas, Noah Scott, Ranganath Selagamsetty, Weichu Yang, and Karthikeyan Sankaralingam  \narXiv :2607 . 11859v1 [ cs .CY] 13 Jul 2026  \nAbstract—Can large language models perform deep technical comprehension of computer architecture papers—not summarization, but structured critique that names the core mechanism, surfaces buried assumptions, and connects a contribution beyond its own scope? We study Gauntlet, an open-source pipeline that analyzes a paper through five independent expert-persona reviewers and an adversarial synthesis stage. On 20 ISCA 2025 and HPCA 2026 papers, ten researchers each wrote their own analyses and then judged, for papers other than their own, the human analysis against Gauntlet’s. Across the 20 comparisons evaluators preferred Gauntlet in 15 (human in 4, one tie); its advantage is significant on per-analyst totals (paired Wilcoxon, p \u003C 0.01) and largest on Critical Rigor, vanishing only on Calibration. Where humans win, it is on trust and usefulness rather than depth: a confident wrong claim, a mechanism described but not taught, or unprioritized breadth. A 98-paper automated ablation shows the gain comes from the multi-agent structure—the pipeline beats the same model run as a single rich-persona agent on 96% of papers—and specifically from its synthesis pass. We release all analyses, scores, and the rubric asa community resource.  \nIndex Terms—Large language models, scientific paper comprehension, multi-agent systems, evaluation methodology.  \nI. INTRODUCTION  \nKeeping pace with the computer architecture literature is increasingly hard. ISCA, MICRO, and HPCA 2025 alone added more than a hundred papers across near-memory processing, accelerators, coherence, security, and ML compilation. Authors often compare against favorable baselines and leave key assumptions implicit, so a paper’s real contribution can be hard to extract. Readers have little help beyond summarization, which condenses a paper without teaching it. Understanding a paper well enough to critique, build on, or teach it requires naming four things: the precise structures it builds, the nonobvious insight that makes the mechanism work, the evaluation assumptions, and the connections to related work. We call this deep technical comprehension and ask: can large language models perform it, at a level comparable to trained human researchers?  \nApproach. Simply asking a frontier model to “deeply comprehend this paper” does not get you there. A singleshot analysis reads well but misses the mechanism, as our ablation shows (Section V-B) . Two ideas close the gap, and they are the core of this paper. First, several expert perspectives read a paper better than one; each catches concerns the others miss. Second, those perspectives are formed independently and then combined by a synthesis step that preserves their  \nUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison and NVIDIA Research.  \ndisagreements rather than averaging them away. We implement both in our tool Gauntlet as multi-perspective independent review followed by adversarial synthesis. Five reviewer agents analyze the paper independently (a microarchitecture specialist, a workload and evaluation analyst, a simulation-tools auditor, and two domain specialists matched to the paper’s sub-topics from a ∼90-persona library), and a synthesizer then integrates them (Section III) . All analyses use Claude Opus 4.5.  \nFindings. Ten graduate-student researchers each analyzed two papers. Each then judged, on papers other than their own, the human analysis against Gauntlet’s across five dimensions. Across 20 comparisons, evaluators preferred Gauntlet in 15 (human in 4, one tie) . The advantage is significant on peranalyst totals (p \u003C 0.01, paired Wilcoxon), largest on Critical Rigor, and vanishes only on Calibration. 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