diff --git a/include/ck_tile/host/reference/reference_softmax.hpp b/include/ck_tile/host/reference/reference_softmax.hpp
index d86e879944..4e729c437d 100644
--- a/include/ck_tile/host/reference/reference_softmax.hpp
+++ b/include/ck_tile/host/reference/reference_softmax.hpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
-// Copyright (c) 2024, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Copyright (c) 2025, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
 
 #pragma once
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ CK_TILE_HOST void
 reference_softmax(const HostTensor<InputType>& x, HostTensor<OutputType>& y, index_t dim = -1)
 {
     index_t rank = x.get_num_of_dimension();
-    assert(rank == y.get_num_of_dimension());
+    assert(static_cast<std::size_t>(rank) == y.get_num_of_dimension());
     assert(dim == -1 || dim < rank);
 
     index_t target_dim  = dim == -1 ? (rank - 1) : dim;
diff --git a/include/ck_tile/host/reference/reference_topk.hpp b/include/ck_tile/host/reference/reference_topk.hpp
index 3d0404a2e5..0fc99a983a 100644
--- a/include/ck_tile/host/reference/reference_topk.hpp
+++ b/include/ck_tile/host/reference/reference_topk.hpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
-// Copyright (c) 2024, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Copyright (c) 2025, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
 
 #pragma once
 
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ CK_TILE_HOST void reference_topk(const HostTensor<DataType>& x,
 {
     // rank must be the same
     index_t rank = x.get_num_of_dimension();
-    assert(rank == y_values.get_num_of_dimension());
-    assert(rank == y_indices.get_num_of_dimension());
+    assert(static_cast<std::size_t>(rank) == y_values.get_num_of_dimension());
+    assert(static_cast<size_t>(rank) == y_indices.get_num_of_dimension());
     assert(dim == -1 || dim < rank);
 
     index_t topk_dim     = dim == -1 ? (rank - 1) : dim;
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ CK_TILE_HOST void reference_topk(const HostTensor<DataType>& x,
     auto x_len           = x.get_lengths();
 
     assert(k <= topk_src_len);
-    assert(k == y_values.get_length(topk_dim) && k == y_indices.get_length(topk_dim));
+    assert(static_cast<size_t>(k) == y_values.get_length(topk_dim) &&
+           static_cast<size_t>(k) == y_indices.get_length(topk_dim));
 
     index_t n_parallel = x.get_element_size() / topk_src_len;
 
diff --git a/library/src/tensor_operation_instance/gpu/CMakeLists.txt b/library/src/tensor_operation_instance/gpu/CMakeLists.txt
index 5204b51edf..1eaaa7e6ba 100644
--- a/library/src/tensor_operation_instance/gpu/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/library/src/tensor_operation_instance/gpu/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ function(add_instance_library INSTANCE_NAME)
 
         target_compile_features(${INSTANCE_NAME} PUBLIC)
 
+        # splits debug information into separate .dwo files to reduce debug section size
+        if(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL "Debug" OR CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL "RelWithDebInfo")
+            target_compile_options(${INSTANCE_NAME} PRIVATE -gsplit-dwarf)
+        endif()
         # flags to compress the library
         if(NOT DISABLE_OFFLOAD_COMPRESS AND NOT WIN32 AND ${hip_VERSION_FLAT} GREATER 600241132)
             message(DEBUG "Adding --offload-compress flag for ${INSTANCE_NAME}")