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most citedVQPy: An Object-Oriented Approach to Modern Video Analytics

2 citations · 5 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.NI2026

Lizard: Bandwidth-Adaptive Real-Time Video Analytics through Content-Aware Packet Discarding at Last-Mile Edge Routers

Shan Yu, Yu Chen, Yifan Qiao +3

The timeliness and accuracy of edge-based video analytics can be hindered by drastic reductions in available bandwidth (ABW) at last-mile edge routers, causing prolonged queuing de…

cs.LG2026

Demystifying Numerical Instability in LLM Inference: Achieving Reproducible Inference for Mission-Critical Tasks with HEAL

Zhenting Zhu, Lucas Thai, Shan Yu +5

As Large Language Models (LLMs) deploy into mission-critical domains (e.g., finance, medicine, and law), output reproducibility has become a strict system requirement. While practi…

cs.MA2026

Pythia: Exploiting Workflow Predictability for Efficient Agent-Native LLM Serving

Shan Yu, Junyi Shu, Yuanjiang Ni +14

As LLM applications grow more complex, developers are increasingly adopting multi-agent architectures to decompose workflows into specialized, collaborative components, introducing…

cs.DC2025

Prism: Cost-Efficient Multi-LLM Serving via GPU Memory Ballooning

Shan Yu, Yifan Qiao, Mingyuan Ma +18

Inference providers must maintain availability for many LLMs, including low-volume but essential models, making resource efficiency increasingly important as token prices fall. Ana…

cs.DC2024★ 1 cited

ConServe: Fine-Grained GPU Harvesting for LLM Online and Offline Co-Serving

Yifan Qiao, Shu Anzai, Shan Yu +10

Large language model (LLM) serving demands low latency and high throughput, but high load variability makes it challenging to achieve high GPU utilization. In this paper, we identi…

cs.DC2024

DRust: Language-Guided Distributed Shared Memory with Fine Granularity, Full Transparency, and Ultra Efficiency

Haoran Ma, Yifan Qiao, Shi Liu +7

Despite being a powerful concept, distributed shared memory (DSM) has not been made practical due to the extensive synchronization needed between servers to implement memory cohere…

cs.DC2024

A Tale of Two Paths: Toward a Hybrid Data Plane for Efficient Far-Memory Applications

Lei Chen, Shi Liu, Chenxi Wang +9

With rapid advances in network hardware, far memory has gained a great deal of traction due to its ability to break the memory capacity wall. Existing far memory systems fall into…

cs.DC2024★ 1 cited

Parcae: Proactive, Liveput-Optimized DNN Training on Preemptible Instances

Jiangfei Duan, Ziang Song, Xupeng Miao +5

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are becoming progressively large and costly to train. This paper aims to reduce DNN training costs by leveraging preemptible instances on modern clouds,…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

VQPy: An Object-Oriented Approach to Modern Video Analytics

Shan Yu, Zhenting Zhu, Yu Chen +6

Video analytics is widely used in contemporary systems and services. At the forefront of video analytics are video queries that users develop to find objects of particular interest…

cs.DC2022★ 1 cited

Zenix: Efficient Execution of Bulky Serverless Applications

Zhiyuan Guo, Zachary Blanco, Junda Chen +7

Serverless computing, commonly offered as Function-as-a-Service, was initially designed for small, lean applications. However, there has been an increasing desire to run larger, mo…

cs.CR2020

Securing Smart Home Edge Devices against Compromised Cloud Servers

Rahmadi Trimananda, Ali Younis, Thomas Kwa +2

Smart home IoT systems often rely on cloud-based servers for communication between components. Although there exists a body of work on IoT security, most of it focuses on securing…