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most citedEfficient Tabular Data Preprocessing of ML Pipelines

1 citations · 2 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.DC2026

Application-Driven Architecture Exploration for Cross-Layer Heterogeneous Systems

Yuchen Fan, Minghong Sun, Jikui Ma +19

AI and HPC infrastructure increasingly serves workload portfolios that combine dense tensor computation, sparse kernels, large memory footprints, and communication-intensive collec…

cs.AR2025

An RDMA-First Object Storage System with SmartNIC Offload

Yu Zhu, Aditya Dhakal, Pedro Bruel +4

AI training and inference impose sustained, fine-grain I/O that stresses host-mediated, TCP-based storage paths. Motivated by kernel-bypass networking and user-space storage stacks…

cs.AR2025★ 1 cited

RoCE BALBOA: Service-enhanced Data Center RDMA for SmartNICs

Maximilian Jakob Heer, Benjamin Ramhorst, Yu Zhu +4

Data-intensive applications in data centers, especially machine learning (ML), have made the network a bottleneck, which in turn has motivated the development of more efficient net…

cs.AR2025

Accelerating Recommender Model ETL with a Streaming FPGA-GPU Dataflow

Yu Zhu, Wenqi Jiang, Piyumi Jasin Pathiranage +2

The real-time performance of recommender models depends on the continuous integration of massive volumes of new user interaction data into training pipelines. While GPUs have scale…

cs.AR2024★ 1 cited

Efficient Tabular Data Preprocessing of ML Pipelines

Yu Zhu, Wenqi Jiang, Gustavo Alonso

Data preprocessing pipelines, which includes data decoding, cleaning, and transforming, are a crucial component of Machine Learning (ML) training. Thy are computationally intensive…

cs.DC2023

ACCL+: an FPGA-Based Collective Engine for Distributed Applications

Zhenhao He, Dario Korolija, Yu Zhu +5

FPGAs are increasingly prevalent in cloud deployments, serving as Smart NICs or network-attached accelerators. Despite their potential, developing distributed FPGA-accelerated appl…