4 papers
Bandwidth, Latency, and 400 Million Kilometers: The Case for Mars-Local Compute
Maleeha Masood, Indranil Gupta, Deepak Vasisht
There have been recent proposals for human settlements on Mars in 2030s. Any human activity on Mars must be preceded by extensive robotic exploration. However, Mars exploration is…
Can You Check That? The Checkability Boundary for Local LLM Network Automation
Maleeha Masood, Momina Nofal
Sending every network-automation input to a third-party frontier LLM exports sensitive artifacts such as production configurations, topologies, and logs. Querying small language mo…
SILC: Lookahead Caching for Short-form Video Delivery Systems
Maleeha Masood, Shreya Kannan, Om Chabra +2
Short video platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts have gained immense popularity in the last few years and are responsible for a large and growing fraction of…
Counting How the Seconds Count: Understanding Algorithm-User Interplay in TikTok via ML-driven Analysis of Video Content
Maleeha Masood, Shreya Kannan, Zikun Liu +2
Short video streaming systems such as TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, etc., have reached billions of active users worldwide. At the core of such systems are (proprietary)…