3 papers
cs.AR2026
Fletch: File-System Metadata Caching in Programmable Switches
Qingxiu Liu, Jiazhen Cai, Siyuan Sheng +4
Fast and scalable metadata management across multiple metadata servers is crucial for distributed file systems to handle numerous files and directories. Client-side caching of freq…
cs.CL2026
Trivial Vocabulary Bans Improve LLM Reasoning More Than Deep Linguistic Constraints
Rodney Jehu-Appiah
A previous study reported that E-Prime (English without the verb "to be") selectively altered reasoning in language models, with cross-model correlations suggesting a structural si…
cs.PF2026
Characterize LSM-tree Compaction Performance via On-Device LLM Inference
Jiabiao Ding, Yina Lv, Qiao Li +2
Modern key-value storage engines built on Log-Structured Merge-trees (LSM-trees), such as RocksDB and LevelDB, rely heavily on the performance of their compaction operations, which…