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As large language models from diverse providers converge toward comparable benchmark performance, the traditional paradigm of selecting a single best model per task yields diminishing returns. We argue that orchestration topology -- the…
Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) enables pre-trained models to adjust to distribution shift by learning from unlabeled test-time streams. However, existing methods typically treat these streams as independent samples, overlooking the supervisory…
In the emerging landscape of edge computing, the stochastic and bursty nature of serverless workloads presents a critical challenge for autonomous resource orchestration. Traditional reactive controllers, such as the Kubernetes Horizontal…
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As general purpose vision models get increasingly effective at a wide set of tasks, it is imperative that they be consistent across the tasks they support. Inconsistent AI models are considered brittle and untrustworthy by human users and…
Accurate understanding of users in terms of predicative segments play an essential role in the day to day operation of modern internet enterprises. Nevertheless, there are significant challenges that limit the quality of data, especially on…
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As Federated Learning (FL) expands to larger and more distributed environments, consistency in training is challenged by network-induced delays, clock unsynchronicity, and variability in client updates. This combination of factors may…
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As LLM-based AI agents are deployed in production systems, understanding their behavioral consistency (whether they produce similar action sequences when given identical tasks) becomes critical for reliability. We study consistency in the…
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Distributed systems address the increasing demand for fast access to resources and fault tolerance for data. However, due to scalability requirements, software developers need to trade consistency for performance. For certain data,…
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