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Diffusion LLMs (dLLMs) have recently emerged as a powerful alternative to autoregressive LLMs (AR-LLMs) with the potential to operate at significantly higher token generation rates. However, currently available open-source dLLMs often…

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Graphs are arguably one of the most fundamental data-structure used in many domains such as block-chain, networks etc. Theoretically and practically, improving Graph performance is one of the most studied and omnipresent research problems.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Gaurav Bhardwaj , Sathya Peri , Pratik Shetty

GPU-based concurrent data structures (CDSs) achieve high throughput for read-only queries, but efficient support for dynamic updates on fully GPU-resident data remains challenging. Ordered CDSs (e.g., B-trees and LSM-trees) maintain an…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Rosina Kharal , Trevor Brown , Justus Henneberg , Felix Schuhknecht

In this paper, we give theoretically and practically efficient implementations of Big Atomics, i.e., $k$-word linearizable registers that support the load, store, and compare-and-swap (CAS) operations. While modern hardware supports $k = 1$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Daniel Anderson , Guy E. Blelloch , Siddhartha Jayanti

Efficiently serving large language models (LLMs) requires batching of many requests to reduce the cost per request. Yet, with larger batch sizes and longer context lengths, the key-value (KV) cache, which stores attention keys and values to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Zirui Liu , Jiayi Yuan , Hongye Jin , Shaochen Zhong , Zhaozhuo Xu , Vladimir Braverman , Beidi Chen , Xia Hu

The emergence of learned indexes has caused a paradigm shift in our perception of indexing by considering indexes as predictive models that estimate keys' positions within a data set, resulting in notable improvements in key search…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Alireza Heidari , Amirhossein Ahmadi , Wei Zhang

Time-evolving stream datasets exist ubiquitously in many real-world applications where their inherent hot keys often evolve over times. Nevertheless, few existing solutions can provide efficient load balance on these time-evolving datasets…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Yu Huang

Large language models (LLMs) inference is both expensive and slow. Local caching of responses offers a practical solution to reduce the cost and latency of LLM queries. In research contexts, caching also enhances reproducibility and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yihan Dai , Dimitrios Stamatios Bouras , Haoxiang Jia , Sergey Mechtaev

In information retrieval, proprietary large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 and open-source counterparts such as LLaMA and Vicuna have played a vital role in reranking. However, the gap between open-source and closed models persists,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Ronak Pradeep , Sahel Sharifymoghaddam , Jimmy Lin

In-memory data management systems, such as key-value stores, have become an essential infrastructure in today's big-data processing and cloud computing. They rely on efficient index structures to access data. While unordered indexes, such…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Xingbo Wu , Fan Ni , Song Jiang

B$^+$-trees are prevalent in traditional database systems due to their versatility and balanced structure. While binary search is typically utilized for branch operations, it may lead to inefficient cache utilization in main-memory…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yuan Chen , Ao Li , Wenhai Li , Lingfeng Deng

Consistent range-hashing is a technique used in distributed systems, either directly or as a subroutine for consistent hashing, commonly to realize an even and stable data distribution over a variable number of resources. We introduce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Charles Masson , Homin K. Lee

Modern databases use dynamic search structures that store an enormous amount of data, and often serve them using multi-threaded algorithms to support the ever-increasing throughput needs. When this throughput need exceeds the capacity of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Raaghav Ravishankar , Sandeep Kulkarni , Sathya Peri , Gokarna Sharma

We take a relatively fresh wait-free, concurrent sorted map called KiWi, fix and enhance it. First, we test its linearizability by fuzzing and applying Wing&Gong [2] linearizability test. After fixing a few bugs in the algorithm design and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Assaf Yifrach , Niv Gabso

Contrary to common belief, a recent work by Ellen, Gelashvili, Shavit, and Zhu has shown that computability does not require multicore architectures to support "strong" synchronization instructions like compare-and-swap, as opposed to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Rati Gelashvili , Idit Keidar , Alexander Spiegelman , Roger Wattenhofer

We present a new non-blocking doubly-linked list implementation for an asynchronous shared-memory system. It is the first such implementation for which an upper bound on amortized time complexity has been proved. In our implementation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-11 Niloufar Shafiei

Linear-time algorithms that are traditionally used to shuffle data on CPUs, such as the method of Fisher-Yates, are not well suited to implementation on GPUs due to inherent sequential dependencies, and existing parallel shuffling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Rory Mitchell , Daniel Stokes , Eibe Frank , Geoffrey Holmes

We propose Fuzzy Jaccard Index (FUJI) -- a scale-invariant score for assessment of the similarity between two ranked/ordered lists. FUJI improves upon the Jaccard index by incorporating a membership function which takes into account the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Matej Petković , Blaž Škrlj , Dragi Kocev , Nikola Simidjievski

This paper proposes a new concurrent heap algorithm, based on a stateless shape property, which efficiently maintains balance during insert and removeMin operations implemented with hand-over-hand locking. It also provides a O(1)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Thomas D. Dickerson

The problem of answering rank/select queries over a bitmap is of utmost importance for many succinct data structures. When the bitmap does not change, many solutions exist in the theoretical and practical side. In this work we consider the…

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