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Iterative generative models such as Flow Matching and Diffusion models have demonstrated strong test-time scaling behavior, where additional inference computation can improve generation quality. In contrast, Drift Models offer efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chenrui Ma , Xi Xiao , Lin Zhao , Tianyang Wang , Ferdinando Fioretto , Yanning Shen

We introduce FatPaths: a simple, generic, and robust routing architecture that enables state-of-the-art low-diameter topologies such as Slim Fly to achieve unprecedented performance. FatPaths targets Ethernet stacks in both HPC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Maciej Besta , Marcel Schneider , Karolina Cynk , Marek Konieczny , Erik Henriksson , Salvatore Di Girolamo , Ankit Singla , Torsten Hoefler

Over the last two decades, scientific workflow management systems (SWfMS) have emerged as a means to facilitate the design, execution, and monitoring of reusable scientific data processing pipelines. At the same time, the amounts of data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-29 Marc Bux , Ulf Leser

Modern transportation network modeling increasingly involves the integration of diverse methodologies including sensor-based forecasting, reinforcement learning, classical flow optimization, and demand modeling that have traditionally been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Xuesong , Zhou , Taehooie Kim , Mostafa Ameli , Henan , Zhu , Yu- dai Honma , Ram M. Pendyala

Cooperative pathfinding is a multi-agent path planning problem where a group of vehicles searches for a corresponding set of non-conflicting space-time trajectories. Many of the practical methods for centralized solving of cooperative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-26 Michal Čáp , Peter Novák , Jiří Vokřínek , Michal Pěchouček

We consider two classes of stream-based computations which admit taking linear combinations of execution runs: probabilistic sampling and generalized animation. The dataflow architecture is a natural platform for programming with streams.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Michael Bukatin , Steve Matthews

Parallel trajectory optimization via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has emerged as a scalable approach to long-horizon motion planning. However, existing frameworks typically decompose the problem into parallel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Jiajun Yu , Guodong Liu , Li Wang , Pengxiang Zhou , Wentao Liu , Yin He , Chao Xu , Fei Gao , Yanjun Cao

This paper tries to reduce the effort of learning, deploying, and integrating several frameworks for the development of e-Science applications that combine simulations with High-Performance Data Analytics (HPDA). We propose a way to extend…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Cristian Ramon-Cortes , Francesc Lordan , Jorge Ejarque , Rosa M. Badia

The ubiquity of accelerators in high-performance computing has driven programming complexity beyond the skill-set of the average domain scientist. To maintain performance portability in the future, it is imperative to decouple…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Tal Ben-Nun , Johannes de Fine Licht , Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Timo Schneider , Torsten Hoefler

Network traffic analysis increasingly uses complex machine learning models as the internet consolidates and traffic gets more encrypted. However, over high-bandwidth networks, flows can easily arrive faster than model inference rates. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Shinan Liu , Ted Shaowang , Gerry Wan , Jeewon Chae , Jonatas Marques , Sanjay Krishnan , Nick Feamster

Safe swarm navigation in cluttered indoor environment requires long-horizon planning, reactive obstacle avoidance, and adaptive compliance. We propose ImpedanceDiffusion, a hierarchical framework that leverages image-conditioned…

It is a challenging task to train large DNN models on sophisticated GPU platforms with diversified interconnect capabilities. Recently, pipelined training has been proposed as an effective approach for improving device utilization. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Shiqing Fan , Yi Rong , Chen Meng , Zongyan Cao , Siyu Wang , Zhen Zheng , Chuan Wu , Guoping Long , Jun Yang , Lixue Xia , Lansong Diao , Xiaoyong Liu , Wei Lin

Modern machine learning frameworks can train neural networks using multiple nodes in parallel, each computing parameter updates with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and sharing them asynchronously through a central parameter server. Due…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Zhuojin Li , Wumo Yan , Marco Paolieri , Leana Golubchik

Real-time data processing applications with low latency requirements have led to the increasing popularity of stream processing systems. While such systems offer convenient APIs that can be used to achieve data parallelism automatically,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Konstantinos Kallas , Filip Niksic , Caleb Stanford , Rajeev Alur

In the evolving digital landscape, network flow models have transcended traditional applications to become integral in diverse sectors, including supply chain management. This research develops a robust network flow model for semiconductor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Yichen Wang , Huanbo Zhang , Chunhong Yuan , Xiangyu Li , Zuowen Jiang

This article proposes a new path planning method for addressing multi-level terrain situations. The proposed method includes innovations in three aspects: 1) the pre-processing of point cloud maps with a multi-level skip-list structure and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yujie Tang , Quan Li , Hao Geng , Yangmin Xie , Hang Shi , Yusheng Yang

Parallel computing is very important to accelerate the performance of software systems. Additionally, considering that a recurring challenge is to process high data volumes continuously, stream processing emerged as a paradigm and software…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Adriano Vogel , Sören Henning , Esteban Perez-Wohlfeil , Otmar Ertl , Rick Rabiser

The convergence of IoT, Edge, Cloud, and HPC technologies creates a compute continuum that merges cloud scalability and flexibility with HPC's computational power and specialized optimizations. However, integrating cloud and HPC resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Aasish Kumar Sharma , Christian Boehme , Patrick Gelß , Ramin Yahyapour , Julian Kunkel

One major technical challenge for modern analytical database systems is how to leverage GPU to exploit their massive parallelism and high bandwidth. Yet, existing GPU-driven database engines suffer from inefficiencies caused by frequent…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tsuyoshi Ozawa , Kazuo Goda

In the last two decades, the continuous increase of computational power has produced an overwhelming flow of data which has called for a paradigm shift in the computing architecture and large scale data processing mechanisms. MapReduce is a…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-02-14 Sherif Sakr , Anna Liu , Ayman G. Fayoumi