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Automated debugging, long pursued in a variety of fields from software engineering to cybersecurity, requires a framework that offers the building blocks for a programmable debugging workflow. However, existing debuggers are primarily…

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Pipeline parallelism is a crucial paradigm for large-scale model training. However, imbalances in memory footprint across stages can lead to significant GPU memory wastage, limiting the model sizes that pipeline parallelism can effectively…

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Like other engineering disciplines, software engineering should also have principles to guide the construction of sustainable computer applications. Tangible properties include a) unlimited scalability, b) maximal reproducibility, and c)…

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The deployment of ML models on edge devices is challenged by limited computational resources and energy availability. While split computing enables the decomposition of large neural networks (NNs) and allows partial computation on both edge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Daniel May , Alessandro Tundo , Shashikant Ilager , Ivona Brandic

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) transform how machine learning (ML) pipelines are developed and evaluated. LLMs enable a new type of workload, agentic pipeline search, in which autonomous or semi-autonomous agents generate,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Arnab Phani , Elias Strauss , Sebastian Schelter

Improving the efficiency of edge detection in embedded applications, such as UAV control, is critical for reducing system cost and power dissipation. Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) are a good platform for making improvements because…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Jamie Schiel , Andrew Bainbridge-Smith

Pipeline parallelism has emerged as a predominant approach for deploying large language models (LLMs) across distributed nodes, owing to its lower communication overhead compared to tensor parallelism. While demonstrating high throughput in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Tianyu Guo , Xianwei Zhang , Jiangsu Du , Zhiguang Chen , Nong Xiao , Yutong Lu

Memory profiling captures programs' dynamic memory behavior, assisting programmers in debugging, tuning, and enabling advanced compiler optimizations like speculation-based automatic parallelization. As each use case demands its unique…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Ziyang Xu , Yebin Chon , Yian Su , Zujun Tan , Sotiris Apostolakis , Simone Campanoni , David I. August

Data-sharing pipelines involve a series of stages that apply policy-based data transformations to enable secure and effective data exchange among organizations. Although numerous tools and platforms exist to manage governance and…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Sepideh Masoudi , Sebastian Werner , Pierluigi Plebani , Stefan Tai

We present FlexiFlow, a lifetime-aware design framework for item-level intelligence (ILI) where computation is integrated directly into disposable products like food packaging and medical patches. Our framework leverages natively flexible…

Scientific visualization pipelines encode domain-specific procedural knowledge with strict execution dependencies, making their construction sensitive to missing stages, incorrect operator usage, or improper ordering. Thus, generating…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Guanghui Zhao , Zhe Wang , Yu Dong , Guan Li , GuiHua Shan

Programmable Logic Controllers are an integral component for managing many different industrial processes (e.g., smart building management, power generation, water and wastewater management, and traffic control systems), and manufacturing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Abdullah Al Farooq , Jessica Marquard , Kripa George , Thomas Moyer

Lazy search algorithms have been developed to efficiently solve planning problems in domains where the computational effort is dominated by the cost of edge evaluation. The existing algorithms operate by intelligently balancing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Shohin Mukherjee , Sandip Aine , Maxim Likhachev

Robustness is a crucial factor for the successful deployment of robots in unstructured environments, particularly in the domain of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Simulation-based benchmarks have emerged as a highly scalable…

Pipeline parallelism is one of the key components for large-scale distributed training, yet its efficiency suffers from pipeline bubbles which were deemed inevitable. In this work, we introduce a scheduling strategy that, to our knowledge,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Penghui Qi , Xinyi Wan , Guangxing Huang , Min Lin

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are the core control devices in Industrial Control Systems (ICSs), which control and monitor the underlying physical plants such as power grids. PLCs were initially designed to work in a trusted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Rongkuan Ma , Qiang Wei , Jingyi Wang , Shunkai Zhu , Shouling Ji , Peng Cheng , Yan Jia , Qingxian Wang

Large language model (LLM) merging has become a key technique in modern LLM development pipelines, enabling the integration of multiple task- or domain-specific expert models without retraining. However, as the number of experts grows,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuanyi Wang , Yanggan Gu , Zihao Wang , Kunxi Li , Yifan Yang , Zhaoyi Yan , Congkai Xie , Jianmin Wu , Hongxia Yang

Realizing large-scale quantum advantage is expected to require quantum error correction (QEC), making the compilation and optimization of logical operations a critical area of research. Logical computation imposes distinct constraints and…

Multi-party computing (MPC) has been gaining popularity as a secure computing model over the past few years. However, prior works have demonstrated that MPC protocols still pay substantial performance penalties compared to plaintext,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Yongqin Wang , Rachit Rajat , Murali Annavaram

Scaling up to a large number of qubits with high-precision control is essential in the demonstrations of quantum computational advantage to exponentially outpace the classical hardware and algorithmic improvements. Here, we develop a…