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Machine Learning has been successfully applied in systems applications such as memory prefetching and caching, where learned models have been shown to outperform heuristics. However, the lack of understanding the inner workings of these…

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Pre-trained models (PTMs) are becoming a common component in open-source software (OSS) development, yet their roles, maintenance practices, and lifecycle challenges remain underexplored. This report presents a plan for an exploratory study…