Jie (Jimmy) has recently become my third PhD student to graduate with a dissertation titled "Toward Practical Application-Aware Big Data Systems." Over the course of his PhD, Jimmy ended up contributing to most of the major projects of our group over the years, and we will miss him going forward. He's joining … Continue Reading ››
Category Archives: Recent News
ModelKeeper and Zeus Accepted to Appear at NSDI’2023
Deep learning, and machine learning in general, is taking over the world. It is, however, quite expensive to tune, train, and serve deep learning models. Naturally, improving the efficiency and performance of deep learning workflows has received significant attention (Salus, Tiresias, and Fluid to … Continue Reading ››
Peifeng has Phinished. Congrats Dr. Yu!
Peifeng just became my second student to finish PhD a few days ago after successfully defending his dissertation "Application-Aware Scheduling in Deep Learning Software Stacks." This will be a big loss for the SymbioticLab as we will miss his presence and deep technical insights. Peifeng is joining Google to continue working on … Continue Reading ››
Promoted to Associate Professor With Tenure!
All credits to my students and collaborators who helped realize many groundbreaking ideas; hundreds of students I taught in undergraduate and graduate levels; my mentors who continue to advise me through good times and bad; everyone who wrote letters for me; countless reviewers and panelists who improved our papers and proposals; … Continue Reading ››
FedScale Accepted to Appear at ICML’2022
Although theoretical federated learning (FL) research is growing exponentially, we are far from putting those theories into practice. Over the course of last few years, SymbioticLab has made significant progress in building deployable FL systems, with Oort being the most prominent example. As I discussed in the past, while evaluating Oort, … Continue Reading ››
Apache Spark Receives the 2022 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award
Congratulations to the whole Spark community on the prestigious award and its 1800+ contributors and innumerable users. As I look back, memories from years ago continue to remind me how fortunate I was to be able to make small contributions at the infancy of this juggernaut.
Aequitas Accepted to Appear at SIGCOMM’2022
Although Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) generate bulk of the network traffic in modern disaggregated datacenters, network-level optimizations still focus on low-level metrics at the granularity of packets, flowlets, and flows. The lack of application-level semantics lead to suboptimal performance as there is often a mismatch between network- and application-level metrics. Indeed, my works … Continue Reading ››
Thanks Cisco for Sponsoring Our FL Research
Look forward to even more work in the context of federated learning and edge AI/ML building on top of FedScale.
Join SymbioticLab if you are excited about building practical federated learning and analytics systems that can be deployed in the wild!
Treehouse White Paper Released
We started the Treehouse project at the beginning of last summer with a mini workshop. It took a while to distill our core ideas, but we finally have a white paper that attempts to provide answers to some frequently asked questions: why now? what does it mean for cloud … Continue Reading ››
Hydra Accepted to Appear at FAST’2022
Almost five years after Infiniswap, memory disaggregation is now a mainstream research topic. It goes by many names, but the idea of accessing (unused/stranded) memory over high-speed networks is now close to reality. Despite many works in this line of research, a key remaining problem is ensuring resilience: how can … Continue Reading ››