Yiying Zhang


Publication


Conferences and Preprints

Cognify: Supercharging Gen-AI Workflows With Hierarchical Autotuning
Zijian He*, Reyna Abhyankar*, Vikranth Srivatsa, Yiying Zhang (* equal contribution)
arxiv preprint arXiv:2502.08056

Preble: Efficient Distributed Prompt Scheduling for LLM Serving
Vikranth Srivatsa*, Zijian He*, Reyna Abhyankar, Dongming Li, Yiying Zhang (* equal contribution)
to appear at the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR '25)

Portable and High-Performance SmartNIC Programs with Alkali
Jiaxin Lin*, Zhiyuan Guo*, Mihir Shah, Tao Ji, Yiying Zhang, Daehyeok Kim, Aditya Akella (* equal contribution)
to appear at the Proceedings of the 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '25)

InferCept: Efficient Intercept Support for Augmented Large Language Model Inference
Reyna Abhyankar*, Zijian He*, Vikranth Srivatsa, Hao Zhang, Yiying Zhang (* equal contribution)
Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML '24)

DRust: Language-Guided Distributed Shared Memory with Fine Granularity, Full Transparency, and Ultra Efficiency
Haoran Ma, Yifan Qiao, Shi Liu, Shan Yu, Yuanjiang Ni, Qingda Lu, Jiesheng Wu, Yiying Zhang, Miryung Kim, Harry Xu
to appear at the 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '24)

Zenix: Efficient Execution of Bulky Serverless Applications
Zhiyuan Guo, Zachary Blanco, Junda Chen, Jinmou Li, Zerui Wei, Bili Dong, Ishaan Pota, Mohammad Shahrad, Harry Xu, Yiying Zhang
arxiv preprint arXiv:2206.13444

AuditGPT: Auditing Smart Contracts with ChatGPT
Shihao Xia, Shuai Shao, Mengting He, Tingting Yu, Linhai Song, Yiying Zhang
arxiv preprint arXiv:2404.04306

How to Save My Gas Fees: Understanding and Detecting Real-world Gas Issues in Solidity Programs
Mengting He, Shihao Xia, Boqin Qin, Nobuko Yoshida, Tingting Yu, Linhai Song, Yiying Zhang
arxiv preprint arXiv:403.02661

SuperNIC: An FPGA-Based, Cloud-Oriented SmartNIC
Will Lin*, Yizhou Shan*, Ryan Kosta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Yiying Zhang (* equal contribution)
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA '24) (Best Paper Runner-Up)

Mira: A Program-Behavior-Guided Far Memory System
Zhiyuan Guo, Zijian He, Yiying Zhang
Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '23)

Hermit: Low-Latency, High-Throughput, and Transparent Remote Memory via Feedback-Directed Asynchrony
Yifan Qiao, Chenxi Wang, Zhenyuan Ruan, Adam Belay, Qingda Lu, Yiying Zhang, Miryung Kim, Harry Xu
Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '23)

Canvas: Isolated and Adaptive Swapping for Multi-Applications on Remote Memory
Chenxi Wang, Yifan Qiao, Haoran Ma, Shi Liu, Yiying Zhang, Wenguang Chen, Ravi Netravali, Miryung Kim, Harry Xu
Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '23)

Clio: A Hardware-Software Co-Designed Disaggregated Memory System
Zhiyuan Guo*, Yizhou Shan*, Xuhao Luo, Yutong Huang, Yiying Zhang (* equal contribution)
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '22)

Disaggregating Persistent Memory and Controlling Them Remotely: An Exploration of Passive Disaggregated Key-Value Stores
Shin-Yeh Tsai, Yizhou Shan, Yiying Zhang
Proceedings of the 2020 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC '20)

Understanding Memory and Thread Safety Practices and Issues in Real-World Rust Programs
Boqin Qin*, Yilun Chen*, Zeming Yu, Linhai Song, Yiying Zhang (* equal contribution)
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation 2020 (PLDI '20)

Pythia: Remote Oracles for the Masses
Shin-Yeh Tsai, Mathias Payer, Yiying Zhang
Proceedings of the 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX SEC '19)

Storm: A Fast Transactional Dataplane for Remote Data Structures
Stanko Novakovic, Yizhou Shan, Aasheesh Kolli, Michael Cui, Yiying Zhang, Haggai Eran, Liran Liss, Michael Wei, Dan Tsafrir, Marcos Aguilera
Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR '19 ) (Best Paper Award)

Understanding Real-World Concurrency Bugs in Go
Tengfei Tu*, Xiaoyu Liu*, Linhai Song, Yiying Zhang (* equal contribution)
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '19)
(the second-most visited URL related to Golang in 2019)

LegoOS: A Disseminated, Distributed OS for Hardware Resource Disaggregation
Yizhou Shan, Yutong Huang, Yilun Chen, Yiying Zhang
Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '18) (Best Paper Award)

LITE Kernel RDMA Support for Datacenter Applications
Shin-Yeh Tsai, Yiying Zhang
Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '17)

Distributed Shared Persistent Memory
Yizhou Shan, Shin-Yeh Tsai, Yiying Zhang
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2017 (SoCC '17)

Mojim: A Reliable and Highly-Available Non-Volatile Memory System
Yiying Zhang, Jian Yang, Amirsaman Memaripour, Steven Swanson
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '15)

A Study of Application Performance with Non-Volatile Main Memory
Yiying Zhang, Steven Swanson
Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Conference on Massive Data Storage (MSST '15)

Removing the Costs and Retaining the Benefits of Flash-Based SSD Virtualization with FSDV
Yiying Zhang, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Conference on Massive Data Storage (MSST '15)

Warped Mirrors for Flash
Yiying Zhang, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Conference on Massive Data Storage (MSST '13)

Warming up Storage-Level Caches with Bonfire
Yiying Zhang, Gokul Soundararajan, Mark W. Storer, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Sethuraman Subbiah, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 11th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '13)

Getting Real: Lessons in Transitioning Research Simulations into Hardware Systems
Mohit Saxena, Yiying Zhang, Michael M. Swift, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 11th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '13)

FlashTier: a Lightweight, Consistent and Durable Storage Cache
Mohit Saxena, Michael M. Swift, Yiying Zhang
Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '12)

De-indirection for Flash-based SSDs with Nameless Writes
Yiying Zhang, Leo Prasath Arulraj, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 10th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '12)

Predictability of Rules in HIV-1 Protease Cleavage Site Analysis
Hyeoncheol Kim, Tae-Sun Yoon, Yiying Zhang, Anupam Dikshit, Su-Shing Chen
Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS '06)


Workshops

SC-Bench: A Large-Scale Dataset for Smart Contract Auditing
Shihao Xia, Mengting He, Linhai Song, Yiying Zhang
to appear at the Second International Workshop on Large Language Models for Code (LLM4Code '25)

Towards a Fully Disaggregated and Programmable Data Center
Yizhou Shan, Will Lin, Zhiyuan Guo, Yiying Zhang
the 13th ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys '22)

User-Defined Cloud
Yiying Zhang, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Harry Xu
Proceedings of the The 18th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS '21)

A Double-Edged Sword: Security Threats and Opportunities in One-Sided Network Communication
Shin-Yeh Tsai, Yiying Zhang
the 11th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud '19)

Challenges in Building and Deploying Disaggregated Persistent Memory
Yizhou Shan, Yutong Huang, Yiying Zhang
the 10th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW '19)

Building Atomic, Crash-Consistent Data Stores with Disaggregated Persistent Memory
Shin-Yeh Tsai, Yiying Zhang
the 10th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW '19)

Disaggregating Memory with Software-Managed Virtual Cache
Yizhou Shan, Yiying Zhang
the 2018 Workshop on Warehouse-scale Memory Systems (WAMS '18) (co-located with ASPLOS '18)

MemAlbum: an Object-Based Remote Software Transactional Memory System
Shin-Yeh Tsai, Yiying Zhang
the 2018 Workshop on Warehouse-scale Memory Systems (WAMS '18) (co-located with ASPLOS '18)

Split Container: Running Containers beyond Physical Machine Boundaries
Yilun Chen, Yiying Zhang
the 2018 Workshop on Warehouse-scale Memory Systems (WAMS '18) (co-located with ASPLOS '18)

Distributed Shared Persistent Memory
Yizhou Shan, Shin-Yeh Tsai, Yiying Zhang
the 9th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW '18)

Disaggregated Operating System
Yiying Zhang, Yizhou Shan, Sumukh Hallymysore
the 17th International Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS '17)

Learning from Big Malwares
Linhai Song, Heqing Huang, Wu Zhou, Wenfei Wu, Yiying Zhang
Proceedings of the 6th ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys '16)


Journals

Make It Real: An End-to-End Implementation of A Physically Disaggregated Data Center
Yiying Zhang
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 57(1): 1-9 (2023)

"Learned" Operating Systems
Yiying Zhang, Yutong Huang
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 53(1): 40-45 (2019)

Specificity Rule Discovery in HIV-1 Protease Cleavage Site Analysis
Hyeoncheol Kim, Yiying Zhang, Yong-Seok Heo, Heung-Bum Oh, Su-Shing Chen
Computational Biology and Chemistry 32(1): 72-79 (2008)


Tech Reports

Exploiting Network Loss for Distributed Approximate Computing with NetApprox
Ke Liu, Jinmou Li, Shin-Yeh Tsai, Theophilus Benson, Yiying Zhang
aarXiv:1901.01632

Duplication Aware Disk Array
Yiying Zhang, Vijayan Prabhakaran
Microsoft Technical Report (MSR-TR-2012-127)


Patents

Duplicate-aware Disk Arrays
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Yiying Zhang
US Patent US8631272B2

System and Method for an Efficient Cache Warm-up
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Gokul Soundararajan, Mark W. Storer, Yiying Zhang
US Patent US9317435


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