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This is the Group-Meeting collections of HKUST System NetworkING (SING) Research Group.

SING Weekly Discussions Archive

This is the PhD List Order1.

Welcome to choose your own topic of ML-Tutorials.

This is the SING-LAB List Order2.


2019

Octorber

Date Pre senter Topic Source Links
10/3 Yiding INFaaS on model-less machine learning inference Tutorial [/]

##September

Date Pre senter Topic Source Links
9/20 LiuYang advertising recommendation Papers [/]
9/12 Chaoliang Distributed machine learning Papers [/]
9/5 Gechen Clutering Tutorial [/]

August

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
8/22 Hao Flow scheduling (4) tutorial [/]
8/15 Xinchen ML Reinforcement Learning (3) tutorial [/]

July

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
7/25 Han ML Reinforcement Learning (2) tutorial [/]
7/18 Yiqing ML Supervised Learning (1) tutorial /
7/4 Ding Bridging the Edge-Cloud Barrier for Real-time Advanced Vision Analytics HotCloud19 Slides
7/4 Weiyan ML-tutorial-0 Machine Learning Slides

June

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
6/27 Xinchen Loom: Flexible and Efficient NIC Packet Scheduling NSDI19 Slides
6/27 Hao Pantheon: the training ground for Internet congestion-control research 
 Sigcomm18 Slides
6/20 Ding free discuss free discuss No Slides
6/20 Zhuoyi free discuss free discuss No Slides
6/13 Yiqing ML for CC free discuss No Slides
6/13 Duowen free discuss free discuss No Slides
6/6 Jingrong free discuss free discuss No Slides
6/6 Qinghe free discuss free discuss No Slides

May

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
5/30 Qinghuan free discuss free discuss No Slides
5/30 Tianhan free discuss free discuss No Slides
5/16 Weiyan free discuss free discuss No Slides
5/16 Chaoliang free discuss free discuss No Slides
5/9 Zhaoxiong free discuss free discuss No Slides
5/9 Ge free discuss free discuss No Slides

April

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
4/25 Yiding free discuss free discuss No Slides
4/25 Hao free discuss free discuss No Slides
4/18 Han free discuss free discuss No Slides
4/18 Xinchen free discuss free discuss No Slides
4/11 Zhuoyi free discuss free discuss No Slides
4/11 Ding free discuss free discuss No Slides
4/4 Wenxin free discuss free discuss No Slides
4/4 Gaoxiong free discuss free discuss No Slides

March

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
3/28 Gaoxiong free discuss free discuss No Slides
3/28 Yiqing free discuss free discuss No Slides
3/16 Jiacheng free discuss free discuss No Slides
3/16 Jingrong free discuss free discuss No Slides
3/9 Qinghe Secure Federated Transfer Learning Topic Slides
3/9 Duowen Tiresias: A GPU Cluster Manager for Distributed Deep Learning NSDI19 Slides
3/2 Jingrong Deconstructing RDMA-enabled Distributed Transactions: Hybrid is Better ! OSDI18 Slides
3/2 Ge FlowBlaze: Stateful Packet Processing in Hardware NSDI19 Slides

Febrary

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
2/23 Gaoxiong HyperLoop: Group-Based NIC-Offloading to Accelerate Replicated Transactions in Multi-Tenant Storage Systems Sigcomm2018 Slides
2/23 Chaoliang LegoOS: A Disseminated, Distributed OS for Hardware Resource Disaggregation OSDI18 Slides

January

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
1/19 Zhaoxiong TicTac: Improving Distributed Deep Learning With Communication Scheduling SysML19 Slides
1/19 Jiacheng Selecta: Heterogeneous Cloud Storage Configuration for Data Analytics ATC18 Slides
1/19 Yiqing Improving TCP Congestion Control with Machine Intelligence SIGCOMM18-NetAI Slides
1/12 Yiding Neural Adaptive Content-aware Internet Video Delivery OSDI18 Slides
1/12 Han Mainstream : Dynamic Stem-Sharing for Multi-Tenant Video Processing ATC18 Slides
1/12 Xinchen Floem: A Programming System for NIC-Accelerated Network Applications OSDI18 Slides
1/5 Weiyan Neural Architecture Search topic AAAI Slides
1/5 Qinghuan Applied Machine Learning at Facebook: A Datacenter Infrastructure Perspective HPCA Slides

2018

December

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
12/29 Weiyan AutoML Introduction NIPS Slides
12/29 Ding JANUS:Fast and Flexible Deep Learning
via Symbolic Graph Execution of Imperative Programs NSDI 2019 JANUS,Slides
12/22 Wenxin Distributed Big Data Stream Processing OSDI 2018 Three Steps, Slides
12/22 Duowen Datacenter RPCs can be General and Fast CMU & Intel Lab eRPC,Slides
12/01 Qinghe Pretzel: Opening the Black Box of Machine Learning Prediction Serving Systems OSDI 2018 Pretzel,Slides

November

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
11/24 Ge Token Flow Control in DCN Eurosys 2016 Token Flow Control,Slides
11/24 Jingrong FreeFlow NSDI 2019 FreeFlow,Slides
11/17 Hong Gandiva OSDI 2018 Gandiva,Slides
11/10 Chaoliang Flare:Optimizing Apache Spark OSDI 2018 Flare,Slides
11/10 Gaoxiong Learning-based Congestion Control NSDI 2018 PCC Vivace,Slides
11/03 Liu Multi-Armed Bandit Reinforcement Learning Slides
11/03 Zhaoxiong Ray BAIRLab 2018 Ray,Slides

October

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
10/27 Yiding Device Placement with RL ICML 2018 Spotlight, Slides
10/27 Jiacheng TVM OSDI 2018 TVM, Slides
10/20 Han Deep Reinforcement learning Overview Topic Slides
10/13 Xinchen HotCocoa: Hardware Congestion Control Abstractions HotNets 17 HotCocoa, Slides
10/06 Ding Hierarchical Heavy Hitter SIGCOMM 2017 Heavy Hitter Paper, Slides
10/06 Yiqing A tutorial on Parameter Server (Part II) OSDI 2014 Slides

September

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
09/29 Junxue How to use our TestBed Tutorial TestBed slides
09/22 Yiqing A tutorial on Parameter Server (Part I) OSDI 2014 PS paper, PPT
09/08 Zhaorong Andromeda: Performance, Isolation, and Velocity at Scale in Cloud Network Virtualization NSDI 2018 Andromeda paper and slides

August

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
08/31 Qinghe AWStream: Adaptive Wide-Area Streaming Analytics Sigcomm 2018 AWStream paper and slides
08/24 Wenxin Drizzle: Fast and Adaptable Stream Processing at Scale SOSP 2017 Drizzle paper and slides
08/18 Jingrong Revisiting Network Support for RDMA Sigcomm 2018 IRN paper and slides
08/11 Hong PCC: Re-architecting Congestion Control for Consistent High Performance NSDI 2015 PCC paper and slides
08/04 Ge Stateless Datacenter Load-balancing with Beamer NSDI 2018 Beamer paper and slides

July

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
07/28 Junxue SnailTrail: Generalizing Critical Paths for Online Analysis of Distributed Dataflows NSDI 2018 SnailTrail paper and slides
07/21 Gaoxiong Multi-Path Transport for RDMA in Datacenters NSDI 2018 MP-RDMA paper and slides
07/14 Qinghe Chameleon: Scalable Adaptation of video analytics Sigcomm 2018 Chameleon paper
07/07 Jiacheng Monotasks: Architecting for Performance Clarity in Data Analytics Frameworks SOSP 2017 Monotask paper

June

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
06/30 Justinas APUS: Fast and Scalable Paxos on RDMA SoCC 2017 APUS paper
06/23 Shuihai Homa: A Receiver-Driven Low-Latency Transport Protocol Using Network Priorities Sigcomm 2018 HOMA paper
06/16 Ge KV-Direct: High-Performance In-Memory Key-Value Store with Programmable NIC SOSP 2017 KV paper slides
06/09 Yuchao Low Latency RNN Inference with Cellular Batching Eurosys 2018 batchmaker paper
06/02 Wenxin Introduction to SmartNICs slides

May

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
05/26 Junxue NetChain: Scale-Free Sub-RTT Coordination NSDI 2018 NetChain paper and slides
05/19 Hong Semi-Oblivious Traffic Engineering: The Road Not Taken NSDI 2018 SMORE paper and slides
05/12 Ahmed Exploring Existing Open Source Network Operating Systems and APIs slides
05/05 Chaoliang PASTE: A Network Programming Interface for Non-Volatile Main Memory NSDI 2018 PASTE paper and slides

April

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
04/28 Jiacheng Approximating Fair Queueing on Reconfigurable Switches NSDI 2018 AFQ paper and slides
04/20 Li, Yuchao AUTO and BDS rehearsals
04/14 Zhaoxiong SilkRoad: Making Stateful Layer-4 Load Balancing Fast and Cheap Using Switching ASICs Sigcomm 2017 Silkroad paper Silkroad slides

March

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
03/24 Gaoxiong The Case for Moving Congestion Control Out of the Datapath HotNets 2017 CCP paper
03/17 Yiding Clipper: A Low-Latency Online Prediction Serving System NSDI 2017 Clipper paper and slides
03/10 Yiqing Pingmesh: A Large-Scale System for Data Center Network Latency Measurement and Analysis Sigcomm 2015 Pingmesh paper
03/03 Baochen LITE Kernel RDMA Support for Datacenter Applications SOSP 2017 LITE paper

Febrary

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
02/10 Qinghe NEVE: Nested Virtualization Extensions for ARM SOSP 2017 NEVE paper slides

January

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
01/13 Justinas Eris: Coordination-Free Consistent Transactions Using In-Network Concurrency Control SOSP 2017 Eris paper
01/06 Li Taking the Edge off with Espresso Scale, Reliability and Programmability for Global Internet Peering Sigcomm 2017 Espresso paper

2017

December

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
12/31 Ge NetCache: Balancing Key-Value Stores with Fast In-Network Caching SOSP 2017 NetCache paper P4 introduction slides
12/09 Junxue Carousel: Scalable Traffic Shaping at End Hosts Sigcomm 2017 Carousel paper
12/02 Hong RotorNet: A Scalable, Low-complexity, Optical Datacenter Network Sigcomm 2017 RotorNet paper slides

November

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
11/25 Bairen CrystalNet: Faithfully Emulating Large Production Networks SOSP 2017 CrystalNet paper slides
11/18 Zhaoxiong CherryPick: Adaptively Unearthing the Best Cloud Configurations for Big Data Analytics NSDI 2017 CherryPick paper and slides
11/11 Jiacheng SLAQ: Quality-Driven Scheduling for Distributed Machine Learning SoCC 2017 SLAQ paper
11/04 Yiding No! Not Another Deep Learning Framework HotOS 2017 paper link

October

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
10/28 Baochen Poseidon: An Efficient Communication Architecture for Distributed Deep Learning on GPU Clusters ATC 2017 Poseidon paper and slides
10/21 Qinghe Neural Adaptive Video Streaming with Pensieve Sigcomm 2017 Pensive paper
10/14 Shuihai Re-architecting datacenter networks and stacks for low latency and high performance Sigcomm 2017 NDP paper
10/07 Gaoxiong The QUIC Transport Protocol: Design and Internet-Scale Deployment Sigcomm 2017 QUIC paper slides

September

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
09/30 Li Deploying Unique DL Networks as Micro-Services with TensorRT, user Extensible Layers, and GPU Rest Engine NVDIA GTC 2017 TensorRT slides
09/16 Yuchao DRILL: Micro Load Balancing for Low-latency Data Center Networks Sigcomm 2017 DRILL paper slides
09/09 Junxue Summary of sigcomm 2017 Sigcomm 2017 papers
09/02 Justinas vCorfu: A Cloud-Scale Object Store on a Shared Log NSDI 2017 vCorfu paper and slides

August

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
08/26 Ge Stateless Network Functions: Breaking the Tight Coupling of State and Processing NSDI 2017 StatelessNF paper and slides
08/19 Hong resilient datacenter load balancing in the wild Sigcomm 2017 Hermes paper slides
08/12 Gaoxiong Evaluating the Power of Flexible Packet Processing for Network Resource Allocation NSDI 2017 FlexSwitch paper and slides

July

Date Presenter Topic Source Links
07/29 Bairen Performance Isolation Anomalies in RDMA KBNets 2017 slides
07/15 Baochen Fast, Scalable and Simple Distributed Transactions with Two-Sided (RDMA) Datagram RPCs SOSP 2016 Faast paper and slides