Publications

@misc{lai2026spotlightsynergizingseedexploration,
  title = {Spotlight: Synergizing Seed Exploration and Spot GPUs for DiT RL Post-Training},
  author = {Ruiqi Lai and Dakai An and Wei Gao and Ju Huang and Siran Yang and Jiamang Wang and Lin Qu and Dmitrii Ustiugov and Wei Wang},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2606.19004},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.DC},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19004}
}

@misc{chen2026faserfinegrainedphasemanagement,
  title = {FASER: Fine-Grained Phase Management for Speculative Decoding in Dynamic LLM Serving},
  author = {Wenyan Chen and Chengzhi Lu and Yanying Lin and Dmitrii Ustiugov},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2604.20503},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.DC},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20503}
}

@misc{park2026nexustransparentiooffloading,
  title = {Nexus: Transparent I/O Offloading for High-Density Serverless Computing},
  author = {JooYoung Park and Kevin Nguetchouang and Jovan Stojkovic and Likun Zhang and Riccardo Mancini and Marco Cali and Dmitrii Ustiugov},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2604.06682},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.DC},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06682}
}

@misc{kondrashov2026snapshare,
  title = {{SnapShare}: Isolation-Preserving Deduplication for Serverless Snapshots},
  author = {Leonid Kondrashov and Likun Zhang and André Filipe do Pilar de Jesus and Hans Pistor and Marco Cali and Riccardo Mancini and Rodrigo Bruno and Dmitrii Ustiugov},
  year = {2026}
}

@misc{zou2026codecsightleveragingvideocodec,
  title = {CodecSight: Leveraging Video Codec Signals for Efficient Streaming VLM Inference},
  author = {Yulin Zou and Yan Chen and Wenyan Chen and JooYoung Park and Shivaraman Nitin and Luo Tao and Francisco Romero and Dmitrii Ustiugov},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2604.06036},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.DC},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06036}
}

@misc{kondrashov2025pulsenet,
  title = {Melding the Serverless Control Plane with the Conventional Cluster Manager for Speed and Resource Efficiency},
  author = {Leonid Kondrashov and Lazar Cvetković and Hancheng Wang and Boxi Zhou and Dmitrii Ustiugov},
  year = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{lai2026tokenscale,
  title = {TokenScale: Timely and Accurate Autoscaling for Disaggregated LLM Serving with Token Velocity},
  author = {Ruiqi Lai and Hongrui Liu and Chengzhi Lu and Zonghao Liu and Siyu Cao and Siyang Shao and Yixin Zhang and Luo Mai and Dmitrii Ustiugov},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC)},
  year = {2026}
}

@inproceedings{kondrashov2026rethinkingaicloudinfrastructure,
  title = {Rethinking AI Cloud Infrastructure for Agentic Serving Systems with the Aries Experimentation Framework},
  author = {Leonid Kondrashov and Hongrui Liu and JooYoung Park and Boxi Zhou and Zonghao Liu and Chengzhi Lu and Riccardo Mancini and Esha Choukse and Haris Javaid and German Sviridov and Tao Peng and Chen Zhao and Anastasia Avdeeva and Aleksei Gusev and Marios Kogias and Luo Mai and Dmitrii Ustiugov},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC)},
  year = {2026}
}

@inproceedings{hong2025slimsc,
  title = {{Slim-SC}: Thought Pruning for Efficient Scaling with Self-Consistency},
  author = {Hong, Colin and Guo, Xinyu and Singh, Chaanan Anand and Choukse, Esha and Ustiugov, Dmitrii},
  booktitle = {Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  year = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{lai2025workloads,
  title = {Manage the Workloads, not the Cluster: Designing a Control Plane for Large-Scale {AI} Clusters},
  author = {Lai, Ruiqi and Cao, Siyu and Li, Long and Mai, Long and Ustiugov, Dmitrii},
  booktitle = {EuroMLSys},
  year = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{jesalpura2025shattering,
  title = {Shattering the Ephemeral Storage Cost Barrier for Data-Intensive Serverless Workflows},
  author = {Jesalpura, Shyam and Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Baczun, Michal and Alper, Mert Bora and Feyzkhanov, Rustem and Bugnion, Edouard and Kogias, Marios and Grot, Boris},
  booktitle = {SESAME},
  year = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{fu2024serverlessllm,
  title = {{ServerlessLLM}: Locality-Enhanced Serverless Inference for Large Language Models},
  author = {Fu, Yao and Xue, Leyang and Huang, Yeqi and Brabete, Andrei-Octavian and Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Patel, Yuvraj and Mai, Long},
  booktitle = {USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)},
  year = {2024}
}

@inproceedings{ustiugov2023invitro,
  title = {Enabling In-Vitro Serverless Systems Research},
  author = {Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Park, Dohyun and Cvetković, Lazar and Djokic, Mihajlo and Hè, Hongyu and Grot, Boris and Klimovic, Ana},
  booktitle = {Workshop on Resource Disaggregation and Serverless (WORDS) at SOSP},
  year = {2023}
}

@inproceedings{schall2022lukewarm,
  title = {Lukewarm Serverless Functions: Characterization and Optimization},
  author = {Schall, David and Margaritov, Artemiy and Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Sandberg, Andreas and Grot, Boris},
  booktitle = {International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)},
  year = {2022}
}

@inproceedings{ustiugov2021stellar,
  title = {Analyzing Tail Latency in Serverless Clouds with {STeLLAR}},
  author = {Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Amariucai, Theodor and Grot, Boris},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC)},
  year = {2021}
}

@inproceedings{ustiugov2021snapshots,
  title = {Benchmarking, Analysis, and Optimization of Serverless Function Snapshots},
  author = {Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Petrov, Plamen and Kogias, Marios and Bugnion, Edouard and Grot, Boris},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)},
  year = {2021}
}

@inproceedings{margaritov2021ptemagnet,
  title = {{PTEMagnet}: Fine-Grained Physical Memory Reservation for Faster Page Walks in Public Clouds},
  author = {Margaritov, Artemiy and Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Shahab, A and Grot, Boris},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)},
  year = {2021}
}

@inproceedings{ustiugov2020bankrupt,
  title = {Bankrupt Covert Channel: Turning Network Predictability into Vulnerability},
  author = {Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Petrov, Plamen and Katebzadeh, M. R. S. and Grot, Boris},
  booktitle = {Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT)},
  year = {2020}
}

@inproceedings{margaritov2019prefetched,
  title = {Prefetched Address Translation},
  author = {Margaritov, Artemiy and Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Bugnion, Edouard and Grot, Boris},
  booktitle = {IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)},
  year = {2019}
}

@article{novakovic2019rackscale,
  title = {Mitigating Load Imbalance in Distributed Data Serving with Rack-Scale Memory Pooling},
  author = {Novakovic, Stanko and Daglis, Alexandros and Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Bugnion, Edouard and Falsafi, Babak and Grot, Boris},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)},
  year = {2019}
}

@inproceedings{margaritov2018learned,
  title = {Virtual Address Translation via Learned Page Table Indexes},
  author = {Margaritov, Artemiy and Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Bugnion, Edouard and Grot, Boris},
  booktitle = {NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Systems},
  year = {2018}
}

@inproceedings{ustiugov2018scm,
  title = {Design Guidelines for High-Performance {SCM} Hierarchies},
  author = {Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Daglis, Alexandros and Picorel, Javier and Sutherland, Mark and Bugnion, Edouard and Falsafi, Babak and Pnevmatikatos, Dionisios},
  booktitle = {International Symposium on Memory Systems (MEMSYS)},
  year = {2018}
}

@article{drumond2018codesign,
  title = {Algorithm/Architecture Co-Design for Near-Memory Processing},
  author = {Drumond, Mario and Daglis, Alexandros and Mirzadeh, Naser and Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Picorel, Javier and Falsafi, Babak and Grot, Boris and Pnevmatikatos, Dionisios},
  journal = {ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review},
  year = {2018}
}

@inproceedings{drumond2017mondrian,
  title = {The Mondrian Data Engine},
  author = {Drumond, Mario and Daglis, Alexandros and Mirzadeh, Naser and Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Picorel, Javier and Falsafi, Babak and Grot, Boris and Pnevmatikatos, Dionisios},
  booktitle = {International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)},
  year = {2017}
}

@inproceedings{daglis2016sabres,
  title = {{SABRes}: Atomic Object Reads for In-Memory Rack-Scale Computing},
  author = {Daglis, Alexandros and Ustiugov, Dmitrii and Novakovic, Stanko and Bugnion, Edouard and Falsafi, Babak and Grot, Boris},
  booktitle = {IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)},
  year = {2016}
}