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2025-10

2025-10-20 Reading Notes: “DistServe: Disaggregating Prefill and Decoding for Goodput-optimized Large Language Model Serving”
2025-10-12 Reading Notes: “Preble: Efficient Distributed Prompt Scheduling for LLM Serving”
2025-10-03 Reading Note: “ORCA: A Distributed Serving System for Transformer-Based Generative Models”

2025-05

2025-05-08 Reading Notes: Qwen Technical Report
2025-05-07 Reading Notes Collections: Context Length Extrapolation
2025-05-05 Reading Notes: MiniCPM Technical Report

2025-04

2025-04-29 Reading Notes: LLaMA Technical Report
2025-04-23 Word Embedding Techniques
2025-04-22 Understanding Tokenization Methods

2025-03

2025-02

2025-02-28 Reading Notes: GPT Series
2025-02-24 Reading Notes: “Alpa: Automating Inter- and Intra-Operator Parallelism for Distributed Deep Learning”
2025-02-23 Reading Notes: “GPipe: Easy Scaling with Micro-Batch Pipeline”
2025-02-16 Distributed Training Basics
2025-02-16 Reading Note: Megatron-LM v1
2025-02-07 Quantization for NN Inference
2025-02-02 Reading Note: TVM
2025-02-02 Reading Note: Triton

2025-01

2025-01-28 Moore’s Law, and the future of computing beyond Moore’s Law
2025-01-27 Deep Learning Performance Background
2025-01-27 Reading Notes: MI300X vs H100 vs H200 Benchmark Part 1: Training – CUDA Moat Still Alive
2025-01-22 An Architecture Overview of ML Systems
2025-01-16 Two ways of adapting LLMs for Recommender Systems

2024-12

2024-12-07 CSE221 - lec18: File System Cont. : GFS
2024-12-03 CSE221 - lec17: Networking: IX & Snap

2024-11

2024-11-27 CSE221 - lec16: Networking: RPC & Receive Livelock
2024-11-24 CSE221 - lec15: Scalability: RCU & Analysis of Linux Scalability
2024-11-22 CSE221 - lec14: Scheduling:Scheduler Activation & Decades of Wasted Cores
2024-11-21 CSE221 - lec13: File System Consistency: Soft Updates & Split FS
2024-11-13 CSE221 - lec12: File System: FFS & LFS
2024-11-12 File System Refresher
2024-11-08 CSE221 - lec11: Virtualization: Container-based OS & FireCracker
2024-11-06 CSE221 - lec10: Virtualization: VM370 & Xen
2024-11-05 CSE221 - lec09: Extending OS: L4 & Exokernel

2024-10

2024-10-31 CSE221 - lec08: Distributed OSes: Plan 9 & LegoOS
2024-10-29 CSE221 - lec07: Distributed OSes: Distributed V & Sprite
2024-10-24 CSE221 - lec06: Virtual Memory: VAX/VMS & Mach
2024-10-22 CSE221 - lec05: Synchronization: Monitor & Mesa
2024-10-17 CSE221 - lec04: Protection: Multics & Singularity
2024-10-15 CSE221 - lec03: Protection: HYDRA & Protection
2024-10-10 CSE221 - lec02: Historical Perspectives: TENEX & UNIX
2024-10-08 CSE221 - lec01: Historical Perspectives: THE & Nucleus
2024-10-04 CSE221 - lec00: Introduction

2024-08

2024-08-21 Resource Management in Modern C++
2024-08-16 Type Deduction in Modern C++

2024-06

2024-06-23 Some Ideas on Research
2024-06-08 Reading Note: “WizardLM: Empowering Large Language Models to Follow Complex Instructions”
2024-06-02 Brief Notes on Instruction Tuning

2024-03

2024-01

Lifan Sun

Software Dev Engineer

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Some Ideas on Research

Class Loading in Java

LLVM IR Tutorial: Phis, GEPs, and other things, oh my! - LLVM Developers Conference 2019

The Elements of Search-Based Software Testing Techniques

Reading Note: “An Industrial Evaluation of Unit Test Generation: Finding Real Faults in a Financial Application”, ICSE-SEIP '17

Reading Note: “Whole Test Suite Generation”, TSE 2012