Kostis Kaffes

According to our database, Kostis Kaffes authored at least 35 papers between 2019 and 2026.

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2026

BranchBench: Aligning Database Branching with Agentic Demands.

Elaine Ang, Sam Weldon, In Keun Kim, Kevin Durand, Kostis Kaffes, Eugene Wu

CoRR, April, 2026

AgentOpt v0.1 Technical Report: Client-Side Optimization for LLM-Based Agent.

Wenyue Hua, Sripad Karne, Qian Xie, Armaan Agrawal, Nikos Pagonas, Kostis Kaffes, Tianyi Peng

CoRR, April, 2026

Outrunning LLM Cutoffs: A Live Kernel Crash Resolution Benchmark for All.

Chenxi Huang, Alex Mathai, Feiyang Yu, Aleksandr Nogikh, Petros Maniatis, Franjo Ivancic, Eugene Wu, Kostis Kaffes, Junfeng Yang, Baishakhi Ray

CoRR, February, 2026

Harvest: Opportunistic Peer-to-Peer GPU Caching for LLM Inference.

Nikhil Gopal, Kostis Kaffes

CoRR, February, 2026

Agentic Data Environments.

Elaine Ang, Chenxi Huang, Georgios Liargkovas, Jerry Liu, Jinhui Liu, Nikos Pagonas, Charlie Summers, Haonan Wang, Jiakai Xu, Tianle Zhou, Yusen Zhang, Zhou Yu, Zhuo Zhang, Tianyi Peng, Kostis Kaffes, Eugene Wu

IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 2026

Enabling Fast Networking in the Public Cloud.

Alireza Sanaee, Vahab Jabrayilov, Ilias Marinos, Farbod Shahinfar, Divyanshu Saxena, Gianni Antichi, Kostis Kaffes

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2026

2025

Cortex: Workflow-Aware Resource Pooling and Scheduling for Agentic Serving.

Nikos Pagonas, Yeounoh Chung, Kostis Kaffes, Arvind Krishnamurthy

CoRR, October, 2025

Toward Systems Foundations for Agentic Exploration.

Jiakai Xu, Tianle Zhou, Eugene Wu, Kostis Kaffes

CoRR, October, 2025

Speculative Actions: A Lossless Framework for Faster Agentic Systems.

Naimeng Ye, Arnav Ahuja, Georgios Liargkovas, Yunan Lu, Kostis Kaffes, Tianyi Peng

CoRR, October, 2025

Fast Userspace Networking for the Rest of Us.

Alireza Sanaee, Vahab Jabrayilov, Ilias Marinos, Anuj Kalia, Divyanshu Saxena, Prateesh Goyal, Kostis Kaffes, Gianni Antichi

CoRR, February, 2025

Set It and Forget It: Zero-Mod ML Magic for Linux Tuning.

Georgios Liargkovas, Prabhpreet Singh Sodhi, Kostis Kaffes

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Practical Adoption Challenges of ML for Systems, 2025

Empowering machine-learning assisted kernel decisions with eBPFML.

Prabhpreet Singh Sodhi, Georgios Liargkovas, Kostis Kaffes

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on eBPF and Kernel Extensions, 2025

ALAP: Intent-Based Serverless Computing via Delayed Decision-Making.

Prasoon Sinha, Kostis Kaffes, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar

Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2025

Wave: Offloading Resource Management to SmartNIC Cores.

Jack Tigar Humphries, Neel Natu, Kostis Kaffes, Stanko Novakovic, Paul Turner, Henry M. Levy, David E. Culler, Christos Kozyrakis

Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2025

2024

Wave: A Split OS Architecture for Application Engines.

Jack Tigar Humphries, Neel Natu, Kostis Kaffes, Stanko Novakovic, Paul Turner, Hank Levy, David E. Culler, Christos Kozyrakis

CoRR, 2024

Shabari: Delayed Decision-Making for Faster and Efficient Serverless Functions.

Prasoon Sinha, Kostis Kaffes, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar

CoRR, 2024

LibPreemptible: Enabling Fast, Adaptive, and Hardware-Assisted User-Space Scheduling.

Yueying Li, Nikita Lazarev, David Koufaty, Tenny Yin, Andy Anderson, Zhiru Zhang, G. Edward Suh, Kostis Kaffes, Christina Delimitrou

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, 2024

Rethinking the Networking Stack for Serverless Environments: A Sidecar Approach.

Vishwanath Seshagiri, Abhinav Gupta, Vahab Jabrayilov, Avani Wildani, Kostis Kaffes

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2024

2023

Research for Practice: OS Scheduling.

Kostis Kaffes, Peter Alvaro

Commun. ACM, September, 2023

OS Scheduling: Better scheduling policies for modern computing systems.

Kostis Kaffes, Peter Alvaro

ACM Queue, 2023

BPF-oF: Storage Function Pushdown Over the Network.

Ioannis Zarkadas, Tal Zussman, Jeremy Carin, Sheng Jiang, Yuhong Zhong, Jonas Pfefferle, Hubertus Franke, Junfeng Yang, Kostis Kaffes, Ryan Stutsman, Asaf Cidon

CoRR, 2023

Towards Fast, Adaptive, and Hardware-Assisted User-Space Scheduling.

Yueying Li, Nikita Lazarev, David Koufaty, Yijun Yin, Andy Anderson, Zhiru Zhang, G. Edward Suh, Kostis Kaffes, Christina Delimitrou

CoRR, 2023

2022

Apiary: A DBMS-Backed Transactional Function-as-a-Service Framework.

Peter Kraft, Qian Li, Kostis Kaffes, Athinagoras Skiadopoulos, Deeptaanshu Kumar, Danny Cho, Jason Li, Robert Redmond, Nathan W. Weckwerth, Brian S. Xia, Peter Bailis, Michael J. Cafarella, Goetz Graefe, Jeremy Kepner, Christos Kozyrakis, Michael Stonebraker, Lalith Suresh, Xiangyao Yu, Matei Zaharia

CoRR, 2022

Hermod: principled and practical scheduling for serverless functions.

Kostis Kaffes, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Christos Kozyrakis

Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Cloud Computing, SoCC 2022, 2022

A Progress Report on DBOS: A Database-oriented Operating System.

Qian Li, Peter Kraft, Kostis Kaffes, Athinagoras Skiadopoulos, Deeptaanshu Kumar, Jason Li, Michael J. Cafarella, Goetz Graefe, Jeremy Kepner, Christos Kozyrakis, Michael Stonebraker, Lalith Suresh, Matei Zaharia

Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, 2022

2021

DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System.

Athinagoras Skiadopoulos, Qian Li, Peter Kraft, Kostis Kaffes, Daniel Hong, Shana Mathew, David Bestor, Michael J. Cafarella, Vijay Gadepally, Goetz Graefe, Jeremy Kepner, Christos Kozyrakis, Tim Kraska, Michael Stonebraker, Lalith Suresh, Matei Zaharia

Proc. VLDB Endow., 2021

Practical Scheduling for Real-World Serverless Computing.

Kostis Kaffes, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Christos Kozyrakis

CoRR, 2021

Syrup: User-Defined Scheduling Across the Stack.

Kostis Kaffes, Jack Tigar Humphries, David Mazières, Christos Kozyrakis

Proceedings of the SOSP '21: ACM SIGOPS 28th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 2021

A case against (most) context switches.

Jack Tigar Humphries, Kostis Kaffes, David Mazières, Christos Kozyrakis

Proceedings of the HotOS '21: Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, 2021

2020

RackSched: A Microsecond-Scale Scheduler for Rack-Scale Computers (Technical Report).

Hang Zhu, Kostis Kaffes, Zixu Chen, Zhenming Liu, Christos Kozyrakis, Ion Stoica, Xin Jin

CoRR, 2020

RackSched: A Microsecond-Scale Scheduler for Rack-Scale Computers.

Hang Zhu, Kostis Kaffes, Zixu Chen, Zhenming Liu, Christos Kozyrakis, Ion Stoica, Xin Jin

Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2020

Leveraging application classes to save power in highly-utilized data centers.

Kostis Kaffes, Dragos Sbirlea, Yiyan Lin, David Lo, Christos Kozyrakis

Proceedings of the SoCC '20: ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2020

2019

Shinjuku: Preemptive Scheduling for μsecond-scale Tail Latency.

Kostis Kaffes, Timothy Chong, Jack Tigar Humphries, Adam Belay, David Mazières, Christos Kozyrakis

Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2019

Mind the Gap: A Case for Informed Request Scheduling at the NIC.

Jack Tigar Humphries, Kostis Kaffes, David Mazières, Christos Kozyrakis

Proceedings of the 18th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, 2019

Centralized Core-granular Scheduling for Serverless Functions.

Kostis Kaffes, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Christos Kozyrakis

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, SoCC 2019, 2019