KernelBand: Boosting LLM-based Kernel Optimization with a Hierarchical and Hardware-aware Multi-armed Bandit. - Dezhi Ran; Shuxiao Xie; Mingfang Ji; Ziyue Hua; Mengzhou Wu; Yuan Cao; Yuzhe Guo; Hao Yu 016; Linyi Li 001; Yitao Hu; Tao Xie 001 (CoRR, 2025)

PARD: Enhancing Goodput for Inference Pipeline via Proactive Request Dropping. - Zhixin Zhao; Yitao Hu; Simin Chen; Mingfang Ji; Wei Yang 013; Yuhao Zhang 006; Laiping Zhao; Wenxin Li 001; Xiulong Liu 001; Wenyu Qu; Hao Wang 022 (EuroSys, 2026)

AESOP: Adversarial Execution-path Selection to Overload Deep Learning Pipelines. - Tingxi Li; Mingfang Ji; Ravishka Rathnasuriya; Simin Chen; Yitao Hu; Wei Yang 013 (CoRR, 2026)