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Diandian GU

ML system researcher/developer

About me

I am Diandian Gu (谷 典典), an ML system researcher/developer. I received my Ph.D. degree from Computer Systems Research Group, Peking University, advised by Prof. Xuanzhe Liu and Prof. Xin Jin. Previously, I received my B.S. in Computer Science from Peking University.

My research mainly focuses on systems for machine learning, distributed deep learning, and cluster resource management. I am also interested in software engineering.


Publications

Selected Conference Publications

ElasticFlow: An Elastic Serverless Training Platform for Distributed Deep Learning
Diandian Gu, Yihao Zhao, Yinmin Zhong, Yifan Xiong, Zhenhua Han, Peng Cheng, Fan Yang, Gang Huang, Xin Jin, Xuanzhe Liu
Proceedings of 28th Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS'23)
[PDF] [Code]

Promal: Precise Window Transition Graphs for Android via Synergy of Program Analysis and Machine Learning
Changlin Liu, Hanlin Wang, Tianming Liu, Diandian Gu, Yun Ma, Haoyu Wang, Xusheng Xiao
Proceedings of 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'22)
[PDF][Code]

LinkRadar: Assist the Analysis of Inter-app Page Links via Transfer Learning
Diandian Gu, Ziniu Hu, Shangchen Du, Yun Ma
Proceedings of 28th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'19)
[PDF] [Slides] [Poster]

Selected Preprint & Journal Publications

GreenFlow: A Carbon-Efficient Scheduler for Deep Learning Workloads
Diandian Gu, Yihao Zhao, Peng Sun, Xin Jin, Xuanzhe Liu
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 36, No. 2 (February 2025)
[PDF]
LoongTrain: Efficient Training of Long-Sequence LLMs with Head-Context Parallelism
Diandian Gu, Peng Sun, Qinghao Hu, Ting Huang, Xun Chen, Yingtong Xiong, Guoteng Wang, Qiaoling Chen, Shangchun Zhao, Jiarui Fang, Yonggang Wen, Tianwei Zhang, Xin Jin, Xuanzhe Liu
ArXiv preprint 2406.18485 (June 2024)
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Rise of Distributed Deep Learning Training in the Big Model Era: From a Software Engineering Perspective
Xuanzhe Liu, Diandian Gu, Zhenpeng Chen, Jinfeng Wen, Zili Zhang, Yun Ma, Haoyu Wang, Xin Jin
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Vol. 32, No. 6, Article 156 (September 2023)
[PDF][Code]
Roaming Through the Castle Tunnels: An Empirical Analysis of Inter-app Navigation of Android Apps
Yun Ma, Ziniu Hu, Diandian Gu, Li Zhou, Qiaozhu Mei, Gang Huang, Xuanzhe Liu
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Vol. 14, No.3, Article 14 (June 2020)
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Life

I am not only a researcher but also a dancer. I am interested in old school dance and interesting choreographies.
I am a member of the hiphop team of FL Crew.