EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Zhifei Li 0006
dblp:181/2835-6
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0003-1488-4871ORCID · conflict
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Cloud and datacenter computing · 44% Parallel and multicore computing · 44% GPUs and heterogeneous computing · 13% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Efficient and distributed learning · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › inference serving
large language model serving |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | SkyWalker: A Locality-Aware Cross-Region Load Balancer for LLM Inference · EuroSys 2026 |
Cloud and datacenter computing
cluster resource management and scheduling |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | SkyWalker: A Locality-Aware Cross-Region Load Balancer for LLM Inference · EuroSys 2026 |
Parallel and multicore computing
load balancing |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | SkyWalker: A Locality-Aware Cross-Region Load Balancer for LLM Inference · EuroSys 2026 |
GPUs and heterogeneous computing › GPU resource management
GPU cluster resource management |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | SkyWalker: A Locality-Aware Cross-Region Load Balancer for LLM Inference · EuroSys 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
selective pushing load balancing · 2.0cache-aware traffic handling · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | SkyWalker: A Locality-Aware Cross-Region Load Balancer for LLM InferenceabstractServing Large Language Models (LLMs) efficiently in multi-region setups remains a challenge. Due to cost and GPU availability concerns, providers typically deploy LLMs in multiple regions using instance with long-term commitments, like reserved instances or on-premise clusters, which are often underutilized due to their region-local traffic handling and diurnal traffic variance. In this paper, we introduce SkyWalker, a multi-region load balancer for LLM inference that aggregates regional diurnal patterns through cross-region traffic handling. By doing so, SkyWalker enables providers to reserve instances based on expected global demand, rather than peak demand in each individual region. Meanwhile, SkyWalker preserves KV-Cache locality and load balancing, ensuring cost efficiency without sacrificing performance. SkyWalker achieves this with a cache-aware cross-region traffic handler and a selective pushing based load balancing mechanism. Our evaluation on real-world workloads shows that it achieves 1.12–2.06× higher throughput and 1.74–6.30× lower latency compared to existing load balancers, while reducing total serving cost by 25%. Ziming Mao, Jamison Kerney, Ethan J. Jackson, Zhifei Li 0006, Jiarong Xing, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica |
EuroSys | 5 |
| 2025 | Checkpoint: A Tool for Supporting Terminal-Based Capture-the-Flag Assessments
Connor Robert Bernard, Melissa Fabros, Zhifei Li 0006, Narges Norouzi, Dan Garcia 0001, Armando Fox |
SIGCSE (2) | 3 |