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Areet Sheth
dblp:380/3716
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 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 |
Distributed systems · 100% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Database system architecture and tuning · 100% | |
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Runtime systems and virtual machines · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Distributed systems › fault tolerance
checkpointing |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Kishu: Time-Traveling for Computational Notebooks · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2024 |
Distributed systems › fault tolerance › checkpointing
incremental checkpointing |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Kishu: Time-Traveling for Computational Notebooks · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
incremental checkout · 2.3co-variable granularity checkpointing · 2.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Kishu: Time-Traveling for Computational NotebooksabstractComputational notebooks (e.g., Jupyter, Google Colab) are widely used by data scientists. A key feature of notebooks is the interactive computing model of iteratively executing cells (i.e., a set of statements) and observing the result (e.g., model or plot). Unfortunately, existing notebook systems do not offer time-traveling to past states : when the user executes a cell, the notebook session state consisting of user-defined variables can be irreversibly modified —e.g., the user cannot 'un-drop' a dataframe column. This is because, unlike DBMS, existing notebook systems do not keep track of the session state. Existing techniques for checkpointing and restoring session states, such as OS-level memory snapshot or application-level session dump, are insufficient: checkpointing can incur prohibitive storage costs and may fail, while restoration can only be inefficiently performed from scratch by fully loading checkpoint files. In this paper, we introduce a new notebook system, Kishu, that offers time-traveling to and from arbitrary notebook states using an efficient and fault-tolerant incremental checkpoint and checkout mechanism. Kishu creates incremental checkpoints that are small and correctly preserve complex inter-variable dependencies at a novel Co-variable granularity. Then, to return to a previous state, Kishu accurately identifies the state difference between the current and target states to perform incremental checkout at sub-second latency with minimal data loading. Kishu is compatible with 146 object classes from popular data science libraries (e.g., Ray, Spark, PyTorch), and reduces checkpoint size and checkout time by up to 4.55× and 9.02×, respectively, on a variety of notebooks. Zhaoheng Li, Supawit Chockchowwat, Areet Sheth, Yongjoo Park, Ribhav Sahu |
Proc. VLDB Endow. | 3 |