Tony C. W. Liu

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0009-8953-8619ORCID · verified

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 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.

Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper
Program analysis · 100%
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
GPUs and heterogeneous computing · 100%

Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Program analysis
dynamic analysis
1.012026
Triton-Sanitizer: A Fast and Device-Agnostic Memory Sanitizer for Triton with Rich Diagnostic Context · ASPLOS (2) 2026
GPUs and heterogeneous computing
GPU programming
1.012026
Triton-Sanitizer: A Fast and Device-Agnostic Memory Sanitizer for Triton with Rich Diagnostic Context · ASPLOS (2) 2026

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

symbolic execution · 2.0eager simulation · 2.0SMT solver · 2.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Triton-Sanitizer: A Fast and Device-Agnostic Memory Sanitizer for Triton with Rich Diagnostic Context
abstract
Memory access errors remain one of the most pervasive bugs in GPU programming. Existing GPU sanitizers such as compute-sanitizer detect memory access errors by instrumenting every memory instruction in low-level IRs or binaries, which imposes high overhead and provides minimal memory access error diagnostic context for fixing problems. We present Triton-Sanitizer, the first device-agnostic memory sanitizer designed for Triton, a domain-specific language for developing portable, efficient GPU kernels for deep learning workloads. Triton-Sanitizer leverages Triton's tile-oriented semantics to construct symbolic expressions for memory addresses and masks, verifies them with an SMT solver, and selectively falls back to eager simulation for indirect accesses. This hybrid analysis enables precise detection of memory access errors without false positives while avoiding the cost of per-access instrumentation. Beyond detection, Triton-Sanitizer generates rich diagnostic reports that attribute violations to the tensors nearest to the violated addresses, track the complete call path, and expose the symbolic operations responsible for incorrect addresses. Evaluated on seven widely used open-source repositories of Triton kernels, Triton-Sanitizer uncovered 24 previously unknown memory access errors, of which 8 have already been fixed and upstreamed by us. Compared to compute-sanitizer, Triton-Sanitizer achieves speedups ranging from 1.07× to 14.66×, with an average improvement of 1.62×, demonstrating its ability to enhance performance, precision, and usability in memory access error detection.
Hao Wu 0077, Qidong Zhao, Songqing Chen, Yueming Hao, Tony C. W. Liu, Adnan Aziz, Keren Zhou 0001
ASPLOS (2)6