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Hugo Barbalho
dblp:136/0595 · also Hugo de Oliveira Barbalho
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0002-8544-0181ORCID · verified
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 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.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
2 papers |
Cloud and datacenter computing · 83% Electronic design automation · 17% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Reinforcement learning · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloud and datacenter computing › resource provisioning
virtual machine provisioning |
1.1 | 2 | 2025 | Kamino: Efficient VM Allocation at Scale with Latency-Driven Cache-Aware Scheduling · OSDI 2025 Hindsight Learning for MDPs with Exogenous Inputs · ICML 2023 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › sample efficiency
sample-efficient reinforcement learning |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Hindsight Learning for MDPs with Exogenous Inputs · ICML 2023 |
Electronic design automation › high-level synthesis
scheduling |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Kamino: Efficient VM Allocation at Scale with Latency-Driven Cache-Aware Scheduling · OSDI 2025 |
Cloud and datacenter computing
cluster resource management and scheduling |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | Hindsight Learning for MDPs with Exogenous Inputs · ICML 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
hindsight learning · 1.3counterfactual reasoning · 1.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Kamino: Efficient VM Allocation at Scale with Latency-Driven Cache-Aware Scheduling
David Domingo, Hugo Barbalho, Marco Molinaro 0004, Abhisek Pan, David Dion, Thomas Moscibroda, Sudarsun Kannan, Ishai Menache |
OSDI | 2 |
| 2023 | Hindsight Learning for MDPs with Exogenous InputsabstractMany resource management problems require sequential decision-making under uncertainty, where the only uncertainty affecting the decision outcomes are exogenous variables outside the control of the decision-maker. We model these problems as Exo-MDPs (Markov Decision Processes with Exogenous Inputs) and design a class of data-efficient algorithms for them termed Hindsight Learning (HL). Our HL algorithms achieve data efficiency by leveraging a key insight: having samples of the exogenous variables, past decisions can be revisited in hindsight to infer counterfactual consequences that can accelerate policy improvements. We compare HL against classic baselines in the multi-secretary and airline revenue management problems. We also scale our algorithms to a business-critical cloud resource management problem – allocating Virtual Machines (VMs) to physical machines, and simulate their performance with real datasets from a large public cloud provider. We find that HL algorithms outperform domain-specific heuristics, as well as state-of-the-art reinforcement learning methods. Sean R. Sinclair, Felipe Vieira Frujeri, Ching-An Cheng, Luke Marshall, Hugo Barbalho, Jennifer Neville, Ishai Menache, Adith Swaminathan |
ICML | 5 |