Publications

2024

1. IWQoS

   CPM: A Cross-layer Power Management Facility to Enable Highly-efficient Real-time AIoT Systems

   Xiaofeng Hou, Peng Tang, Tongqiao Xu, Cheng Xu, Chao Li, and Minyi Guo

   In IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{iwqos2024,
     abbr = {IWQoS},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {CPM: A Cross-layer Power Management Facility to Enable Highly-efficient Real-time AIoT Systems},
     author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Tang, Peng and Xu, Tongqiao and Xu, Cheng and Li, Chao and Guo, Minyi},
     booktitle = {IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service},
     year = {2024}
   }

2. VLDB

   FlowWalker: A Memory-efficient and High-performance GPU-based Dynamic Graph Random Walk Framework

   Junyi Mei, Shixuan Sun, Chao Li, Cheng Xu, Cheng Chen, Yibo Liu, Jing Wang, Cheng Zhao, Xiaofeng Hou, Minyi Guo, Bingsheng He, and Xiaoliang Cong

   In Proceedings of the 50th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{meivldb2024,
     abbr = {VLDB},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {FlowWalker: A Memory-efficient and High-performance GPU-based Dynamic Graph Random Walk Framework},
     author = {Mei, Junyi and Sun, Shixuan and Li, Chao and Xu, Cheng and Chen, Cheng and Liu, Yibo and Wang, Jing and Zhao, Cheng and Hou, Xiaofeng and Guo, Minyi and He, Bingsheng and Cong, Xiaoliang},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 50th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases},
     year = {2024}
   }

3. ISCA

   A Tale of Two Domains: Exploring Efficient Architecture Design for Truly Autonomous Things

   Xiaofeng Hou, Tongqiao Xu, Chao Li, Cheng Xu, Jiacheng Liu, Yang Hu, Jieru Zhao, Jingwen Leng, Kwang-ting Cheng, and Minyi Guo

   In Proceedings of the 51st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{xuisca2024,
     abbr = {ISCA},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     selected = {true},
     title = {A Tale of Two Domains: Exploring Efficient Architecture Design for Truly Autonomous Things},
     author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Xu, Tongqiao and Li, Chao and Xu, Cheng and Liu, Jiacheng and Hu, Yang and Zhao, Jieru and Leng, Jingwen and Cheng, Kwang-ting and Guo, Minyi},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 51st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture},
     year = {2024}
   }

4. ICME

   M2SN : Adaptive and Dynamic Multi-modal Shortcut Network Architecture for Latency-aware Applications

   Yifei Pu, Chi Wang, Xiaofeng Hou, Cheng Xu, Jiacheng Liu, Jing Wang, Minyi Guo, and Chao Li

   In IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{Puicme2024,
     abbr = {ICME},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {M2SN : Adaptive and Dynamic Multi-modal Shortcut Network Architecture for Latency-aware Applications},
     author = {Pu, Yifei and Wang, Chi and Hou, Xiaofeng and Xu, Cheng and Liu, Jiacheng and Wang, Jing and Guo, Minyi and Li, Chao},
     booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo},
     year = {2024}
   }

5. IPDPS

   CoCG: Fine-grained Cloud Game Co-location on Heterogeneous Platform

   Taolei Wang, Jing Wang, Chao Li, Cheng Xu, and Xiaofeng Hou

   In Proceedings of the 38th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture 2024

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   @inproceedings{wangipdps2024,
     abbr = {IPDPS},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {CoCG: Fine-grained Cloud Game Co-location on Heterogeneous Platform},
     author = {Wang, Taolei and Wang, Jing and Li, Chao and Xu, Cheng and Hou, Xiaofeng},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 38th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture},
     year = {2024}
   }

6. ICDE

   Graph Contrastive Learning for Truth Inferencec

   Hao Liu*, Jiacheng Liu*, Feilong Tang, Peng Li, Long Chen, Jiadi Yu, Yanmin Zhu, Min Gao, Yanqi Yang, and Xiaofeng Hou

   In IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{liuicde2023,
     abbr = {ICDE},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Graph Contrastive Learning for Truth Inferencec},
     author = {Liu*, Hao and Liu*, Jiacheng and Tang, Feilong and Li, Peng and Chen, Long and Yu, Jiadi and Zhu, Yanmin and Gao, Min and Yang, Yanqi and Hou, Xiaofeng},
     booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering},
     year = {2024}
   }

2023

1. SCIS

   Power Synchronization: Taming Massive Diversified Serverless Functions under Power Constraints

   Lu Zhang, Du Liu, Yecheng Xu, Xinkai Wang, Lingyu Sun, Yifei Pu, Xiaofeng Hou, Chao Li, and Minyi Guo

   In Science China Information Sciences 2023
2. RTSS

   SMG: A System-level Modality Gating Facility for Fast and Energy-Efficient Multimodal Computing

   Xiaofeng Hou, Peng Tang, Chao Li, Jiacheng Liu, Cheng Xu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, and Minyi Guo

   In IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium 2023

   Bib

   @inproceedings{hou2023rtss,
     abbr = {RTSS},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     selected = {true},
     title = {SMG: A System-level Modality Gating Facility for Fast and Energy-Efficient Multimodal Computing},
     author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Tang, Peng and Li, Chao and Liu, Jiacheng and Xu, Cheng and Cheng, Kwang-Ting and Guo, Minyi},
     booktitle = {IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium},
     year = {2023}
   }

3. JSAC

   Practical Network Modeling Using Weak Supervision Signals for Human-Centric Networking in Metaverse

   Jiacheng Liu, Feilong Tang, Zhijian Zheng, Hao Liu, Xiaofeng Hou, Long Chen, Ming Gao, Jiadi Yu, and Yanmin Zhu

   IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2023

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   @article{LiuJSCA2023,
     abbr = {JSAC},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Practical Network Modeling Using Weak Supervision Signals for Human-Centric Networking in Metaverse},
     author = {Liu, Jiacheng and Tang, Feilong and Zheng, Zhijian and Liu, Hao and Hou, Xiaofeng and Chen, Long and Gao, Ming and Yu, Jiadi and Zhu, Yanmin},
     journal = {IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications,},
     year = {2023}
   }

4. SoCC

   Not All Resources are Visible: Exploiting Fragmented Shadow Resources in Shared-State Scheduler Architecture

   Xinkai Wang*, Hao He*, Yuancheng Li*, Chao Li, Xiaofeng Hou, Jing Wang, Quan Chen, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, and Leibo Wang

   ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2023

   Bib

   @article{WangSoCC,
     abbr = {SoCC},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Not All Resources are Visible: Exploiting Fragmented Shadow  Resources in Shared-State Scheduler Architecture},
     author = {Wang*, Xinkai and He*, Hao and Li*, Yuancheng and Li, Chao and Hou, Xiaofeng and Wang, Jing and Chen, Quan and Leng, Jingwen and Guo, Minyi and Wang, Leibo},
     journal = {ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing,},
     year = {2023}
   }

5. ECAI

   Label Aggregation with Self-Supervision Enhanced Graph Transformer

   Jiacheng Liu, Feilong Tang, and Xiaofeng Hou

   European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023

   Bib

   @article{LiuECAI,
     abbr = {ECAI},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Label Aggregation with Self-Supervision Enhanced Graph Transformer},
     author = {Liu, Jiacheng and Tang, Feilong and Hou, Xiaofeng},
     journal = {European Conference on Artificial Intelligence,},
     year = {2023}
   }

6. IISWC

   MMBench: Benchmarking End-to-End Multi-modal DNNs and Understanding Their Hardware-Software Implications

   Cheng Xu, Xiaofeng Hou, Jiacheng Liu, Chao Li, Tianhao Huang, Xiaozhi Zhu, Mo Niu, Lingyu Sun, Peng Tang, Tongqiao Xu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, and Minyi Guo

   IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, 2023

   Bib

   @article{xu2022mmbench,
     abbr = {IISWC},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {MMBench: Benchmarking End-to-End Multi-modal DNNs and Understanding Their Hardware-Software Implications},
     author = {Xu, Cheng and Hou, Xiaofeng and Liu, Jiacheng and Li, Chao and Huang, Tianhao and Zhu, Xiaozhi and Niu, Mo and Sun, Lingyu and Tang, Peng and Xu, Tongqiao and Cheng, Kwang-Ting and Guo, Minyi},
     journal = {IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization,},
     year = {2023}
   }

7. Euro-Par Best Paper Nominate

   MMExit: Enabling Fast and Efficient Multi-modal DNN Inference with Adaptive Network Exits

   Xiaofeng Hou, Jiacheng Liu, Xuehan Tang, Chao Li, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Li Li, and Minyi Guo

   In European Conference on Parallel Processing, 2023

   Bib

   @inproceedings{hou2023mmexit,
     abbr = {Euro-Par},
     awd = {Best Paper Nominate},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     selected = {true},
     title = {MMExit: Enabling Fast and Efficient Multi-modal DNN Inference with Adaptive Network Exits},
     author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Liu, Jiacheng and Tang, Xuehan and Li, Chao and Cheng, Kwang-Ting and Li, Li and Guo, Minyi},
     booktitle = {European Conference on Parallel Processing,},
     year = {2023}
   }

8. ISCA

   Architecting Efficient Multi-modal AIoT Systems

   Xiaofeng Hou, Jiacheng Liu, Xuehan Tang, Chao Li, Jia Chen, Luhong Liang, Kwang-Ting Cheng, and Minyi Guo

   In Proceedings of the 50th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture 2023

   Bib

   @inproceedings{hou2023architecting,
     abbr = {ISCA},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     selected = {true},
     title = {Architecting Efficient Multi-modal AIoT Systems},
     author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Liu, Jiacheng and Tang, Xuehan and Li, Chao and Chen, Jia and Liang, Luhong and Cheng, Kwang-Ting and Guo, Minyi},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 50th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture},
     year = {2023}
   }

9. TC

   Optimizing GPU-based Graph Sampling and Random Walk for Efficiency and Scalability

   Pengyu Wang, Cheng Xu, Chao Li, Jing Wang, Taolei Wang, Lu Zhang, Xiaofeng Hou, and Minyi Guo

   IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2023

   Bib

   @article{wangl2023optimizing,
     abbr = {TC},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Optimizing GPU-based Graph Sampling and Random Walk for Efficiency and Scalability},
     author = {Wang, Pengyu and Xu, Cheng and Li, Chao and Wang, Jing and Wang, Taolei and Zhang, Lu and Hou, Xiaofeng and Guo, Minyi},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Computers,},
     year = {2023}
   }

10. PPoPP

    CoWalker: High-Throughput GPU Random Walk with Fine-tuned Concurrent Query Processing (Poster)

    Cheng Xu, Chao Li, Pengyu Wang, Xiaofeng Hou, Jing Wang, Shixuan Sun, Minyi Guo, Hanqing Wu, Dongbai Chen, and Xiangwen Liu

    In ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, 2023

    Bib

    @inproceedings{xu2023high,
      abbr = {PPoPP},
      bibtex_show = {true},
      title = {CoWalker: High-Throughput GPU Random Walk with Fine-tuned Concurrent Query Processing (Poster)},
      author = {Xu, Cheng and Li, Chao and Wang, Pengyu and Hou, Xiaofeng and Wang, Jing and Sun, Shixuan and Guo, Minyi and Wu, Hanqing and Chen, Dongbai and Liu, Xiangwen},
      booktitle = {ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming,},
      year = {2023}
    }

2022

1. IEEE CAL

   Characterizing and Understanding End-to-End Multi-modal Neural Networks on GPUs

   Xiaofeng Hou*, Cheng Xu*, Jiacheng Liu, Xuehan Tang, Lingyu Sun, Chao Li, and Kwang-Ting Cheng

   IEEE Computer Architecture Letter, 2022

   Bib

   @article{hou2022characterizing,
     abbr = {IEEE CAL},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Characterizing and Understanding End-to-End Multi-modal Neural Networks on GPUs},
     author = {Hou*, Xiaofeng and Xu*, Cheng and Liu, Jiacheng and Tang, Xuehan and Sun, Lingyu and Li, Chao and Cheng, Kwang-Ting},
     journal = {IEEE Computer Architecture Letter,},
     year = {2022}
   }

2. IPDPS

   Enabling Efficient Request Management through Microservice Level Parallelism

   Xinkai Wang, Chao Li, Lu Zhang, Xiaofeng Hou, Quan Chen, and Minyi Guo

   In IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2022

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   @inproceedings{wang2022exploring,
     abbr = {IPDPS},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Enabling Efficient Request Management through Microservice Level Parallelism},
     author = {Wang, Xinkai and Li, Chao and Zhang, Lu and Hou, Xiaofeng and Chen, Quan and Guo, Minyi},
     booktitle = {IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium,},
     year = {2022}
   }

3. FCS

   Performance Optimization for Cloud Computing Systems in the Microservice Era: State-of-the-Art and Research Opportunities

   Rong Zeng, Xiaofeng Hou, Wenli Zheng, and Minyi Guo

   Frontiers of Computer Science 2022

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   @article{zeng2022performance,
     abbr = {FCS},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Performance Optimization for Cloud Computing Systems in the Microservice Era: State-of-the-Art and Research Opportunities},
     author = {Zeng, Rong and Hou, Xiaofeng and Zheng, Wenli and Guo, Minyi},
     journal = {Frontiers of Computer Science},
     year = {2022}
   }

2021

1. TC

   Tapping into NFV Environment for Opportunistic Serverless Edge Function Deployment

   Lu Zhang, Weiqi Feng, Chao Li, Xiaofeng Hou, Pengyu Wang, Jing Wang, and Minyi Guo

   IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2021

   Bib

   @article{zhang2021tapping,
     abbr = {TC},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Tapping into NFV Environment for Opportunistic Serverless Edge Function Deployment},
     author = {Zhang, Lu and Feng, Weiqi and Li, Chao and Hou, Xiaofeng and Wang, Pengyu and Wang, Jing and Guo, Minyi},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Computers,},
     year = {2021}
   }

2. ArXiv

   DataCLUE: A Benchmark Suite for Data-centric NLP

   Jiacheng Liu, Liang Xu, Xiang Pan, Xiaojing Lu, and Xiaofeng Hou

   2021

   Bib

   @article{xu2021dataclue,
     abbr = {ArXiv},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {DataCLUE: A Benchmark Suite for Data-centric NLP},
     author = {Liu, Jiacheng and Xu, Liang and Pan, Xiang and Lu, Xiaojing and Hou, Xiaofeng},
     year = {2021}
   }

3. IPDPS

   AlphaR: Learning-Powered Resource Management for Irregular, Dynamic Microservice Graph

   Xiaofeng Hou, Chao Li, Jiacheng Liu, Lu Zhang, Shaolei Ren, Jingwen Leng, Quan Chen, and Minyi Guo

   In IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2021

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   @inproceedings{hou2021alphar,
     abbr = {IPDPS},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {AlphaR: Learning-Powered Resource Management for Irregular, Dynamic Microservice Graph},
     author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Li, Chao and Liu, Jiacheng and Zhang, Lu and Ren, Shaolei and Leng, Jingwen and Chen, Quan and Guo, Minyi},
     booktitle = {IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)},
     year = {2021}
   }

2020

1. SC

   ANT-man: Towards Agile Power Management in the Microservice Era

   Xiaofeng Hou, Chao Li, Jiacheng Liu, Lu Zhang, Yang Hu, and Minyi Guo

   In International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 2020

   Bib

   @inproceedings{hou2020ant,
     abbr = {SC},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     selected = {true},
     title = {ANT-man: Towards Agile Power Management in the Microservice Era},
     author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Li, Chao and Liu, Jiacheng and Zhang, Lu and Hu, Yang and Guo, Minyi},
     booktitle = {International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis,},
     year = {2020}
   }

2. AAAI

   Fine-Grained Machine Teaching with Attention Modeling

   Jiacheng Liu, Xiaofeng Hou, and Feilong Tang

   In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020

   Bib

   @inproceedings{liu2020fine,
     abbr = {AAAI},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     selected = {true},
     title = {Fine-Grained Machine Teaching with Attention Modeling},
     author = {Liu, Jiacheng and Hou, Xiaofeng and Tang, Feilong},
     booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence,},
     year = {2020}
   }

3. TCC

   Integrated Power Anomaly Defense: Towards Oversubscription-Safe Data Centers

   Xiaofeng Hou, Chao Li, Jinghang Yang, Wenli Zheng, Xiaoyao Liang, and Minyi Guo

   IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing 2020

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   @article{hou2020integrated,
     abbr = {TCC},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Integrated Power Anomaly Defense: Towards Oversubscription-Safe Data Centers},
     author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Li, Chao and Yang, Jinghang and Zheng, Wenli and Liang, Xiaoyao and Guo, Minyi},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing},
     year = {2020}
   }

2019

1. ICPP

   When Power Oversubscription Meets Traffic Flood Attack: Re-Thinking Data Center Peak Load Management

   Xiaofeng Hou, Mingyu Liang, Chao Li, Wenli Zheng, Quan Chen, and Minyi Guo

   In International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2019

   Bib

   @inproceedings{hou2019power,
     abbr = {ICPP},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {When Power Oversubscription Meets Traffic Flood Attack: Re-Thinking Data Center Peak Load Management},
     author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Liang, Mingyu and Li, Chao and Zheng, Wenli and Chen, Quan and Guo, Minyi},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Parallel Processing,},
     year = {2019}
   }

2. ICPP

   Unleashing the Scalability Potential of Power-Constrained Data Center in the Microservice Era

   Xiaofeng Hou, Jiacheng Liu, Chao Li, and Minyi Guo

   In International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2019

   Bib

   @inproceedings{hou2019unleashing,
     abbr = {ICPP},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Unleashing the Scalability Potential of Power-Constrained Data Center in the Microservice Era},
     author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Liu, Jiacheng and Li, Chao and Guo, Minyi},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Parallel Processing,},
     year = {2019}
   }

2018

1. ICCD Best Paper Award

   Power Grab in Aggressively Provisioned Data Centers: What is the Risk and What Can Be Done About It

   Xiaofeng Hou, Luoyao Hao, Chao Li, Quan Chen, Wenli Zheng, and Minyi Guo

   In International Conference on Computer Design, 2018

   Bib

   @inproceedings{hou2018power,
     abbr = {ICCD},
     awd = {Best Paper Award},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     selected = {true},
     title = {Power Grab in Aggressively Provisioned Data Centers: What is the Risk and What Can Be Done About It},
     author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Hao, Luoyao and Li, Chao and Chen, Quan and Zheng, Wenli and Guo, Minyi},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Computer Design,},
     year = {2018}
   }

2016

1. ISCA

   Power Attack Defense: Securing Battery-Backed Data Centers

   Chao Li, Zhenhua Wang*, Xiaofeng Hou*, Haopeng Chen, Xiaoyao Liang, and Minyi Guo

   International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2016

   Bib

   @article{li2016power,
     abbr = {ISCA},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     selected = {true},
     title = {Power Attack Defense: Securing Battery-Backed Data Centers},
     author = {Li, Chao and Wang*, Zhenhua and Hou*, Xiaofeng and Chen, Haopeng and Liang, Xiaoyao and Guo, Minyi},
     journal = {International Symposium on Computer Architecture,},
     year = {2016}
   }

2. JCRD

   Green Hierarchical Management for Distributed Datacenter Containers

   Xiaofeng Hou, Pengtao Song, Weichao Tang, Chao Li, and Xiaoyao Liang

   Journal of Computer Research and Development, 2016

   Bib

   @article{HouJCRD00,
     abbr = {JCRD},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     title = {Green Hierarchical Management for Distributed Datacenter Containers},
     author = {Hou, Xiaofeng and Song, Pengtao and Tang, Weichao and Li, Chao and Liang, Xiaoyao},
     journal = {Journal of Computer Research and Development,},
     year = {2016}
   }