| 2026 | AAAI | SERL: Self-Examining Reinforcement Learning on Open-Domain. | Weixuan Ou, Yanzhao Zheng, Shuoshuo Sun, Wei Zhang, Baohua Dong, Hangcheng Zhu, Ruohui Huang, Gang Yu, Pengwei Yan, Yifan Qiao |
| 2026 | AAAI | Balancing Signal and Variance: Adaptive Offline RL Post-Training for VLA Flow Models. | Hongyin Zhang, Shiyuan Zhang, Junxi Jin, Qixin Zeng, Yifan Qiao, Hongchao Lu, Donglin Wang |
| 2026 | ASPLOS | BlendServe: Optimizing Offline Inference with Resource-Aware Batching. | Yilong Zhao, Shuo Yang, Kan Zhu, Lianmin Zheng, Baris Kasikci, Yifan Qiao, Yang Zhou, Jiarong Xing, Ion Stoica |
| 2026 | SIGMETRICS | UniCache: Unifying Prefix Cache Eviction for Heterogeneous LLM Serving Workloads. | Bei Ouyang, Yifan Qiao, Jiarong Xing |
| 2025 | ECIR | LSTM-Based Selective Dense Text Retrieval Guided by Sparse Lexical Retrieval. | Yingrui Yang, Parker Carlson, Yifan Qiao, Wentai Xie, Shanxiu He, Tao Yang |
| 2025 | HOTNETS | Lost in Translation: The Search for Meaning in Network-Attached AI Accelerator Disaggregation. | Jaewan Hong, Yifan Qiao, Soujanya Ponnapalli, Shu Liu, Marcos K. Aguilera, Vincent Liu, Christopher J. Rossbach, Ion Stoica |
| 2025 | SIGIR | Low-Cost Document Retrieval with Dense Pseudo-Query Encoding. | Shanxiu He, Wentai Xie, Yifan Qiao, Parker Carlson, Tao Yang |
| 2025 | SOSP | PrefillOnly: An Inference Engine for Prefill-only Workloads in Large Language Model Applications. | Kuntai Du, Bowen Wang, Chen Zhang, Yiming Cheng, Qing Lan, Hejian Sang, Yihua Cheng, Jiayi Yao, Xiaoxuan Liu, Yifan Qiao, Ion Stoica, Junchen Jiang |
| 2025 | SOSP | Orthrus: Efficient and Timely Detection of Silent User Data Corruption in the Cloud with Resource-Adaptive Computation Validation. | Chenxiao Liu, Zhenting Zhu, Quanxi Li, Yanwen Xia, Yifan Qiao, Xiangyun Deng, Youyou Lu, Tao Xie, Huimin Cui, Zidong Du, Harry Xu, Chenxi Wang |
| 2024 | ECIR | On-Device Query Auto-completion for Email Search. | Yifan Qiao, Otto Godwin, Hua Ouyang |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Threshold-driven Pruning with Segmented Maximum Term Weights for Approximate Cluster-based Sparse Retrieval. | Yifan Qiao, Parker Carlson, Shanxiu He, Yingrui Yang, Tao Yang |
| 2024 | NSDI | Harvesting Idle Memory for Application-managed Soft State with Midas. | Yifan Qiao, Zhenyuan Ruan, Haoran Ma, Adam Belay, Miryung Kim, Harry Xu |
| 2024 | OSDI | A Tale of Two Paths: Toward a Hybrid Data Plane for Efficient Far-Memory Applications. | Lei Chen, Shi Liu, Chenxi Wang, Haoran Ma, Yifan Qiao, Zhe Wang, Chenggang Wu, Youyou Lu, Xiaobing Feng, Huimin Cui, Shan Lu, Harry Xu |
| 2024 | OSDI | DRust: Language-Guided Distributed Shared Memory with Fine Granularity, Full Transparency, and Ultra Efficiency. | Haoran Ma, Yifan Qiao, Shi Liu, Shan Yu, Yuanjiang Ni, Qingda Lu, Jiesheng Wu, Yiying Zhang, Miryung Kim, Harry Xu |
| 2024 | SIGIR | Cluster-based Partial Dense Retrieval Fused with Sparse Text Retrieval. | Yingrui Yang, Parker Carlson, Shanxiu He, Yifan Qiao, Tao Yang |
| 2024 | SIGIR | Weighted KL-Divergence for Document Ranking Model Refinement. | Yingrui Yang, Yifan Qiao, Shanxiu He, Tao Yang |
| 2023 | ICTIR | Balanced Knowledge Distillation with Contrastive Learning for Document Re-ranking. | Yingrui Yang, Shanxiu He, Yifan Qiao, Wentai Xie, Tao Yang |
| 2023 | NSDI | Hermit: Low-Latency, High-Throughput, and Transparent Remote Memory via Feedback-Directed Asynchrony. | Yifan Qiao, Chenxi Wang, Zhenyuan Ruan, Adam Belay, Qingda Lu, Yiying Zhang, Miryung Kim, Guoqing Harry Xu |
| 2023 | NSDI | Bamboo: Making Preemptible Instances Resilient for Affordable Training of Large DNNs. | John Thorpe, Pengzhan Zhao, Jonathan Eyolfson, Yifan Qiao, Zhihao Jia, Minjia Zhang, Ravi Netravali, Guoqing Harry Xu |
| 2023 | NSDI | Canvas: Isolated and Adaptive Swapping for Multi-Applications on Remote Memory. | Chenxi Wang, Yifan Qiao, Haoran Ma, Shi Liu, Wenguang Chen, Ravi Netravali, Miryung Kim, Guoqing Harry Xu |
| 2023 | WWW | Optimizing Guided Traversal for Fast Learned Sparse Retrieval. | Yifan Qiao, Yingrui Yang, Haixin Lin, Tao Yang |
| 2023 | SIGIR | Representation Sparsification with Hybrid Thresholding for Fast SPLADE-based Document Retrieval. | Yifan Qiao, Yingrui Yang, Shanxiu He, Tao Yang |
| 2022 | ACL | Compact Token Representations with Contextual Quantization for Efficient Document Re-ranking. | Yingrui Yang, Yifan Qiao, Tao Yang |
| 2022 | FAST | Closing the B+-tree vs. LSM-tree Write Amplification Gap on Modern Storage Hardware with Built-in Transparent Compression. | Yifan Qiao, Xubin Chen, Ning Zheng, Jiangpeng Li, Yang Liu, Tong Zhang |
| 2022 | OSDI | MemLiner: Lining up Tracing and Application for a Far-Memory-Friendly Runtime. | Chenxi Wang, Haoran Ma, Shi Liu, Yifan Qiao, Jonathan Eyolfson, Christian Navasca, Shan Lu, Guoqing Harry Xu |
| 2022 | PLDI | Mako: a low-pause, high-throughput evacuating collector for memory-disaggregated datacenters. | Haoran Ma, Shi Liu, Chenxi Wang, Yifan Qiao, Michael D. Bond, Stephen M. Blackburn, Miryung Kim, Guoqing Harry Xu |
| 2022 | WSDM | Lightweight Composite Re-Ranking for Efficient Keyword Search with BERT. | Yingrui Yang, Yifan Qiao, Jinjin Shao, Xifeng Yan, Tao Yang |
| 2021 | DaMoN | KallaxDB: A Table-less Hash-based Key-Value Store on Storage Hardware with Built-in Transparent Compression. | Xubin Chen, Ning Zheng, Shukun Xu, Yifan Qiao, Yang Liu, Jiangpeng Li, Tong Zhang |
| 2021 | OSDI | Dorylus: Affordable, Scalable, and Accurate GNN Training with Distributed CPU Servers and Serverless Threads. | John Thorpe, Yifan Qiao, Jonathan Eyolfson, Shen Teng, Guanzhou Hu, Zhihao Jia, Jinliang Wei, Keval Vora, Ravi Netravali, Miryung Kim, Guoqing Harry Xu |
| 2021 | SIGIR | Window Navigation with Adaptive Probing for Executing BlockMax WAND. | Jinjin Shao, Yifan Qiao, Shiyu Ji, Tao Yang |
| 2020 | CIKM | Index Obfuscation for Oblivious Document Retrieval in a Trusted Execution Environment. | Jinjin Shao, Shiyu Ji, Alvin Oliver Glova, Yifan Qiao, Tao Yang, Tim Sherwood |
| 2020 | HPCC | On the Design of SMR HDD Block Device Driver. | Jingpeng Hao, Xubin Chen, Yifan Qiao, Yuyang Zhang, Tong Zhang |
| 2020 | ICDE | Design of Database Systems with DRAM-only Heterogeneous Memory Architecture. | Yifan Qiao |
| 2020 | SC | Architecting Heterogeneous Memory Systems with DRAM Technology Only: A Case Study on Relational Database. | Yifan Qiao, Xubin Chen, Jingpeng Hao, Tong Zhang, Changsheng Xie, Fei Wu |
| 2017 | CLUSTER | Algorithm-Directed Crash Consistence in Non-volatile Memory for HPC. | Shuo Yang, Kai Wu, Yifan Qiao, Dong Li, Jidong Zhai |