Xinyu Lian

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I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with Minjia Zhang. I study elastic and efficient machine learning systems, effective efficiency algorithms, and LLM applications for systems.

🙋 Feel free to reach out via email if you are interested in my research.


🔥 News

Apr 29, 2025 Our work on universal checkpointing has been accepted at USENIX ATC 2025!
Mar 1, 2025 I am am happy to share that I will be joining Microsoft as a research intern this summer.
Feb 3, 2025 I am honored to receive the Amazon PhD Fellowship!

📃 Selected Papers

  1. ATC’25
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    Universal Checkpointing: A Flexible and Efficient Distributed Checkpointing System for Large-Scale DNN Training with Reconfigurable Parallelism
    Xinyu Lian, Sam Ade Jacobs, Lev Kurilenko, Masahiro Tanaka, Stas Bekman, Olatunji Ruwase,  and Minjia Zhang
    Proceedings of the 2025 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 2025
    Adopted by Microsoft for Phi-3.5-MoE (42B) Pre-Training
    Adopted by BigScience for BLOOM (176B) Pre-Training
    Adopted by UC Berkeley for SmileyLlama (8B) Fine-Tuning
    Selected for Presentation by FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage 2025
    Selected for Presentation by PyTorch Day 2025
  2. ICSE’25
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    Large Language Models as Configuration Validators
    Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering. 2025
  3. FSE’24
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    Ctest4J: A Practical Configuration Testing Framework for Java
    Shuai WangXinyu Lian, Qingyu Li, Darko Marinov,  and Tianyin Xu
    Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Demo Papers. 2024
  4. ICSE’23
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    Test Selection for Unified Regression Testing
    Shuai WangXinyu LianDarko Marinov,  and Tianyin Xu
    Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering. 2023


🏖️ Service

Organizer: Brett Daniel Software Engineering Seminar
Program Committee: MSR'25
Journal Reviewer: TSE
Artifact Evaluation Committee: SOSP'24
Volunteer: ICSE'23 ICSE'25