I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 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
Mar 1, 2025
I am am happy to share that I will be joining Microsoft as a research intern this summer.
Feb 19, 2025
I am honored to receive the SIGSOFT CAPS Travel Support.
Feb 3, 2025
I am honored to receive the Amazon PhD Fellowship!
📃 Selected Papers
Pre-print
Universal Checkpointing: Efficient and Flexible Checkpointing for Large Scale Distributed Training
Xinyu Lian, Sam Ade Jacobs, Lev Kurilenko, Masahiro Tanaka, Stas Bekman, Olatunji Ruwase, and Minjia Zhang
arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.18820. 2024
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
@article{lian2024ucp,title={Universal Checkpointing: Efficient and Flexible Checkpointing for Large Scale Distributed Training},author={Lian, Xinyu and Jacobs, Sam Ade and Kurilenko, Lev and Tanaka, Masahiro and Bekman, Stas and Ruwase, Olatunji and Zhang, Minjia},journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.18820},year={2024},highlight1={Adopted by Microsoft for Phi-3.5-MoE (42B) Pre-Training},highlight2={Adopted by BigScience for BLOOM (176B) Pre-Training},highlight3={Adopted by UC Berkeley for SmileyLlama (8B) Fine-Tuning}}
@inproceedings{lian2025ciri,title={Large Language Models as Configuration Validators},author={Lian, Xinyu and Chen, Yinfang and Cheng, Runxiang and Huang, Jie and Thakkar, Parth and Zhang, Minjia and Xu, Tianyin},booktitle={Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering},year={2025},available={},reusable={},functional={},artifact={https://github.com/xlab-uiuc/ciri}}
FSE’24
Ctest4J: A Practical Configuration Testing Framework for Java
@inproceedings{wang2024ctest4j,title={Ctest4J: A Practical Configuration Testing Framework for Java},author={Wang, Shuai and Lian, Xinyu and Li, Qingyu and Marinov, Darko and Xu, Tianyin},year={2024},booktitle={Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Demo Papers},series={FSE Demo 2024},artifact={https://github.com/xlab-uiuc/ctest4j}}
@inproceedings{wang2023urts,title={Test Selection for Unified Regression Testing},author={Wang, Shuai and Lian, Xinyu and Marinov, Darko and Xu, Tianyin},year={2023},booktitle={Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering},location={Melbourne, Australia},series={ICSE 2023},doi={10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00145},available={},reusable={},artifact={https://github.com/xlab-uiuc/uRTS-ae}}