Yunkai Liang

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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University, advised by Zhi Zhou. Before that, I received my B.S. degree in software engineering from Sun Yat-sen University. My research interests include machine learning systems, distributed systems, and cloud computing. I am currently working as a research intern in machine learning systems at Huawei Cloud, supervised by Dr. Pengfei Zuo.

Publications

2025

  1. Injecting Adrenaline into LLM Serving: Boosting Resource Utilization and Throughput via Attention Disaggregation
    Yunkai Liang, Zhangyu Chen, Pengfei Zuo, Zhi Zhou, Xu Chen, and Zhou Yu
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.20552, 2025
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2024

  1. (Poster) PipeDecode: Efficient LLM Inference using Pipelines within Decoding
    Yunkai Liang, Bin Gao, Pengfei Zuo, Zhi Zhou, and Xu Chen
    In 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 24), 2024
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2023

  1. (Workshop) EdgeOrcher: Predictive Function Orchestration for Serverless-Based Edge Native Applications
    Yunkai Liang, Zhi Zhou, and Xu Chen
    In 2023 IEEE 43rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2023

Serving

  • Reviewer: DPCS’24
  • External Reviewer: Eurosys’26, NSDI’25, NAS’24