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Jiaxing Qi

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Can LLMs Really Recover Microservice Failures? A Recovery-Aware Evaluation of Diagnosis-to-Action Reasoning

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to interpret operational evidence and assist incident response in cloud-native microservice systems. However, recovery-oriented use cases require more than identifying a root cause. After observing symptoms and diagnosing a fault, an operator or agent must translate the diagnosis into a concrete recovery action, apply it to an admissible target, and verify that service health has been restored. Existing RCA and log-analysis evaluations are well-suited to diagnosis, but they do not characterize this subsequent action decision. This paper presents R2Act, a recovery-action evaluation framework for post-diagnosis incident response. R2Act defines an incident schema, quality gate, action-space representation, recovery-validity metrics, offline evaluator, and live-replay protocol. We instantiate the framework as a benchmark dataset of 302 quality-audited Kubernetes incidents from \system. Each incident provides synchronized multi-modal observations, root-cause labels, an incident-specific action space, and annotated valid and invalid recovery plans. We evaluate heuristic, supervised, RCA-oriented, deep log, and LLM-based methods. The strongest RAG-based LLMs reach 91.4\%--99.7\% root-cause service accuracy, yet their recovery validity remains only 36.8\%--60.3\%. Even when both the root-cause service and fault type are correct, recovery-oriented methods still choose invalid actions for 39.5\%--62.0\% of correctly diagnosed incidents. Overall, this work reveals that many recovery failures arise not from missing diagnostic knowledge, but from the difficulty of translating diagnostic evidence into valid recovery actions and admissible targets. This work provides a reproducible, simplified starting point for research and evaluation.

cs.SE

RATrain: A Resource-Aware Training Runtime for Large Language Models on Bandwidth-Constrained Heterogeneous Supercomputing Platforms

Production heterogeneous supercomputing platforms are increasingly used to host large language model (LLM) training workloads. However, existing GPU-oriented training runtimes typically rely on high-bandwidth device memory, fast interconnects, and mature collective communication libraries, making them difficult to directly adapt to MT-3000, a platform with an explicit memory hierarchy, limited usable DDR capacity, and constrained inter-cluster communication. This paper presents RATrain, a resource-aware training runtime for dense LLMs on bandwidth-constrained heterogeneous supercomputing platforms. RATrain formulates standard non-interleaved 1F1B training as a training-state lifecycle scheduling problem, and schedules gradient synchronization, parameter update, parameter-view prefetching, and activation recovery at layer-level and stage-local granularity. RATrain further combines an MT-3000-aware execution backend for efficient and predictable FP16 GEMM, Attention Backward, and explicit data movement with a resource-aware planner that selects feasible training configurations under the 20GB usable-DDR constraint per compute cluster. We implement RATrain on a real MT-3000 platform and evaluate it using LLaMA-2-7B, Baichuan2-13B, Qwen2.5-32B, and LLaMA-2-70B configurations. Results show that RATrain achieves up to 1.35$\times$ end-to-end speedup over MT-3000-adapted GPU-style training strategies. For LLaMA-2-7B, RATrain scales to 1024 compute clusters, reaches 112,790.55 tokens/s, and achieves 97.0\% scaling efficiency. A further 1.028B-token correctness run shows that RATrain preserves the loss trajectory of a semantically equivalent Baseline-1F1B run, with a maximum relative loss deviation of 0.081\%.

cs.DC

MotionEnhancer: Leveraging Video Diffusion for Motion-Enhanced Vision-Language Models

The new era has witnessed a remarkable capability to extend Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for tackling tasks of video understanding. While current VLMs excel at event- or story-level understanding, their ability to capture fine-grained motion details remains limited, primarily due to their focus on high-level static semantic structures and macro-event logic. In contrast, Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) are adept at modeling dynamic motion patterns, benefiting from large-scale video data and the intrinsic requirement of temporal generation. In this paper, we introduce MotionEnhancer, a novel approach that leverages motion priors distilled from a powerful video diffusion model as auxiliary supervision to enhance the motion understanding capability of a VLM via attention alignment. MotionEnhancer comprises two simple parameter-free modules, Motion-sensitive Head Selection (MHS) and Motion-salient Text Token Identification (MTTI), to directly extract and optimize motion-related attentions from the VDM in a computation-only manner. MotionEnhancer provides a scalable solution for motion understanding without additional training parameters, modifications to existing architectures, or tool calling. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MotionEnhancer can achieve consistent improvements over state-of-the-art VLMs on two motion-level video understanding benchmarks, especially on motion-related metrics.

cs.CV

Bandwidth-Aware LLM Inference on Heterogeneous Many-Core Supercomputers

Large language model (LLM) inference is limited by high computational cost and memory bandwidth demands, making deployment on heterogeneous many-core processors challenging. Taking the MT-3000 processor used in the Tianhe supercomputer as an example, its limited main-memory bandwidth and distributed memory hierarchy exemplify these bottlenecks, making it difficult to directly migrate existing GPU-based inference frameworks. To address this problem, we propose THInfer, a hardware-aware inference framework that maximizes data locality under bandwidth-constrained conditions through hardware-software co-design and parallel strategy optimization. THInfer incorporates three key techniques: (1) a high-performance operator library for the VLIW SIMD architecture, providing hand-optimized FP16 kernels that achieve up to 70 percent of the peak performance per cluster; (2) a density-driven computation graph fusion and unified kernel scheduling mechanism, combined with a staged pipelined attention fusion method; and (3) a Prefill-Buffer-Decode (P-B-D) pipeline and bounded buffer management strategy, which supports hybrid parallelism and enables efficient multi-cluster collaboration through two-level communication based on MPI and hthreads. Experiments on the Llama model series show that THInfer improves throughput on the 7B model by 62 percent to 73 percent over DeepSpeed on two V100S GPUs and by 67 percent to 84 percent over the A800 GPU. The 13B and 30B models also demonstrate comparable or better performance. Moreover, THInfer maintains stable performance on the 70B model, whereas typical GPU-based frameworks fail to run under the same setting. Overall, THInfer significantly enhances throughput, reduces latency, and improves scalability, providing a feasible system solution for efficient and scalable LLM inference on heterogeneous many-core architectures.

cs.DC

Spatial 3D-LLM: Exploring Spatial Awareness in 3D Vision-Language Models

New era has unlocked exciting possibilities for extending Large Language Models (LLMs) to tackle 3D vision-language tasks. However, most existing 3D multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) rely on compressing holistic 3D scene information or segmenting independent objects to perform these tasks, which limits their spatial awareness due to insufficient representation of the richness inherent in 3D scenes. To overcome these limitations, we propose Spatial 3D-LLM, a 3D MLLM specifically designed to enhance spatial awareness for 3D vision-language tasks by enriching the spatial embeddings of 3D scenes. Spatial 3D-LLM integrates an LLM backbone with a progressive spatial awareness scheme that progressively captures spatial information as the perception field expands, generating location-enriched 3D scene embeddings to serve as visual prompts. Furthermore, we introduce two novel tasks: 3D object distance measurement and 3D layout editing, and construct a 3D instruction dataset, MODEL, to evaluate the model's spatial awareness capabilities. Experimental results demonstrate that Spatial 3D-LLM achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of 3D vision-language tasks, revealing the improvements stemmed from our progressive spatial awareness scheme of mining more profound spatial information. Our code is available at https://github.com/bjshuyuan/Spatial-3D-LLM.

cs.CV

MMGDreamer: Mixed-Modality Graph for Geometry-Controllable 3D Indoor Scene Generation

Controllable 3D scene generation has extensive applications in virtual reality and interior design, where the generated scenes should exhibit high levels of realism and controllability in terms of geometry. Scene graphs provide a suitable data representation that facilitates these applications. However, current graph-based methods for scene generation are constrained to text-based inputs and exhibit insufficient adaptability to flexible user inputs, hindering the ability to precisely control object geometry. To address this issue, we propose MMGDreamer, a dual-branch diffusion model for scene generation that incorporates a novel Mixed-Modality Graph, visual enhancement module, and relation predictor. The mixed-modality graph allows object nodes to integrate textual and visual modalities, with optional relationships between nodes. It enhances adaptability to flexible user inputs and enables meticulous control over the geometry of objects in the generated scenes. The visual enhancement module enriches the visual fidelity of text-only nodes by constructing visual representations using text embeddings. Furthermore, our relation predictor leverages node representations to infer absent relationships between nodes, resulting in more coherent scene layouts. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that MMGDreamer exhibits superior control of object geometry, achieving state-of-the-art scene generation performance. Project page: https://yangzhifeio.github.io/project/MMGDreamer.

cs.CV

SeerAttention: Learning Intrinsic Sparse Attention in Your LLMs

Attention is the cornerstone of modern Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet its quadratic complexity hinders efficiency and scalability, especially for long-context processing. A promising approach is to leverage sparsity in attention. However, existing sparsity-based solutions predominantly rely on predefined patterns or heuristics at the attention head level, struggling to adapt dynamically to different contexts efficiently. We propose SeerAttention, a simple yet effective attention mechanism that directly learns the block-level attention sparsity from the LLM itself. Inspired by the gating mechanism in Mixture of Experts (MoE), SeerAttention augments the conventional attention with a learnable gate that selectively activates important blocks within the attention map. Specifically, the gate first pools the query (Q) and key (K) tensors along the sequence dimension and processes them through learnable linear layers. The resulting matrices are then multiplied together to produce the gating scores, which are used to predict block-level attention sparsity. Combined with our block-sparse FlashAttention kernel, SeerAttention can achieve significant speedup on GPUs. When applied to pre-trained LLMs, SeerAttention only requires training the gate parameters in a lightweight self-distillation manner, allowing rapid convergence. Our evaluation results demonstrate that SeerAttention achieves better model accuracy and lower latency for long-context pre-filling compared to prior methods. Code is available at: https://github.com/microsoft/SeerAttention

cs.CL

Beyond Window-Based Detection: A Graph-Centric Framework for Discrete Log Anomaly Detection

Detecting anomalies in discrete event logs is critical for ensuring system reliability, security, and efficiency. Traditional window-based methods for log anomaly detection often suffer from context bias and fuzzy localization, which hinder their ability to precisely and efficiently identify anomalies. To address these challenges, we propose a graph-centric framework, TempoLog, which leverages multi-scale temporal graph networks for discrete log anomaly detection. Unlike conventional methods, TempoLog constructs continuous-time dynamic graphs directly from event logs, eliminating the need for fixed-size window grouping. By representing log templates as nodes and their temporal relationships as edges, the framework dynamically captures both local and global dependencies across multiple temporal scales. Additionally, a semantic-aware model enhances detection by incorporating rich contextual information. Extensive experiments on public datasets demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in event-level anomaly detection, significantly outperforming existing approaches in both accuracy and efficiency.

cs.SE

Quantum Machine Learning in Log-based Anomaly Detection: Challenges and Opportunities

Log-based anomaly detection (LogAD) is the main component of Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps), which can detect anomalous that occur during the system on-the-fly. Existing methods commonly extract log sequence features using classical machine learning techniques to identify whether a new sequence is an anomaly or not. However, these classical approaches often require trade-offs between efficiency and accuracy. The advent of quantum machine learning (QML) offers a promising alternative. By transforming parts of classical machine learning computations into parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs), QML can significantly reduce the number of trainable parameters while maintaining accuracy comparable to classical counterparts. In this work, we introduce a unified framework, \ourframework{}, for evaluating QML models in the context of LogAD. This framework incorporates diverse log data, integrated QML models, and comprehensive evaluation metrics. State-of-the-art methods such as DeepLog, LogAnomaly, and LogRobust, along with their quantum-transformed counterparts, are included in our framework.Beyond standard metrics like F1 score, precision, and recall, our evaluation extends to factors critical to QML performance, such as specificity, the number of circuits, circuit design, and quantum state encoding. Using \ourframework{}, we conduct extensive experiments to assess the performance of these models and their quantum counterparts, uncovering valuable insights and paving the way for future research in QML model selection and design for LogAD.

cs.LG

LogGPT: Exploring ChatGPT for Log-Based Anomaly Detection

The increasing volume of log data produced by software-intensive systems makes it impractical to analyze them manually. Many deep learning-based methods have been proposed for log-based anomaly detection. These methods face several challenges such as high-dimensional and noisy log data, class imbalance, generalization, and model interpretability. Recently, ChatGPT has shown promising results in various domains. However, there is still a lack of study on the application of ChatGPT for log-based anomaly detection. In this work, we proposed LogGPT, a log-based anomaly detection framework based on ChatGPT. By leveraging the ChatGPT's language interpretation capabilities, LogGPT aims to explore the transferability of knowledge from large-scale corpora to log-based anomaly detection. We conduct experiments to evaluate the performance of LogGPT and compare it with three deep learning-based methods on BGL and Spirit datasets. LogGPT shows promising results and has good interpretability. This study provides preliminary insights into prompt-based models, such as ChatGPT, for the log-based anomaly detection task.

cs.LG

LogQA: Question Answering in Unstructured Logs

Modern systems produce a large volume of logs to record run-time status and events. System operators use these raw logs to track a system in order to obtain some useful information to diagnose system anomalies. One of the most important problems in this area is to help operators find the answers to log-based questions efficiently and user-friendly. In this work, we propose LogQA, which aims at answering log-based questions in the form of natural language based on large-scale unstructured log corpora. Our system presents the answer to a question directly instead of returning a list of relevant snippets, thus offering better user-friendliness and efficiency. LogQA represents the first approach to solve question answering in lod domain. LogQA has two key components: Log Retriever and Log Reader. Log Retriever aims at retrieving relevant logs w.r.t. a given question, while Log Reader is responsible for inferring the final answer. Given the lack of a public dataset for log questing answering, we manually labelled a QA dataset of three open-source log corpus and will make them publicly available. We evaluated our proposed model on these datasets by comparing its performance with 6 other baseline methods. Our experimental results demonstrate that LogQA has outperformed other baseline methods.

cs.NI

Efficient Incremental Text-to-Speech on GPUs

Incremental text-to-speech, also known as streaming TTS, has been increasingly applied to online speech applications that require ultra-low response latency to provide an optimal user experience. However, most of the existing speech synthesis pipelines deployed on GPU are still non-incremental, which uncovers limitations in high-concurrency scenarios, especially when the pipeline is built with end-to-end neural network models. To address this issue, we present a highly efficient approach to perform real-time incremental TTS on GPUs with Instant Request Pooling and Module-wise Dynamic Batching. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is capable of producing high-quality speech with a first-chunk latency lower than 80ms under 100 QPS on a single NVIDIA A10 GPU and significantly outperforms the non-incremental twin in both concurrency and latency. Our work reveals the effectiveness of high-performance incremental TTS on GPUs.

cs.SD

Extreme Scale-out SuperMUC Phase 2 - lessons learned

In spring 2015, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, LRZ), installed their new Peta-Scale System SuperMUC Phase2. Selected users were invited for a 28 day extreme scale-out block operation during which they were allowed to use the full system for their applications. The following projects participated in the extreme scale-out workshop: BQCD (Quantum Physics), SeisSol (Geophysics, Seismics), GPI-2/GASPI (Toolkit for HPC), Seven-League Hydro (Astrophysics), ILBDC (Lattice Boltzmann CFD), Iphigenie (Molecular Dynamic), FLASH (Astrophysics), GADGET (Cosmological Dynamics), PSC (Plasma Physics), waLBerla (Lattice Boltzmann CFD), Musubi (Lattice Boltzmann CFD), Vertex3D (Stellar Astrophysics), CIAO (Combustion CFD), and LS1-Mardyn (Material Science). The projects were allowed to use the machine exclusively during the 28 day period, which corresponds to a total of 63.4 million core-hours, of which 43.8 million core-hours were used by the applications, resulting in a utilization of 69%. The top 3 users were using 15.2, 6.4, and 4.7 million core-hours, respectively.

cs.DC

Implementation of the compact interpolation within the octree based Lattice Boltzmann solver Musubi

A sparse octree based parallel implementation of the lattice Boltzmann method for non-uniform meshes is presented in this paper. To couple grids of different resolutions, a second order accurate compact interpolation is employed and further extended into three dimensions. This compact interpolation requires only four source elements from the adjacent level for both two- and three dimensions. Thus, it reduces the computational and communication overhead in parallel executions. Moreover, the implementation of a weight based domain decomposition algorithm and level-wise elements arrangement are explained in details. The second order convergence of both velocity and strain rate are validated numerically in the Taylor-Green vortex test case. Additionally, the laminar flow around a cylinder at Re = 20, 100 and around a sphere at Re = 100 is investigated. Good agreement between simulated results and those from literature is observed, which provides further evidence for the accuracy of our method.

physics.comp-ph