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Yifeng Dong

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arXiv2026

ByteHouse: ByteDance's Cloud-Native Data Warehouse for Real-Time Multimodal Data Analytics

With the rapid rise of intelligent data services, modern enterprises increasingly require efficient, multimodal, and cost-effective data analytics infrastructures. However, in ByteDance's production environments, existing systems fall short due to limitations such as I/O-inefficient multimodal storage, inflexible query optimization (e.g., failing to optimize multimodal access patterns), and performance degradation caused by resource disaggregation (e.g., loss of data locality in remote storage). To address these challenges, we introduce ByteHouse (https://bytehouse.cloud), a cloud-native data warehouse designed for real-time multimodal data analytics. The storage layer integrates a unified table engine that provides a two-tier logical abstraction and physically consistent layout, SSD-backed cluster-scale cache (CrossCache) that supports shared caching across compute nodes, and virtual file system (NexusFS) that enable efficient local access on compute nodes. The compute layer supports analytical, batch, and incremental execution modes, with tailored optimizations for hybrid queries (e.g., runtime filtering over tiered vector indexes). The control layer coordinates global metadata and transactions, and features an effective optimizer enhanced by historical execution traces and AI-assisted plan selection. Evaluations on internal and standard workloads show that ByteHouse achieves significant efficiency improvement over existing systems.

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arXiv2025

Polymer-inspired mechanical metamaterials

Metamaterials benefit from unique architected patterns to achieve lightweight with exceptional mechanical properties inaccessible to conventional materials. Typical mechanical metamaterials are inspired by crystal-like lattice structures, whose closely packed frameworks often exhibit a rigid mechanical nature. Here, we present polymer-inspired metamaterials (PIMs) by programming deformation and strengthening mechanisms that mimic the mechanical roles of key constituent elements in polymer networks. By combining metamaterial programmability with polymer-inspired structures, we design crosslinking, proto-crystalline order, and entanglement in PIMs to enable macroscale strengthening mechanisms inspired by crosslink, molecular-density, and pre-stretch strengthening in polymers, expanding the metamaterial structure-property design space. This macroscale polymer-inspired programmability also suggests that PIMs could serve as a design platform incorporating the programmability strategies to achieve desired deformation and strengthening responses, holding a potential for applications in soft robotic joints and compliant connectors.

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arXiv2024

ByteCard: Enhancing ByteDance's Data Warehouse with Learned Cardinality Estimation

Cardinality estimation is a critical component and a longstanding challenge in modern data warehouses. ByteHouse, ByteDance's cloud-native engine for extensive data analysis in exabyte-scale environments, serves numerous internal decision-making business scenarios. With the increasing demand for ByteHouse, cardinality estimation becomes the bottleneck for efficiently processing queries. Specifically, the existing query optimizer of ByteHouse uses the traditional Selinger-like cardinality estimator, which can produce substantial estimation errors, resulting in suboptimal query plans. To improve cardinality estimation accuracy while maintaining a practical inference overhead, we develop a framework ByteCard that enables efficient training and integration of learned cardinality estimators. Furthermore, ByteCard adapts recent advances in cardinality estimation to build models that can balance accuracy and practicality (e.g., inference latency, model size, training overhead). We observe significant query processing speed-up in ByteHouse after replacing the existing cardinality estimator with ByteCard for several optimization scenarios. Evaluations on real-world datasets show the integration of ByteCard leads to an improvement of up to 30% in the 99th quantile of latency. At last, we share our valuable experience in engineering advanced cardinality estimators. This experience can help ByteHouse integrate more learning-based solutions on the critical query execution path in the future.

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