Publications

1. SC’26
   Low-Overhead Silent Error Detection for Large Language Model Inference at Scale

   Abdullah Naveed, Mahina Sheikh, and Guanpeng Li

   [SC’26] International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis · Accepted; to appear

   Introduces TRACE, a selective activation-monitoring framework that detects silent data corruption across 15 large language models and 3 datasets with 95.3% average detection coverage and 0.56% runtime overhead.

2. SC’26
   Z-SPDK: Accelerating Lossy Compressed I/O on NVMe-SSDs

   Darren Ng, Abdullah Naveed, Duo Zhang, Guanpeng Li, Sheng Di, and Xiaoyi Lu

   [SC’26] International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis · Accepted; to appear

   Co-designs lossy compression and NVMe I/O using dual-pipeline parallelism and zero-copy transfers, delivering up to 12× speedup and 5.9× better bandwidth utilization.

3. SecDev’23
   Evaluating Container Debloaters

   Muhammad Hassan, Talha Tahir, Muhammad Farrukh, Abdullah Naveed, Anas Naeem, Fareed Zaffar, Fahad Shaon, Ashish Gehani, and Sazzadur Rahaman

   [SecDev’23] 2023 IEEE Secure Development Conference

   Introduces DebloatBench and evaluates container debloating tools across attack-surface reduction, CVE mitigation, image-size reduction, and execution correctness.

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