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+venue: OSDI
+year: 2025
+papers:
+- title: 'Basilisk: Using Provenance Invariants to Automate Proofs of Undecidable Protocols'
+  authors:
+  - Tony Nuda Zhang
+  - Keshav Singh
+  - Tej Chajed
+  - Manos Kapritsos
+  - Bryan Parno
+  reason: "Automates the construction of correctness proofs for distributed protocols that were previously considered undecidable, advancing the state of the art in verified systems."
+- title: 'Mako: Speculative Distributed Transactions with Geo-Replication'
+  authors:
+  - Weihai Shen
+  - Yang Cui
+  - Siddhartha Sen 0001
+  - Sebastian Angel
+  - Shuai Mu 0001
+  reason: "Combines speculative execution with geo-replication to deliver low-latency distributed transactions without sacrificing consistency, addressing a fundamental tension in wide-area systems."
+- title: Low End-to-End Latency atop a Speculative Shared Log with Fix-Ante Ordering
+  authors:
+  - Shreesha G. Bhat
+  - Tony Hong
+  - Xuhao Luo
+  - Jiyu Hu
+  - Aishwarya Ganesan
+  - Ramnatthan Alagappan
+  reason: "Introduces fix-ante ordering to achieve low latency on a shared log without sacrificing throughput, offering a new design point for log-based distributed storage."
+- title: 'Okapi: Decoupling Data Striping and Redundancy Grouping in Cluster File Systems'
+  authors:
+  - Sanjith Athlur
+  - Timothy Kim
+  - Saurabh Kadekodi
+  - Francisco Maturana
+  - Xavier Ramos
+  - Arif Merchant
+  - K. V. Rashmi
+  - Gregory R. Ganger
+  reason: "Challenges a long-standing coupling in erasure-coded cluster file systems, enabling independent optimization of striping and redundancy with measurable gains in production workloads."
+- title: 'PoWER Never Corrupts: Tool-Agnostic Verification of Crash Consistency and Corruption Detection'
+  authors:
+  - Hayley LeBlanc
+  - Jacob R. Lorch
+  - Chris Hawblitzel
+  - Cheng Huang
+  - Yiheng Tao
+  - Nickolai Zeldovich
+  - Vijay Chidambaram
+  reason: "Provides a tool-agnostic framework for formally verifying crash consistency and corruption detection in storage systems, raising the bar for storage software correctness."
+- title: 'EMT: An OS Framework for New Memory Translation Architectures'
+  authors:
+  - Siyuan Chai 0001
+  - Jiyuan Zhang 0003
+  - Jongyul Kim 0001
+  - Alan Wang
+  - Fan Chung
+  - Jovan Stojkovic
+  - Weiwei Jia 0001
+  - Dimitrios Skarlatos 0002
+  - Josep Torrellas
+  - Tianyin Xu
+  reason: "Defines an OS abstraction layer that decouples applications from hardware-specific memory translation mechanisms, enabling future memory architectures to be adopted without OS rewrites."
+- title: 'XSched: Preemptive Scheduling for Diverse XPUs'
+  authors:
+  - Weihang Shen
+  - Mingcong Han
+  - Jialong Liu
+  - Rong Chen 0001
+  - Haibo Chen 0001
+  reason: "Generalises preemptive scheduling to heterogeneous accelerators (XPUs), providing a unified OS-level mechanism for fair and responsive multi-tenant accelerator sharing."
+- title: Extending Applications Safely and Efficiently
+  authors:
+  - Yusheng Zheng
+  - Tong Yu
+  - Yiwei Yang 0002
+  - Yanpeng Hu
+  - Xiaozheng Lai
+  - Dan Williams 0001
+  - Andi Quinn
+  reason: "Presents a principled model for safe, efficient application extensibility that generalises beyond eBPF, with implications for the design of future OS extension mechanisms."
+- title: 'NanoFlow: Towards Optimal Large Language Model Serving Throughput'
+  authors:
+  - Kan Zhu
+  - Yufei Gao
+  - Yilong Zhao 0002
+  - Liangyu Zhao
+  - Gefei Zuo
+  - Yile Gu
+  - Dedong Xie
+  - Zihao Ye 0001
+  - Keisuke Kamahori
+  - Chien-Yu Lin
+  - Ziren Wang
+  - Stephanie Wang
+  - Arvind Krishnamurthy
+  - Baris Kasikci
+  reason: "Analytically characterises the throughput ceiling for LLM serving and proposes a system that approaches that bound through fine-grained intra-device parallelism."
+- title: 'WaferLLM: Large Language Model Inference at Wafer Scale'
+  authors:
+  - Congjie He
+  - Yeqi Huang
+  - Pei Mu 0003
+  - Ziming Miao
+  - Jilong Xue
+  - Lingxiao Ma
+  - Fan Yang 0024
+  - Luo Mai
+  reason: "Demonstrates end-to-end LLM inference on wafer-scale hardware, tackling novel challenges in memory, communication, and fault tolerance at an unprecedented scale of integration."
+- title: 'Mirage: A Multi-Level Superoptimizer for Tensor Programs'
+  authors:
+  - Mengdi Wu
+  - Xinhao Cheng
+  - Shengyu Liu
+  - Chunan Shi
+  - Jianan Ji
+  - Man Kit Ao
+  - Praveen Velliengiri
+  - Xupeng Miao
+  - Oded Padon
+  - Zhihao Jia
+  reason: "Extends tensor program superoptimisation to multiple abstraction levels, discovering non-obvious kernel fusions that outperform hand-tuned implementations for ML workloads."
+- title: 'Training with Confidence: Catching Silent Errors in Deep Learning Training with Automated Proactive Checks'
+  authors:
+  - Yuxuan Jiang 0016
+  - Ziming Zhou
+  - Boyu Xu 0005
+  - Beijie Liu
+  - Runhui Xu
+  - Peng Huang 0005
+  reason: "Addresses the underappreciated problem of silent hardware and software errors in large-scale DL training, providing automated proactive checks that catch failures before they corrupt long training runs."
+- title: 'Compass: Encrypted Semantic Search with High Accuracy'
+  authors:
+  - Jinhao Zhu
+  - Liana Patel
+  - Matei Zaharia
+  - Raluca Ada Popa
+  reason: "Enables accurate semantic (vector) search over encrypted data, bridging the gap between privacy-preserving computation and modern retrieval workloads in cloud-hosted RAG systems."