Publications

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Technical Reports

2026

Kimi k3: Open frontier intelligence

• Kimi Team

Conference Papers

2026

ATLAS: Pathfinding Efficient 3D-DRAM-based LLM Inference Accelerator Design via Silicon-Proven Full-Stack Simulation

• Cong Li, Chenhao Xue, Yi Ren, Xiping Dong, Yinbo Hu, Fujun Bai, Yixin Guo, Xiping Jiang, Qiang Wu, Zhi Yang, Zhe Cheng, Yuan Xie, Guangyu Sun
• International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2026

Helios: Enabling Dynamic KV Cache Management for Near-Memory Processing via Hybrid-Bonding-based 3D-DRAM

• Cong Li, Yihan Yin, Chenhao Xue, Zhao Wang, Fujun Bai, Yixin Guo, Xiping Jiang, Qiang Wu, Yuan Xie, Guangyu Sun
• International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2026

CODA: Algorithm-Hardware Co-design for Edge Video Diffusion via NMP-Enabled Compute-Cache Operator Disaggregation

• Yuanpeng Zhang, Yuxuan Wu, Yitong Xiao, Chenhao Xue, Yi Ren, Cong Li, Yihan Yin, Dimin Niu, Guangyu Sun
• International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2026

Tetris: Efficient Long-context LLM Serving with Chunkwise Dynamic Sequence Parallelism

• Cong Li, Yuzhe Yang, Xuegui Zheng, Qifan Yang, Yijin Guan, Size Zheng, Li-Wen Chang, Shufan Liu, Xin Liu, Guangyu Sun
• International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2026

Maple: Efficient Data-Transfer-Aware Mapping Exploration for NDP-enabled Edge LLM Inference

• Xuefeng Hua*, Cong Li*, Xin Si, Qiang Wu, Guangyu Sun (* denotes co-first authors.)
• Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026

2025

H$^2$-LLM: Hardware-Dataflow Co-Exploration for Heterogeneous Hybrid-Bonding-based Low-Batch LLM Inference

• Best Paper Award (2 of 132 accepted submissions, first time in China)
• Cong Li, Yihan Yin, Xintong Wu, Jingchen Zhu, Zhutianya Gao, Dimin Niu, Qiang Wu, Xin Si, Yuan Xie, Chen Zhang, Guangyu Sun
• International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2025

AIM: Software and Hardware Co-design for Architecture-level IR-drop Mitigation in High-performance PIM

• Yuanpeng Zhang, Xing Hu, Xi Chen, Zhihang Yuan, Cong Li, Jingchen Zhu, Zhao Wang, Chenguang Zhang, Xin Si, Wei Gao, Qiang Wu, Runsheng Wang, Guangyu Sun
• International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2025

CtXnL: A Software-Hardware Co-Designed Solution for Efficient CXL-Based Transaction Processing

• Zhao Wang, Yiqi Chen, Cong Li, Yijin Guan, Dimin Niu, Tianchan Guan, Zhaoyang Du, Xingda Wei, Guangyu Sun
• International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2025

UniNDP: A Unified Compilation and Simulation Tool for Near DRAM Processing Architectures

• Best Paper Honorable Mention (2 of 113 accepted submissions)
• Tongxin Xie*, Zhenhua Zhu*, Bing Li, Yukai He, Cong Li, Guangyu Sun, Huazhong Yang, Yuan Xie, and Yu Wang
• International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2025

2024

SpecPIM: Accelerating Speculative Inference on PIM-Enabled System via Architecture-Dataflow Co-Exploration

• Cong Li, Zhe Zhou, Size Zheng, Jiaxi Zhang, Yun Liang, Guangyu Sun
• International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2024

PIM-DL: Expanding the Applicability of Commodity DRAM-PIMs for Deep Learning via Algorithm-System Co-Optimization

• Cong Li, Zhe Zhou, Yang Wang, Fan Yang, Ting Cao, Mao Yang, Yun Liang, Guangyu Sun
• International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2024

2023

NMExplorer: An Efficient Exploration Framework for DIMM-based Near-Memory Tensor Reduction

• Cong Li, Zhe Zhou, Xingchen Li, Guangyu Sun and Dimin Niu
• Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023

DIMM-Link: Enabling Efficient Inter-DIMM Communication for Near-Memory Processing

• Best Paper Award (2 of 91 accepted submissions, first time in China)
• Zhe Zhou*, Cong Li*, Fan Yang and Guangyu Sun (* denotes co-first authors.)
• International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2023

2022

GNNear: Accelerating Full-Batch Training of Graph Neural Networks with Near-Memory Processing

• Zhe Zhou*, Cong Li*, XueChao Wei, Xiaoyang Wang and Guangyu Sun (* denotes co-first authors.)
• International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2022

Journal Papers

2025

Pac-PIM: A Parallel Communication Framework for Commodity Processing-in-memory Systems

• Fan Yang, Zhe Zhou, Cong Li, Tsung-Yi Ho, Ming-Chang Yang
• ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), 2025