Let the Barbarians In: How AI Can Accelerate Systems Performance Research
Audrey Cheng, Shu Liu, Melissa Pan, Zhifei Li, Shubham Agarwal, Mert Cemri, Bowen Wang, Alexander Krentsel, Tian Xia, Jongseok Park, Shuo Yang, Jeff Chen, Lakshya Agrawal, Ashwin Naren, Shulu Li, Ruiying Ma, Aditya Desai, Jiarong Xing, Koushik Sen, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica
Explores AI-driven optimization of problems via evolutionary learning.
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14806
Project Page: https://sky.cs.berkeley.edu/project/adrs/
Isoperimetric sets of English words
Grant Blitz, Timothy Chen, Marcus Collins, Ashwin Naren, Edward Zhang, et. al.
On Isoperimetric sets of english words, using the metric distances betwen them as a numerical measure of distance on the 3000 most used English words.
https://www.parabola.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/2024-02/vol59_no2_1.pdf
Homomorphism Density
Ashwin Naren
An expository paper on Homomorphism Density, a subfield of extremal graph theory concerning the density of a homomorphism in a graph. Homomorphism density provides probabilistic insights on the local structures of dense graphs.
http://simonrs.com/eulercircle/irpw2024/ashwin-homdensity-paper.pdf