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Cache-Optimize a Graph-Analytics Kernel for a Social Platform
Receive the existing kernel (C++ + OpenMP, around 1,200 lines), the 1.8B-edge graph (CSR format, around 14GB), and target hardware (dual-socket AMD EPYC 9354, 384GB DDR5, 256MB …
- Cache Optimization
- Graph Algorithms
- Memory Hierarchy
Performance Engineering of Software Systems - CodeExpertNew
Design a Polyhedral Loop-Tiling Strategy for a Tensor DSL
Study the DSL's IR (provided, MLIR-based with linalg-style ops). Choose a tiling strategy (rectangular tiling with cost-modeled tile sizes is the safe baseline; full polyhedral …
- Polyhedral Analysis
- Loop Tiling
- Mlir
Advanced Compilers and Program Optimization - CodeExpertNew
Build a Unikernel for a Privacy-Focused VPN Provider
Choose either MirageOS or Unikraft as the unikernel framework. Build an image running a minimal WireGuard data plane (existing OCaml or Rust WireGuard reference implementation i…
- Unikernels
- Virtualization
- Wireguard
Advanced Operating Systems - ResearchExpertNew
Trajectory Prediction Model for Urban Robotaxis
Use the Argoverse 2 motion-forecasting dataset (open access). Train an LSTM baseline + a transformer challenger (e.g., a small Wayformer or HiVT). Evaluate on minADE/minFDE (min…
- Trajectory Prediction
- Transformer Models
- Evaluation
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- AnalysisExpertNew
Memory Consistency Model Audit of a Lock-Free Queue
Read the SPSC queue source (around 200 lines of C++). For each atomic operation, classify the required ordering and verify the chosen memory_order is sufficient under both x86-T…
- Memory Consistency
- Concurrency
- Lock Free Programming
Advanced Computer Architecture - ResearchExpertNew
Benchmark Reward-from-Feedback Methods on a Tabletop Pick-Place
You will use a Franka Panda arm in PyBullet on a 4-object pick-and-place task. For each of the three feedback methods, train a reward model and a downstream policy until converg…
- Reinforcement Learning
- Reward Learning
- Preference Comparison
Human-Robot Interaction - CodeExpertNew
Min-Cost Max-Flow for Cloud Workload Placement
Receive 30 days of anonymized placement requests (workload CPU/memory shape, affinity rules), zone capacity per day, and cross-zone bandwidth costs. Model the placement as a min…
- Network Flows
- Algorithm Analysis
- Graph Algorithms
Advanced Algorithms - CodeExpertNew
Build a Lock-Free MPMC Queue for a Trading-Backend Hot Path
Implement Vyukov's bounded MPMC queue in C++20 using atomic operations with explicit memory orderings (relaxed where safe, acquire/release on the enqueue/dequeue handshake). Use…
- Lock Free Algorithms
- Memory Models
- Cpp
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Port a Microkernel IPC Mechanism to a New Architecture
Fork the project repository and port the synchronous IPC fast path to RISC-V (RV64GC). Preserve the existing fast-path invariants: register-only message passing for messages und…
- Microkernels
- Ipc
- Risc V
Advanced Operating Systems - ResearchExpertNew
Implement an Autoregressive Model for Anonymized Voice-Synthesis at a Defense Vendor
You receive a public-domain speech dataset (LibriTTS subset, around 50 speakers) and a fixed evaluation protocol (speaker-identifiability AUC, emotion-preservation MOS proxy, in…
- Autoregressive Models
- Voice Conversion
- Speech Synthesis
Deep Generative Models - CodeExpertNew
Design a Lock-Free Concurrent Skip List for a Time-Series Database
Implement Fraser's lock-free skip list in Rust with marked pointers for logical deletion. Validate under loom for all interleavings up to 4 threads (or use shuttle if loom can't…
- Lock Free
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Rust Programming
Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - CodeExpertNew
Port a CPU Monte-Carlo Simulator to GPU for an Energy Trader
Receive the existing simulator (C++17 + OpenMP, around 5,000 lines), the test book (around 8,000 spread options), and access to an H100 80GB. Port to CUDA: random-number generat…
- Gpu Programming
- Cuda
- Monte Carlo
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Heterogeneous Scheduling Policy for a Big.LITTLE Mobile SoC
Read the existing scheduler's energy model (provided). Design an improved policy using one or more of: per-task IPC-aware placement, exponential moving average load smoothing to…
- Multicore Architecture
- Scheduling
- Energy Modeling
Advanced Computer Architecture - AnalysisExpertNew
Brain-Tumor MRI Segmentation Bake-Off
You receive a curated public multi-modal MRI brain-tumor cohort (~600 patients, T1/T1c/T2/FLAIR with whole-tumor / tumor-core / enhancing-tumor masks). Train all three architect…
- Medical Imaging
- Segmentation
- Convolutional Neural Networks
Machine Learning for Imaging and Medical Image Analysis - CodeExpertNew
Port a Numerical Kernel from CPU to GPU for a CFD Simulator
Receive the existing CFD solver (C++17 + OpenMP, around 8,000 lines, the hot kernel is a 7-point stencil sweep over a 512^3 grid), the validation harness, and access to an A100 …
- Gpu Programming
- Cuda
- Parallelism
Performance Engineering of Software Systems - CodeExpertNew
Profile and Cut Inference Cost on a Recommender at Scale
You receive (1) a frozen ONNX export of the production model, (2) a sample request trace of 24 hours at 1% sampling, and (3) a single A100-class GPU sandbox. Profile with NVIDIA…
- Gpu Profiling
- Model Quantization
- Inference Optimization
Machine Learning Systems - ResearchExpertNew
Open-Vocabulary Segmentation Benchmark for a Robotics R&D Lab
Use a curated 200-image household scene set (publicly-available HM3D renderings or COCO + a handful of household prompts). Benchmark 3 open-vocabulary segmentation models: SAM +…
- Open Vocabulary Segmentation
- Vision Language Models
- Benchmarking
Computer Vision - CodeExpertNew
Build a Secure Multi-Party Computation Demo for Cross-Bank Fraud Detection
Pick MP-SPDZ as the MPC framework. Build a 4-party demo computing two protocols: (1) private set intersection of suspicious-account IDs across banks, (2) joint aggregate (count …
- Secure Computation
- Mpc
- Cryptography
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies - CodeExpertNew
Scale an HPC MPI Workload Across a Multi-Node Cluster
Receive the MPI weather model (Fortran 2018 + C, ~22,000 lines), 4 weeks of strong-scaling logs (1 to 256 ranks), and access to AWS ParallelCluster with EFA-enabled c7gn instanc…
- Hpc Programming
- Mpi
- Parallel Performance
Advanced Concurrency and Parallel Computing - ResearchExpertNew
SAT-Based Planner for Smart-Grid Demand Response
Encode the dispatch problem (which customers to curtail by how much, respecting per-customer contractual caps and grid-cell totals) as a SAT or MaxSAT instance. Solve 50 histori…
- Sat Based Planning
- Constraint Encoding
- Benchmarking
Automated Planning - CodeExpertNew
Implement Distributed Shared Memory Over RDMA for a Trading Firm
Build a DSM library in C++ exposing a region API (allocate, read, write, free). Use ibverbs for RDMA primitives (one-sided read/write, atomics for the directory). Implement dire…
- Distributed Systems
- Rdma
- Consistency Models
Advanced Operating Systems - CodeExpertNew
Auto-Vectorize an Inner Loop for AVX-512
Profile the existing kernel on a 12-dataset benchmark (provided). Pick one of two strategies: (a) add an LLVM IR-level vectorization pass plugged into the existing pipeline, or …
- Vectorization
- Llvm
- Loop Optimization
Advanced Compilers and Program Optimization - ResearchExpertNew
Benchmark Long-Context Architectures on a Legal-Doc Retrieval Task
You receive a public legal-QA dataset (e.g., LongBench's legal split or similar) filtered to documents over 50,000 tokens. Implement or wrap 3 architectures: a sliding-window Tr…
- Long Context Architectures
- State Space Models
- Transformers
Advanced Deep Learning - CodeExpertNew
Vectorize a Risk-Calculation Engine for a Mid-Cap Bank
Receive the existing pricer (C++17, scalar, around 600 lines), 2 weeks of representative input data (around 50M paths), the validation harness, and access to an Intel Ice Lake-S…
- Vectorization
- Avx 512
- Simd
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