Publications

Preprints / arXiv

Latest manuscripts that have not yet appeared in the peer-reviewed publication list.

  • Embodied.cpp: A Portable Inference Runtime of Embodied AI Models on Heterogeneous Robots.
    Ling Xu, Borui Li, Hao Wu, Chuyu Han, Xiangyu Li, Mohan Hua, Shiqi Jiang, Ting Cao, Chuanyou Li, Sheng Zhong, Shuai Wang arXiv PDF GitHub Hugging Face
Peer-reviewed Publications
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2027
  1. TensorGPT: Towards Generative Tensor Program Optimization for Heterogeneous Edge Devices.
    Borui Li, Hangshuai He, Weilong Wang, Shuai Wang, ACM SenSys 2027, Conditionally accepted. (CCF-A)
2026
  1. A^2: Characterizing and Mitigating Imbalanced Reclaim in MGLRU via Active Aging at Production Scale.
    Fei Zeng, Zicheng Wang, Ligeng Chen, Yinggang Guo, Hao Wu, Lu Liu, Tao Wang, Jun Xiao, Borui Li, Feng Lyu, ACM SIGOPS ATC 2026, Accepted. (135/973=13.9%, CCF-A) Source Document
  1. ProfEdge: Efficient Construction of DNN Performance Evaluation Model on Edge Devices.
    Weilong Wang, Songtao Lu, Jiawei Liu, Borui Li✉, Zhao-Dong Xu, Shuai Wang, ACM Trans. on Internet Technology, To appear. (CCF-B) PDF DOI
  1. FaaSLearner: Resource-Efficient Edge Video Analytics via Correlation-aware Multi-model Continual Learning.
    Tianen Liu, Borui Li, Weilong Wang, Yun Cheng, Shuai Wang, Tian He, Yunhao Liu, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, To appear. (CCF-A) PDF DOI
  1. Surviving the Impossible Trinity: Revisiting CPU Scheduling Problem on Modern COTS Mobile Devices.
    Jun Xiao, Qinhui Gu, Ligeng Chen, Lizhi Sun, Zicheng Wang, Yinggang Guo, Lu Liu, Hao Wu✉, Borui Li✉, USENIX OSDI 2026, July 13–15, 2026, Seattle, WA, USA. (CCF-A) PDF Source Document
  1. InfSquad: SLO-aware Serverless Machine Learning Inference with Wasm-assisted Hybrid Functions.
    Weilong Wang, Borui Li, Hai Wang, Wei Xi, Shuai Wang, Tian He, IEEE Trans. on Services Computing, To appear. (CCF-A) PDF DOI
  1. LLM-Flex: Adaptive Heterogeneous Federated Learning Based on LLM in Uncertain Scenarios.
    Qian Liu, Weilong Wang, Borui Li, Shuai Huang, Shuai Wang✉, CSCWD 2026, (CCF-C) PDF DOI
  1. DigimonGPT: An Evolvable Agent with Hierarchical Human-like Memory for Video Question Answering.
    Borui Li, Xingcai Zhang, Tianen Liu, S. Wang, Yun Cheng, Shuai Wang, AAAI'26, Jan. 20 – 27, 2026, Singapore. (CCF-A) PDF DOI
  1. Real-Batch: Real-time Adaptive Batch Processing for Accurate Object Detection in Autonomous Driving.
    Tianen Liu, Shuai Wang, Borui Li, Zheng Dong, Guang Wang, Wei Gong, Tian He, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, To appear. (CCF-A) PDF DOI
2025
  1. AI-Native Computing for Distributed Cloud-Edge-Device Collaboration.
    Borui Li, Shuai Wang, Weilong Wang, Jiawei Liu, Tianen Liu, Computing, Vol. 1, Issue 8, Pages: 38-45. PDF Source Document DOI
  1. Jarvis: Zero-code Prototyping of IoT Applications with Composable Hardware-Software Abstractions.
    Weilong Wang, Borui Li, Shuai Wang, Tian He, ACM Trans. on Internet of Things, Volume 6, Issue 4, Article No.: 27, Pages 1 - 27. PDF DOI
  1. FluidEdge: Expediting Serverless Machine Learning Inference via Bottleneck-aware Auto-scaling on Edge SoCs.
    Borui Li, Tiange Xia, Weilong Wang, Jingyuan Zhang, S. Wang, Chenhong Cao, Zheng Dong, Shuai Wang, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Volume: 24, Issue: 12, December 2025, pp. 13586 - 13599. (CCF-A) PDF DOI
  1. nnWeb: Towards Efficient WebGPU-based DNN Inference via Automatic Collaborative Offloading.
    Jiawei Liu, Bing Dong, Weilong Wang, Muhan Yuan, Borui Li✉, Zhao-Dong Xu, Shuai Wang, Computer Networks, Volume 270, October 2025, 111489. (CCF-B) PDF Source Document DOI
  1. TensorShield: Safeguarding On-Device Inference by Shielding Critical DNN Tensors with TEE.
    Tong Sun, Bowen Jiang, Hailong Lin, Borui Li, Yixiao Teng, Yi Gao, Wei Dong, ACM CCS 2025, October 13-17, 2025. (CCF-A) PDF DOI
  1. MobiLoRA: Accelerating LoRA-based LLM Inference on Mobile Devices via Context-aware KV Cache Optimization.
    Borui Li, Yitao Wang, Haoran Ma, Ligeng Chen, Jun Xiao, Shuai Wang, ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria. July 27–August 1st, 2025. (CCF-A) PDF DOI
  1. InfiniCL: Elastic Continual Learning for Resource-Constrained Edge Devices.
    Chenyu Lu, Mengyang Liu, Fang Dong, Borui Li, Ruiting Zhou, Shiyao Ji, ACM/IEEE IWQoS 2025, Gold Coast, Australia, July 2-4, 2025. (CCF-B) PDF DOI
  1. Collaborative Model Inference for Edge AI: A Deviceless Approach.
    Shuai Wang, Borui Li, Weilong Wang, Tianen Liu, Communications of CCF, Vol. 21, No. 3, March 2025. (CCF Flagship Venue) PDF Source Document
  1. Exploiting Multiple Similarity Spaces for Deduplication of Encrypted Container Images.
    Tong Sun, Bowen Jiang, Borui Li, Jiamei Lv, Yi Gao, Wei Dong, ACM Trans. on Storage, To appear. (CCF-A) PDF DOI
  1. InfScaler: Enabling Efficient ML Inference Serving on Multi-Accelerator Edge Devices via Asymmetric Auto-Scaling.
    Borui Li, Tiange Xia, S. Wang, Shuai Wang, IEEE/ACM DAC 2025, San Francisco, CA, USA. June 22-25, 2025. (CCF-A) PDF DOI
  1. From Perception to Computation: Revisiting Delay Optimization for Connected Autonomous Vehicles.
    Tianen Liu, Shuai Wang, Zheng Dong, Borui Li, Tian He, ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 57, Issue 8, Article No.: 200, Pages 1 - 45. (IF=23.8, JCR Q1) PDF DOI
  1. Agent-as-a-Service: an AI-native Edge Computing Framework for 6G Networks.
    Borui Li, Tianen Liu, Weilong Wang, Chengqing Zhao, Shuai Wang✉, IEEE Network, Vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 44-51, March 2025. (IF=6.8, JCR Q1) PDF DOI
  1. WaWoT: Towards Flexible and Efficient Web of Things Services via WebAssembly on Resource-constrained IoT Devices.
    Borui Li✉, Hongchang Fan, Yi Gao, Wei Dong✉, IEEE Trans. on Computers, Volume 74, Issue 3, March 2025, pp 1094-1108. (IF=3.7, CCF-A) PDF DOI
2024
  1. BLEdge: Edge-centric programming for BLE applications with multi-connection optimization.
    Yeming Li, Borui Li, Jiamei Lv, Wei Dong, ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks, Volume 20, Issue 6, Article No.: 126, Pages 1 - 25. (IF=2.5, CAS Q3, TH-CPL B, CCF-B) PDF DOI
  1. SimEnc: a High-Performance Similarity Preserving Encryption Approach for Deduplication of Encrypted Docker Images.
    Tong Sun, Bowen Jiang, Borui Li, Jiamei Lv, Yi Gao, Wei Dong, USENIX ATC 2024, Santa Clara, CA, USA. July 10–12, 2024. (Best Storage Related Paper!, CCF-A) PDF Source Document
  1. dTEE: A Declarative Approach to Secure IoT Applications Using TrustZone.
    Tong Sun, Borui Li, Yixiao Teng, Yi Gao, Wei Dong, IEEE/ACM IPSN 2024, Hong Kong, China. May 13-16, 2024. (CCF-B) PDF DOI
  1. Privacy-preserving Human Activity Recognition via Video-based Range-Doppler Synthesis.
    Zhiyuan Cui, Luoyu Mei, Siyuan Pei, Borui Li, Xiaolei Zhou, CSCWD 2024, Tianjin, China. May 8-10, 2024. (CCF-C) PDF DOI
2023
  1. WebInf: Accelerating WebGPU-based In-browser DNN Inference via Adaptive Model Partitioning.
    Bing Dong, Tianen Liu, Borui Li, Xiaolei Zhou, Shuai Wang, Zhaodong Xu, IEEE ICPADS 2023, Ocean Flower Island, Hainan, China. December 17-21, 2023. (CCF-C) PDF DOI
  1. The First Measurement Study of Target Wake Time Mechanism in 802.11ax on COTS Devices.
    Chengqing Zhao, Borui Li✉, Shuai Wang, Tian He, IEEE ICC 2023, Rome, Italy, May 28-June 01, 2023. (TH-CPL B, CCF-C) PDF DOI
  1. RT-BLE: Real-time Multi-Connection Scheduling for Bluetooth Low Energy.
    Yeming Li, Jiamei Lv, Borui Li, Wei Dong, IEEE INFOCOM 2023, New York, USA, May 17-20, 2023. (252/1312=19.2%, TH-CPL A, CCF-A) PDF DOI
  1. LinkLab 2.0: A Multi-tenant Programmable IoT Testbed for Experimentation with Edge-Cloud Integration.
    Wei Dong‡, Borui Li‡, Haoyu Li, Hao Wu, Kaijie Gong, Wenzhao Zhang, Yi Gao, USENIX NSDI 2023, Boston, MA, April 17-19, 2023. (50/272=18.4%, TH-CPL A, CCF-A) PDF Source Document
2022
  1. Low-code Development of IoT Software.
    Borui Li, Wei Dong, Yi Gao, Yanwei Liu, Communications of CCF, Vol. 18, No. 6, June 2022. (CCF Flagship Venue) PDF Source Document
  1. Bringing WebAssembly to Resource-constrained IoT Devices for Seamless Device-Cloud Integration.
    Borui Li, Hongchang Fan, Yi Gao, Wei Dong, ACM MobiSys 2022, Portland, Oregon, June 27 - July 1, 2022. (38/176=21.6%, TH-CPL A, CCF-B) PDF DOI
  1. Edge-centric Programming for IoT Applications with Automatic Code Partitioning.
    Borui Li, Wei Dong, IEEE Trans. on Computers, Volume 71, Issue 10, October 1, 2022, pp 2408-2422. (IF=3.7, CAS Q2, TH-CPL A, CCF-A) PDF DOI
2021
  1. ThingSpire OS: a WebAssembly-based IoT Operating System for Cloud-Edge Integration.
    Borui Li, Hongchang Fan, Yi Gao, Wei Dong, ACM MobiSys 2021, Posters and Demos, Virtual, June 24 - July 2, 2021. (Poster, TH-CPL A, CCF-B) PDF Video DOI
  1. S2: a Small Delta and Small Memory Differencing Algorithm for Reprogramming Resource-constrained IoT Devices.
    Borui Li, Chenghao Tong, Yi Gao, Wei Dong, IEEE INFOCOM 2021, Posters and Demos, Virtual, May 10-13, 2021. (Poster, TH-CPL A, CCF-A) PDF DOI
  1. Queec: QoE-aware Edge Computing for IoT Devices under Dynamic Workloads.
    Borui Li, Wei Dong, Gaoyang Guan, Jiadong Zhang, Tao Gu, Jiajun Bu, Yi Gao, ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks, Volume 17, Issue 3, June 2021, Article No.: 27, pp 1–23. (IF=2.5, CAS Q3, TH-CPL B, CCF-B) PDF DOI
  1. WiProg: A WebAssembly-based Approach to Integrated IoT Programming.
    Borui Li, Wei Dong, Yi Gao, IEEE INFOCOM 2021, Virtual, May 10-13, 2021. (252/1266=19.9%, TH-CPL A, CCF-A) PDF DOI
  1. Automatic Generation of IoT Device Platforms with AutoLink.
    Borui Li, Wei Dong, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Volume 8, Issue 7, April 1, 2021, pp 5893-5903. (IF=9.9, CAS Q1, JCR Q1) PDF DOI
2020
  1. TinyLink: A Holistic System for Rapid Development of IoT Applications.
    Wei Dong, Borui Li, Gaoyang Guan, Zhihao Cheng, Jiadong Zhang, Yi Gao, ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks, Volume 17, Issue 1, September 2020, Article No.: 2, pp 1–29. (IF=2.469, CAS Q3, TH-CPL B, CCF-B) PDF Video DOI
  1. EdgeProg: Edge-centric Programming for IoT Applications.
    Borui Li, Wei Dong, IEEE ICDCS 2020, Singapore, Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 2020. (105/584=18.0%, TH-CPL B, CCF-B) PDF DOI
  1. TinyLink 2.0: Integrating Device, Cloud, and Client Development for IoT Applications.
    Gaoyang Guan, Borui Li, Yi Gao, Yuxuan Zhang, Jiajun Bu, Wei Dong, ACM MobiCom 2020, London, UK, Sept. 21-25. (Summer deadline: 24/139=17.3%, Overall: 62/384=16.1%, TH-CPL A, CCF-A) PDF DOI