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Ziqian Liu

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Jul 2026

Towards a Systems Foundation for Agentic Cloud Management

This paper discusses how CloudWeaver scopes the context of individual agent sessions with local views of cloud resources and coordinates concurrent management operations on shared cloud resources, and offers strong safety guarantees and attributable feedback in the presence of conflicting intents, while preserving concurrency between independent operations.

Minghao Li, Ziqian Liu, Ziyu Mao et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Jul 2026

The Model in the Middle: Toward AI-Native Real-Time Communication

Full-duplex omni models are transforming human--AI interaction from turn-based exchanges into continuous multimodal conversations in which speaking, listening, and reasoning unfold concurrently. Rather than viewing the model as a replacement for a human endpoint, we argue for a new perspective: the model is a stateful computational middlebox inside a human-centered feedback loop, with network transport, model serving, and user playback jointly shaping how the interaction evolves. This perspective breaks the traditional boundaries among stages designed around local objectives. Rather than optimizing them in isolation, an AI-native real-time stack should allow the state of each stage to shape the actions of the others. We explore three cross-stage coordination opportunities: network-aware inference scheduling, execution-aware transport prioritization, and playback control that accounts for both network and model variability. We are building Conflux to explore these ideas, and preliminary results show substantial improvements in response latency and playback deadline adherence under network degradation. More broadly, we call for an AI-native real-time communication stack that resolve the joint control problem spanning communication, computation, and playback.

Ziqian Liu, Minghao Li, Yiming Qiu · 0 citations

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