Xiaohua Jia

Green scheduling for cloud data centers using renewable resources

2015

Cloud data centers provide all kinds of service using hundreds of thousands of servers. This naturally leads to concerns about the effect on environment such as carbon emissions and global warming. Huge amounts of effort …

Reservation schemes for IaaS cloud broker: a time‐multiplexing way for different rental time

2016 · Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience

Summary Infrastructure‐as‐a‐Service cloud providers always charge users in 2 ways: on‐demand billing and reservation billing with different discounts. On‐demand billing is more flexible for short‐term use but with higher cost, while reservation billing is much …

Contrastive Preference Learning for Neural Machine Translation

2024

There exists a discrepancy between the tokenlevel objective during training and the overall sequence-level quality that is expected from the model.This discrepancy leads to issues like exposure bias.To align the model with human expectations, sequence-level …