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About this paper
Jacopo Tagliabue
Bauplan Labs developed an iterative AI-driven methodology for distributed systems design, employing Large Language Models to generate novel scheduling policies for a Function-as-a-Service runtime. This approach, validated through a simulator, achieved throughput improvements of up to 371.1% over a baseline FIFO scheduler.
Key insights
- AI, specifically LLMs, can effectively explore new programmatic policy spaces, moving beyond parameter tuning to generate novel, semantically distinct distributed system policies.
- Pairing generative AI with a deterministic system simulator creates a practical neuro-symbolic methodology, where the simulator acts as a robust verifier for machine-generated ideas.
- The approach maintains human interpretability by generating policies as readable Python code, fostering trust, enabling debugging, and supporting human-AI collaboration in system design.
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