https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/ Recent content in Weekly CS Paper Digest — 2026-07-26 → 2026-08-01 on Sparse Notes https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png Hugo -- gohugo.io Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/incast-free-moe-rate-scheduling/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/incast-free-moe-rate-scheduling/ Round-robin scheduling of Mixture-of-Experts all-to-all traffic causes an exponentially growing incast; normalizing the demand matrix by its worst-case row/column sum eliminates it by construction. https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/specula-agentic-tla-model-checking/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/specula-agentic-tla-model-checking/ A push-button agentic system that writes its own TLA+ specs, checks them against real code traces, and found 249 bugs across 48 open-source systems. https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/log-structured-file-system/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/log-structured-file-system/ Seminal paper of the week: Rosenblum and Ousterhout's bet that memory would keep growing, reads would stop hitting disk, and the only thing left worth optimizing was the write path.