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Ziyue Dang

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Backstitch: Restoring Request Causality Across a Production Microservice Fleet

A major video platform runs on thousands of microservices, each request propagating a context so downstream work can be traced and governed. At handoffs outside instrumented paths, e.g., custom queues and callbacks, the payload continues but the context does not, and the request still succeeds under existing tests. Such breaks are silent and widespread: 673 of 1,133 services carried at least one. Backstitch, a specialized agentic system, repairs them using the surviving execution as its reference: replay determines whether a suspicious call is request-correlated, source analysis reaches the responsible handoff, a bounded change restores its contract, and the same replay validates the fix. Repairs restore the causal chain without disturbing the work it describes: breaks at 240 of the repaired calls fell from 90.46% to 4.69%, and over 112 days the fleet's break rate more than halved.

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DeepSpecs: Expert-Level Questions Answering in 5G

5G technology enables mobile Internet access for billions of users. Answering expert-level questions about 5G specifications requires navigating thousands of pages of cross-referenced standards that evolve across releases. Existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks, including telecom-specific approaches, rely on semantic similarity and cannot reliably resolve cross-references or reason about specification evolution. We present DeepSpecs, a RAG system enhanced by structural and temporal reasoning via three metadata-rich databases: SpecDB (clause-aligned specification text), ChangeDB (line-level version diffs), and TDocDB (standardization meeting documents). DeepSpecs explicitly resolves cross-references by recursively retrieving referenced clauses through metadata lookup, and traces specification evolution by mining changes and linking them to Change Requests that document design rationale. We curate two 5G QA datasets: 573 expert-annotated real-world questions from practitioner forums and educational resources, and 350 evolution-focused questions derived from approved Change Requests. Across multiple LLM backends, DeepSpecs outperforms base models and state-of-the-art telecom RAG systems; ablations confirm that explicit cross-reference resolution and evolution-aware retrieval substantially improve answer quality, underscoring the value of modeling the structural and temporal properties of 5G standards.

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Facilitating Self-monitored Physical Rehabilitation with Virtual Reality and Haptic feedback

Physical rehabilitation is essential to recovery from joint replacement operations. As a representation, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) requires patients to conduct intensive physical exercises to regain the knee's range of motion and muscle strength. However, current joint replacement physical rehabilitation methods rely highly on therapists for supervision, and existing computer-assisted systems lack consideration for enabling self-monitoring, making at-home physical rehabilitation difficult. In this paper, we investigated design recommendations that would enable self-monitored rehabilitation through clinical observations and focus group interviews with doctors and therapists. With this knowledge, we further explored Virtual Reality(VR)-based visual presentation and supplemental haptic motion guidance features in our implementation VReHab, a self-monitored and multimodal physical rehabilitation system with VR and vibrotactile and pneumatic feedback in a TKA rehabilitation context. We found that the third point of view real-time reconstructed motion on a virtual avatar overlaid with the target pose effectively provides motion awareness and guidance while haptic feedback helps enhance users' motion accuracy and stability. Finally, we implemented \systemname to facilitate self-monitored post-operative exercises and validated its effectiveness through a clinical study with 10 patients.

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