CLFeb 2Code
Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic IntelligenceKimi Team, Tongtong Bai, Yifan Bai et al.
We introduce Kimi K2.5, an open-source multimodal agentic model designed to advance general agentic intelligence. K2.5 emphasizes the joint optimization of text and vision so that two modalities enhance each other. This includes a series of techniques such as joint text-vision pre-training, zero-vision SFT, and joint text-vision reinforcement learning. Building on this multimodal foundation, K2.5 introduces Agent Swarm, a self-directed parallel agent orchestration framework that dynamically decomposes complex tasks into heterogeneous sub-problems and executes them concurrently. Extensive evaluations show that Kimi K2.5 achieves state-of-the-art results across various domains including coding, vision, reasoning, and agentic tasks. Agent Swarm also reduces latency by up to $4.5\times$ over single-agent baselines. We release the post-trained Kimi K2.5 model checkpoint to facilitate future research and real-world applications of agentic intelligence.
DCApr 16
Prefill-as-a-Service: KVCache of Next-Generation Models Could Go Cross-DatacenterRuoyu Qin, Weiran He, Yaoyu Wang et al.
Prefill-decode (PD) disaggregation has become the standard architecture for large-scale LLM serving, but in practice its deployment boundary is still determined by KVCache transfer. In conventional dense-attention models, prefill generates huge KVCache traffics that keep prefill and decode tightly coupled within a single high-bandwidth network domain, limiting heterogeneous deployment and resource elasticity. Recent hybrid-attention architectures substantially reduce KVCache size, making cross-cluster KVCache transport increasingly plausible. However, smaller KVCache alone does not make heterogeneous cross-datacenter PD serving practical: real workloads remain bursty, request lengths are highly skewed, prefix caches are unevenly distributed, and inter-cluster bandwidth fluctuates. A naive design that fully externalizes prefill can therefore still suffer from congestion, unstable queueing, and poor utilization. We present Prefill-as-a-Service (PrfaaS), a cross-datacenter serving architecture that selectively offloads long-context prefill to standalone, compute-dense prefill clusters and transfers the resulting KVCache over commodity Ethernet to local PD clusters for decode. Rather than treating reduced KVCache as sufficient, PrfaaS combines model-side KV efficiency with system-side selective offloading, bandwidth-aware scheduling, and cache-aware request placement. This design removes the requirement that heterogeneous accelerators share the same low-latency RDMA fabric, enabling independent scaling of prefill and decode capacity across loosely coupled clusters. In a case study using an internal 1T-parameter hybrid model, a PrfaaS-augmented heterogeneous deployment achieves 54% and 32% higher serving throughput than homogeneous PD and naive heterogeneous baselines, respectively, while consuming only modest cross-datacenter bandwidth.
LGJul 28, 2025Code
Kimi K2: Open Agentic IntelligenceKimi Team, Yifan Bai, Yiping Bao et al. · tsinghua
We introduce Kimi K2, a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large language model with 32 billion activated parameters and 1 trillion total parameters. We propose the MuonClip optimizer, which improves upon Muon with a novel QK-clip technique to address training instability while enjoying the advanced token efficiency of Muon. Based on MuonClip, K2 was pre-trained on 15.5 trillion tokens with zero loss spike. During post-training, K2 undergoes a multi-stage post-training process, highlighted by a large-scale agentic data synthesis pipeline and a joint reinforcement learning (RL) stage, where the model improves its capabilities through interactions with real and synthetic environments. Kimi K2 achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source non-thinking models, with strengths in agentic capabilities. Notably, K2 obtains 66.1 on Tau2-Bench, 76.5 on ACEBench (En), 65.8 on SWE-Bench Verified, and 47.3 on SWE-Bench Multilingual -- surpassing most open and closed-sourced baselines in non-thinking settings. It also exhibits strong capabilities in coding, mathematics, and reasoning tasks, with a score of 53.7 on LiveCodeBench v6, 49.5 on AIME 2025, 75.1 on GPQA-Diamond, and 27.1 on OJBench, all without extended thinking. These results position Kimi K2 as one of the most capable open-source large language models to date, particularly in software engineering and agentic tasks. We release our base and post-trained model checkpoints to facilitate future research and applications of agentic intelligence.
DBMar 23
FuzzySQL: Uncovering Hidden Vulnerabilities in DBMS Special Features with LLM-Driven FuzzingYongxin Chen, Zhiyuan Jiang, Chao Zhang et al.
Traditional database fuzzing techniques primarily focus on syntactic correctness and general SQL structures, leaving critical yet obscure DBMS features, such as system-level modes (e.g., GTID), programmatic constructs (e.g., PROCEDURE), advanced process commands (e.g., KILL), largely underexplored. Although rarely triggered by typical inputs, these features can lead to severe crashes or security issues when executed under edge-case conditions. In this paper, we present FuzzySQL, a novel LLM-powered adaptive fuzzing framework designed to uncover subtle vulnerabilities in DBMS special features. FuzzySQL combines grammar-guided SQL generation with logic-shifting progressive mutation, a novel technique that explores alternative control paths by negating conditions and restructuring execution logic, synthesizing structurally and semantically diverse test cases. To further ensure deeper execution coverage of the back end, FuzzySQL employs a hybrid error repair pipeline that unifies rule-based patching with LLM-driven semantic repair, enabling automatic correction of syntactic and context-sensitive failures. We evaluate FuzzySQL across multiple DBMSs, including MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL and Clickhouse, uncovering 64 vulnerabilities, 27 of which are tied to under-tested DBMS special features. As of this writing, 60 cases have been confirmed with 9 assigned CVE identifiers, 31 already fixed by vendors, and additional vulnerabilities scheduled to be patched in upcoming releases. Our results highlight the limitations of conventional fuzzers in semantic feature coverage and demonstrate the potential of LLM-based fuzzing to discover deeply hidden bugs in complex database systems.
DCApr 1
TENT: A Declarative Slice Spraying Engine for Performant and Resilient Data Movement in Disaggregated LLM ServingFeng Ren, Ruoyu Qin, Teng Ma et al.
Modern GPU clusters are built upon a complex hierarchy of heterogeneous interconnects, ranging from multi-rail RDMA to proprietary fabrics such as Multi-Node NVLink and Ascend UB. Orchestrating these diverse links effectively remains a critical challenge in disaggregated LLM serving. Operating Mooncake TE on thousands of GPUs exposed a critical limitation shared by existing frameworks: imperative, statically bound path selection. This rigidity forces engines to rely on state-blind striping that ignores congestion signals, creating communication silos, wasting multi-rail bandwidth due to head-of-line blocking, and leading to operational fragility where routine faults require manual intervention. We present TENT, a data-movement engine that decouples transfer intent from physical execution. Instead of locking workloads to fixed backends, TENT unifies heterogeneous interconnects into a single dynamic resource pool. Applications simply declare transfer intents, while TENT dynamically decomposes elephant flows into fine-grained slices and "sprays" them across links based on instantaneous link quality. This telemetry-driven orchestration eliminates head-of-line blocking and enables transparent, sub-50 ms self-healing by rerouting slices around failures without application logic. TENT serves as the production data plane for LLM inference and RL pipelines at multiple industrial sites. Our evaluation on H800 HGX clusters shows that TENT outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, including Mooncake TE, NIXL, and UCCL. In LLM inference with SGLang HiCache, TENT achieves up to 1.36x higher throughput and 26% lower P90 TTFT than Mooncake TE. In RL pipelines, TENT accelerates parameter updates in Moonshot Checkpoint Engine by 20-26%.
DCJun 24, 2024
Mooncake: A KVCache-centric Disaggregated Architecture for LLM ServingRuoyu Qin, Zheming Li, Weiran He et al.
Mooncake is the serving platform for Kimi, a leading LLM service provided by Moonshot AI. It features a KVCache-centric disaggregated architecture that separates the prefill and decoding clusters. It also leverages the underutilized CPU, DRAM, and SSD resources of the GPU cluster to implement a disaggregated cache of KVCache. The core of Mooncake is its KVCache-centric scheduler, which balances maximizing overall effective throughput while meeting latency-related Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Unlike traditional studies that assume all requests will be processed, Mooncake faces challenges due to highly overloaded scenarios. To mitigate these, we developed a prediction-based early rejection policy. Experiments show that Mooncake excels in long-context scenarios. Compared to the baseline method, Mooncake can achieve up to a 525% increase in throughput in certain simulated scenarios while adhering to SLOs. Under real workloads, Mooncake's innovative architecture enables Kimi to handle 75% more requests.
AIAug 24, 2021
Identification of Pediatric Respiratory Diseases Using Fine-grained Diagnosis SystemGang Yu, Zhongzhi Yu, Yemin Shi et al.
Respiratory diseases, including asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, and upper respiratory tract infection (RTI), are among the most common diseases in clinics. The similarities among the symptoms of these diseases precludes prompt diagnosis upon the patients' arrival. In pediatrics, the patients' limited ability in expressing their situation makes precise diagnosis even harder. This becomes worse in primary hospitals, where the lack of medical imaging devices and the doctors' limited experience further increase the difficulty of distinguishing among similar diseases. In this paper, a pediatric fine-grained diagnosis-assistant system is proposed to provide prompt and precise diagnosis using solely clinical notes upon admission, which would assist clinicians without changing the diagnostic process. The proposed system consists of two stages: a test result structuralization stage and a disease identification stage. The first stage structuralizes test results by extracting relevant numerical values from clinical notes, and the disease identification stage provides a diagnosis based on text-form clinical notes and the structured data obtained from the first stage. A novel deep learning algorithm was developed for the disease identification stage, where techniques including adaptive feature infusion and multi-modal attentive fusion were introduced to fuse structured and text data together. Clinical notes from over 12000 patients with respiratory diseases were used to train a deep learning model, and clinical notes from a non-overlapping set of about 1800 patients were used to evaluate the performance of the trained model. The average precisions (AP) for pneumonia, RTI, bronchitis and asthma are 0.878, 0.857, 0.714, and 0.825, respectively, achieving a mean AP (mAP) of 0.819.