Banooqa Banday

Banooqa Banday, Kowshik Thopalli, Tanzima Z. Islam et al.

LLM-based data generation for real-world tabular data can be challenged by the lack of sufficient semantic context in feature names used to describe columns. We hypothesize that enriching prompts with domain-specific insights can improve both the quality and efficiency of data generation. To test this hypothesis, we explore three prompt construction protocols: Expert-guided, LLM-guided, and Novel-Mapping. Through empirical studies with the recently proposed GReaT framework, we find that context-enriched prompts lead to significantly improved data generation quality and training efficiency.

Ankur Lahiry, Banooqa Banday, Tanzima Z. Islam

High-performance computing (HPC) systems expose many interdependent configuration knobs that impact runtime, resource usage, power, and variability. Existing predictive tools model these outcomes, but do not support structured exploration, explanation, or guided reconfiguration. We present WANDER, a decision-support framework that synthesizes alternate configurations using counterfactual analysis aligned with user goals and constraints. We introduce a composite trade-off score that ranks suggestions based on prediction uncertainty, consistency between feature-target relationships using causal models, and similarity between feature distributions against historical data. To our knowledge, WANDER is the first such system to unify prediction, exploration, and explanation for HPC tuning under a common query interface. Across multiple datasets WANDER generates interpretable and trustworthy, human-readable alternatives that guide users to achieve their performance objectives.

Ankur Lahiry, Ayush Pokharel, Banooqa Banday et al.

Large-scale GPU traces play a critical role in identifying performance bottlenecks within heterogeneous High-Performance Computing (HPC) architectures. However, the sheer volume and complexity of a single trace of data make performance analysis both computationally expensive and time-consuming. To address this challenge, we present an end-to-end parallel performance analysis framework designed to handle multiple large-scale GPU traces efficiently. Our proposed framework partitions and processes trace data concurrently and employs causal graph methods and parallel coordinating chart to expose performance variability and dependencies across execution flows. Experimental results demonstrate a 67% improvement in terms of scalability, highlighting the effectiveness of our pipeline for analyzing multiple traces independently.