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Beyond Storage: State as a Runtime Control Problem in Parallel and Distributed Systems

Shuhao Zhang, Haoran Peng, Chun Ho Ma, Yancan Mao, Yufeng Du, Shifeng Liu, Ruijie Qiu, Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin

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Published 2026-07-18 · First seen 2026-07-21

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Shared state increasingly shapes both performance and failure behavior in streaming, serving, retrieval, and continual-learning systems. Existing studies, however, often isolate access control, hardware-aware execution, memory management, and long-horizon updates. The review organizes this literature around three coupled dimensions: state access and scheduling, state-aware execution, and state evolution and reuse. Across these dimensions, the literature is synthesized through a common scaffold: state object, control surface, coupling path, evaluation boundary, and unresolved contract. This comparison identifies recurring anti-patterns and informs a contract-oriented blueprint and disturbance-aware evaluation agenda. Taken together, the evidence characterizes state management as a runtime control problem.

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@article{zhang2026beyond,
  title = {Beyond Storage: State as a Runtime Control Problem in Parallel and Distributed Systems},
  author = {Shuhao Zhang and Haoran Peng and Chun Ho Ma and Yancan Mao and Yufeng Du and Shifeng Liu and Ruijie Qiu and Xiaofei Liao and Hai Jin},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Shared state increasingly shapes both performance and failure behavior in streaming, serving, retrieval, and continual-learning systems. Existing studies, however, often isolate access control, hardware-aware execution, memory management, and long-horizon updates. The review organizes this literature around three coupled dimensions: state access and scheduling, state-aware execution, and state evolution and reuse. Across these dimensions, the literature is synthesized through a common scaffold: },
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16836},
  keywords = {cs.DC, cs.DB},
  eprint = {2607.16836},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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