Loom: Criticality Inference via Efficient Causal Dependency Graph Mining

Qianlong Sang, Yuheng Li, Junsheng He, Chuang Hu, Yili Gong, Xiaobo Zhou, Dazhao Cheng
August, 2026

Abstract

Loom identifies dynamically changing rendering-critical threads and execution slices with lightweight dependency tracing and streaming causal-graph mining. It then applies slice-level resource control to improve responsiveness and energy efficiency in complex interactive workloads.

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Manuscript
Publication
Under review
Critical Thread Identification Causal Graph Mining Mobile Systems Scheduling
Qianlong Sang
Qianlong Sang
Fifth-Year Computer Science
Ph.D. Student

My research focuses on operating systems, mobile and edge systems, and efficient on-device AI inference.