Publications

Generative Text Modeling and Language-Guided Visual Attention for Deciphering Palimpsests

Robin Hollifeldt, Tianru Zhang, Jessica Ström, Ekta Vats. In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026. PDF · DOI

ReStore-in-Action: Adaptive Multi-Tier Storage Management via Intelligent Data Migration Policy

Shadman Saqib Eusuf, Tianru Zhang, Teona Bagashvili, Manos Athanassoulis, Tarikul Islam Papon. In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2026. PDF · DOI

ReStore: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Data Migration in Multi-Tiered Storage

Tianru Zhang, Tarikul Islam Papon, Teona Bagashvili, Salman Toor, Manos Athanassoulis. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2026. PDF · DOI

Intelligent Data Management via Machine Learning: From Storage Hierarchy to Information Hierarchy

Tianru Zhang. PhD thesis, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2025. DiVA

InfoHier: Hierarchical Information Extraction via Encoding and Embedding

Tianru Zhang, Li Ju, Prashant Singh, Salman Toor. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.08717, 2025. PDF

ReStore: RL-Based Data Migration for Multi-Tiered Storage

Tarikul Islam Papon, Tianru Zhang, Salman Toor, Manos Athanassoulis, North East Database Day 2025, 2025. PDF · DOI

Accelerating fair federated learning: Adaptive federated adam

Li Ju, Tianru Zhang, Salman Toor, Andreas Hellander. IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, 2:1017–1032, 2024. PDF · DOI

Blades: A unified benchmark suite for byzantine attacks and defenses in federated learning

Shenghui Li, Edith C.-H. Ngai, Fanghua Ye, Li Ju, Tianru Zhang, Thiemo Voigt. In 2024 IEEE/ACM Ninth International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), pages 158–169, 2024. PDF · DOI

Autonomous Hierarchical Storage Management via Reinforcement Learning

Tianru Zhang. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (ISSN 2150-8097), 2024. PDF · DOI

Data management of scientific applications in a reinforcement learning-based hierarchical storage system

Tianru Zhang, Ankit Gupta, María Andreína Francisco Rodríguez, Ola Spjuth, Andreas Hellander, Salman Toor. Expert Systems with Applications, 121443, 2023. PDF · DOI

Efficient hierarchical storage management empowered by reinforcement learning extended abstract

Tianru Zhang, Andreas Hellander, Salman Toor. In 2023 IEEE 39th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 3869–3870, 2023. PDF · DOI

Efficient hierarchical storage management empowered by reinforcement learning

Tianru Zhang, Andreas Hellander, Salman Toor. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 35(6):5780–5793, 2022. PDF · DOI