Year: 2026
Type: preprint
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: 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.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Zhang, Shuhao, Peng, Haoran, Ma, Chun Ho, Mao, Yancan, Du, Yufeng, Liu, Shifeng, Qiu, Ruijie, Liao, Xiaofei, Jin, Hai
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7169873136
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