[Submitted on 18 Jul 2026 (v1), last revised 27 Jul 2026 (this version, v2)]

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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.

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From: Shuhao Zhang [view email]
[v1] Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:21:39 UTC (480 KB)
[v2] Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:12:03 UTC (480 KB)