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In this demo, we realize data indexes that can morph from being write-optimized at times to being read-optimized at other times nonstop with zero-down time during the workload transitioning. These data indexes are useful for HTAP systems…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Lu Xing , Walid G. Aref

LSM-tree-based data stores are widely used in industry due to their exceptional performance. However, as data volumes grow, efficiently querying large-scale databases becomes increasingly challenging. To address this, recent studies…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Junfeng Liu , Jiarui Ye , Mengshi Chen , Meng Li , Siqiang Luo

Learned indices using neural networks have been shown to outperform traditional indices such as B-trees in both query time and memory. However, learning the distribution of a large dataset can be expensive, and updating learned indices is…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Guanli Liu , Lars Kulik , Xingjun Ma , Jianzhong Qi

Indexes are critical for efficient data retrieval and updates in modern databases. Recent advances in machine learning have led to the development of learned indexes, which model the cumulative distribution function of data to predict…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Xinyi Zhang , Liang Liang , Anastasia Ailamaki , Jianliang Xu

A fundamental problem in data management is to find the elements in an array that match a query. Recently, learned indexes are being extensively used to solve this problem, where they learn a model to predict the location of the items in…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Sepanta Zeighami , Cyrus Shahabi

Learned indices have been proposed to replace classic index structures like B-Tree with machine learning (ML) models. They require to replace both the indices and query processing algorithms currently deployed by the databases, and such a…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tu Gu , Kaiyu Feng , Gao Cong , Cheng Long , Zheng Wang , Sheng Wang

The growth in data storage capacity and the increasing demands for high performance have created several challenges for concurrent indexing structures. One promising solution is learned indexes, which use a learning-based approach to fit…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiake Ge , Huanchen Zhang , Boyu Shi , Yuanhui Luo , Yunda Guo , Yunpeng Chai , Yuxing Chen , Anqun Pan

In this paper, we introduce DobLIX, a dual-objective learned index specifically designed for Log-Structured Merge(LSM) tree-based key-value stores. Although traditional learned indexes focus exclusively on optimizing index lookups, they…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alireza Heidari , Amirhossein Ahmadi , Wei Zhang

The static nature of knowledge within Large Language Models (LLMs) makes it difficult for them to adapt to evolving information, rendering knowledge editing a critical task. However, existing methods struggle with challenges of scalability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Minghu Wang , Shuliang Zhao , Yuanyuan Zhao , Hongxia Xu

An active learning (AL) algorithm seeks to construct an effective classifier with a minimal number of labeled examples in a bootstrapping manner. While standard AL heuristics, such as selecting those points for annotation for which a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Ishani Mondal , Debasis Ganguly

Efficiently querying data on embedded sensor and IoT devices is challenging given the very limited memory and CPU resources. With the increasing volumes of collected data, it is critical to process, filter, and manipulate data on the edge…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-07 David Ding , Ivan Carvalho , Ramon Lawrence

HTAP systems are designed to handle transactional and analytical workloads. Besides a mixed workload at any given time, the workload can also change over time. A popular type of continuously changing workload is one that oscillates between…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Lu Xing , Ruihong Wang , Walid G. Aref

The recent proposal of learned index structures opens up a new perspective on how traditional range indexes can be optimized. However, the current learned indexes assume the data distribution is relatively static and the access pattern is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Chuzhe Tang , Zhiyuan Dong , Minjie Wang , Zhaoguo Wang , Haibo Chen

While early empirical evidence has supported the case for learned index structures as having favourable average-case performance, little is known about their worst-case performance. By contrast, classical structures are known to achieve…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Matthias Bachfischer , Renata Borovica-Gajic , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

There is great excitement about learned index structures, but understandable skepticism about the practicality of a new method uprooting decades of research on B-Trees. In this paper, we work to remove some of that uncertainty by…

A recent research trend involves treating database index structures as Machine Learning (ML) models. In this domain, single or multiple ML models are trained to learn the mapping from keys to positions inside a data set. This class of…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Abdullah Al-Mamun , Hao Wu , Qiyang He , Jianguo Wang , Walid G. Aref

A growing trend in modern data analysis is the integration of data management with learning, guided by accuracy, latency, and cost requirements. In practice, applications draw data of different formats from many sources. In the meanwhile,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Meihui Zhang , Liming Wang , Chi Zhang , Zhaojing Luo

Efficient indexing is fundamental for multi-dimensional data management and analytics. An emerging tendency is to directly learn the storage layout of multi-dimensional data by simple machine learning models, yielding the concept of Learned…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Qiyu Liu , Maocheng Li , Yuxiang Zeng , Yanyan Shen , Lei Chen

Indexes provide a method to access data in databases quickly. It can improve the response speed of subsequent queries by building a complete index in advance. However, it also leads to a huge overhead of the continuous updating during…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Gang Wu , Yidong Song , Guodong Zhao , Wei Sun , Donghong Han , Baiyou Qiao , Guoren Wang , Ye Yuan

Indexing is an effective way to support efficient query processing in large databases. Recently the concept of learned index, which replaces or complements traditional index structures with machine learning models, has been actively…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Yao Tian , Tingyun Yan , Xi Zhao , Kai Huang , Xiaofang Zhou