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Model-based reinforcement learning is a powerful tool, but collecting data to fit an accurate model of the system can be costly. Exploring an unknown environment in a sample-efficient manner is hence of great importance. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Matthieu Blanke , Marc Lelarge

We study learning-augmented binary search trees (BSTs) via Treaps with carefully designed priorities. The result is a simple search tree in which the depth of each item $x$ is determined by its predicted weight $w_x$. Specifically, each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jingbang Chen , Xinyuan Cao , Alicia Stepin , Li Chen

Scanning and filtering over multi-dimensional tables are key operations in modern analytical database engines. To optimize the performance of these operations, databases often create clustered indexes over a single dimension or…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Vikram Nathan , Jialin Ding , Mohammad Alizadeh , Tim Kraska

Joins are among the most time-consuming and data-intensive operations in relational query processing. Much research effort has been applied to the optimization of join processing due to their frequent execution. Recent studies have shown…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yuvaraj Chesetti , Prashant Pandey

Modern key-value stores rely heavily on Log-Structured Merge (LSM) trees for write optimization, but this design introduces significant read amplification. Auxiliary structures like Bloom filters help, but impose memory costs that scale…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Nicholas Fidalgo , Puyuan Ye

Learned Index Structures (LIS) have significantly advanced data management by leveraging machine learning models to optimize data indexing. However, designing these structures often involves critical trade-offs, making it challenging for…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Taiyi Wang , Liang Liang , Guang Yang , Thomas Heinis , Eiko Yoneki

Recent years, the database committee has attempted to develop automatic database management systems. Although some researches show that the applying AI to data management is a significant and promising direction, there still exists many…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yu Yan , Hongzhi Wang , Jian Ma , Jian Geng , Yuzhuo Wang

As a key ingredient of the DBMS, index plays an important role in the query optimization and processing. However, it is a non-trivial task to apply existing indexes or design new indexes for new applications, where both data distribution…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Sai Wu , Xinyi Yu , Xiaojie Feng , Feifei Li , Wei Cao , Gang Chen

Supervised machine learning and deep learning require a large amount of labeled data, which data scientists obtain in a manual, and time-consuming annotation process. To mitigate this challenge, Active Learning (AL) proposes promising data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Philipp Kohl , Nils Freyer , Yoka Krämer , Henri Werth , Steffen Wolf , Bodo Kraft , Matthias Meinecke , Albert Zündorf

Learned index structures aim to accelerate queries by training machine learning models to approximate the rank function associated with a database attribute. While effective in practice, their theoretical limitations are not fully…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Luis Alberto Croquevielle , Roman Sokolovskii , Thomas Heinis

The concept of learned index structures relies on the idea that the input-output functionality of a database index can be viewed as a prediction task and, thus, be implemented using a machine learning model instead of traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Evgenios M. Kornaropoulos , Silei Ren , Roberto Tamassia

Recent research on learned indexes has created a new perspective for indexes as models that map keys to their respective storage locations. These learned indexes are created to approximate the cumulative distribution function of the key…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Kasun Amarasinghe , Farhana Choudhury , Jianzhong Qi , James Bailey

Commercial off-the-shelf DataBase Management Systems (DBMSes) are highly optimized to process a wide range of queries by means of carefully designed indexing and query planning. However, many aggregate range queries are usually performed by…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Diego Pennino , Maurizio Pizzonia , Alessio Papi

Learned indexes fit machine learning (ML) models to the data and use them to make query operations more time and space-efficient. Recent works propose using learned spatial indexes to improve spatial query performance by optimizing the…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Sachith Pai , Michael Mathioudakis , Yanhao Wang

Reinforcement learning has recently been used to enhance index structures, giving rise to reinforcement learning-enhanced spatial indices (RLESIs) that aim to improve query efficiency during index construction. However, their practical…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Guanli Liu , Renata Borovica-Gajic , Hai Lan , Zhifeng Bao

Active learning (AL), which aims to construct an effective training set by iteratively curating the most formative unlabeled data for annotation, has been widely used in low-resource tasks. Most active learning techniques in classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yun Luo , Zhen Yang , Fandong Meng , Yingjie Li , Fang Guo , Qinglin Qi , Jie Zhou , Yue Zhang

GPU-based concurrent data structures (CDSs) achieve high throughput for read-only queries, but efficient support for dynamic updates on fully GPU-resident data remains challenging. Ordered CDSs (e.g., B-trees and LSM-trees) maintain an…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Rosina Kharal , Trevor Brown , Justus Henneberg , Felix Schuhknecht

We study the integration of machine learning advice to improve upon traditional data structure designed for efficient search queries. Although there has been recent effort in improving the performance of binary search trees using machine…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Chunkai Fu , Brandon G. Nguyen , Jung Hoon Seo , Ryan Zesch , Samson Zhou

There has been considerable research on automated index tuning in database management systems (DBMSs). But the majority of these solutions tune the index configuration by retrospectively making computationally expensive physical design…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Joy Arulraj , Ran Xian , Lin Ma , Andrew Pavlo

Spatial data is ubiquitous. Massive amounts of data are generated every day from billions of GPS-enabled devices such as cell phones, cars, sensors, and various consumer-based applications such as Uber, Tinder, location-tagged posts in…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Varun Pandey , Alexander van Renen , Andreas Kipf , Ibrahim Sabek , Jialin Ding , Alfons Kemper