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Optimizations in a traditional compiler are applied sequentially, with each optimization destructively modifying the program to produce a transformed program that is then passed to the next optimization. We present a new approach for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Ross Tate , Michael Stepp , Zachary Tatlock , Sorin Lerner

Register allocation (mapping variables to processor registers or memory) and instruction scheduling (reordering instructions to increase instruction-level parallelism) are essential tasks for generating efficient assembly code in a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Roberto Castañeda Lozano , Christian Schulte

The operating system's role in a computer system is to manage the various resources. One of these resources is the Central Processing Unit. It is managed by a component of the operating system called the CPU scheduler. Schedulers are…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2010-11-09 George Anderson , Tshilidzi Marwala , Fulufhelo V. Nelwamondo

Query optimizers have long been considered as among the most complex components of a database engine, while the assessment of an optimizer's quality remains a challenging task. Indeed, existing performance benchmarks for database engines…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Zhan Li , Olga Papaemmanouil , Mitch Cherniack

Query optimization is a fundamental task in database systems that is crucial to providing high performance. To evaluate learned and traditional optimizer's performance, several benchmarks, such as the widely used JOB benchmark, are used.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Johannes Wehrstein , Timo Eckmann , Roman Heinrich , Carsten Binnig

Hardware acceleration of database query processing can be done with the help of FPGAs. In particular, they are partially reconfigurable at runtime, which allows for the runtime adaption of the hardware to a variety of queries.…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Lekshmi B. G. , Andreas Becher , Klaus Meyer-Wegener

Recent work in database query optimization has used complex machine learning strategies, such as customized reinforcement learning schemes. Surprisingly, we show that LLM embeddings of query text contain useful semantic information for…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Peter Akioyamen , Zixuan Yi , Ryan Marcus

Query optimization, which finds the optimized execution plan for a given query, is a complex planning and decision-making problem within the exponentially growing plan space in database management systems (DBMS). Traditional optimizers…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jie Tan , Kangfei Zhao , Rui Li , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Chengzhi Piao , Hong Cheng , Helen Meng , Deli Zhao , Yu Rong

Ontological queries are evaluated against a knowledge base consisting of an extensional database and an ontology (i.e., a set of logical assertions and constraints which derive new intensional knowledge from the extensional database),…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Georg Gottlob , Giorgio Orsi , Andreas Pieris

There is a trend towards increased specialization of data management software for performance reasons. In this paper, we study the automatic specialization and optimization of database application programs -- sequences of queries and…

Recent advances in query optimization have shifted from traditional rule-based and cost-based techniques towards machine learning-driven approaches. Among these, reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted significant attention due to its…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Seokwon Lee , Jaeyoung Sim , Sihyun Kim , Yuhsing Li , Yiwen Zhu , Kwanghyun Park

Since the mid-1990s, researchers have been trying to use machine-learning based approaches to solve a number of different compiler optimization problems. These techniques primarily enhance the quality of the obtained results and, more…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Amir H. Ashouri , William Killian , John Cavazos , Gianluca Palermo , Cristina Silvano

As quantum computers continue to improve and support larger, more complex computations, smart control hardware and compilers are needed to efficiently leverage the capabilities of these systems. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Folkert de Ronde , Alexander Knapen , Stephan Wong , Sebastian Feld

Many systems for big data analytics employ a data flow abstraction to define parallel data processing tasks. In this setting, custom operations expressed as user-defined functions are very common. We address the problem of performing data…

As the demand for computational power grows, optimizing code through compilers becomes increasingly crucial. In this context, we focus on fully automatic code optimization techniques that automate the process of selecting and applying code…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yacine Hakimi , Riyadh Baghdadi

Query processing in search engines can be optimized for use for all queries. For this, system component parameters such as the weighting function or the automatic query expansion model can be optimized or learned from past queries. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Josiane Mothe , Md Zia Ullah

In optimization or machine learning problems we are given a set of items, usually points in some metric space, and the goal is to minimize or maximize an objective function over some space of candidate solutions. For example, in clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Dan Feldman

Database system architectures are undergoing revolutionary changes. Algorithms and data are being unified by integrating programming languages with the database system. This gives an extensible object-relational system where non-procedural…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jim Gray

We identify two unreasonable, though standard, assumptions made by database query optimizers that can adversely affect the quality of the chosen evaluation plans. One assumption is that it is enough to optimize for the expected case---that…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Francis C. Chu , Joseph Y. Halpern , Praveen Seshadri

As database query processing techniques are being used to handle diverse workloads, a key emerging challenge is how to efficiently handle multi-way join queries containing multiple many-to-many joins. While uncommon in traditional…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hasara Kalumin , Amol Deshpande