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Database Management Systems (DBMS) are crucial for efficient data management and access control, but their administration remains challenging for Database Administrators (DBAs). Tuning, in particular, is known to be difficult. Modern…

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We introduce {\lambda}-Tune, a framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) for automated database system tuning. The design of {\lambda}-Tune is motivated by the capabilities of the latest generation of LLMs. Different from prior…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Victor Giannankouris , Immanuel Trummer

DB-BERT is a database tuning tool that exploits information gained via natural language analysis of manuals and other relevant text documents. It uses text to identify database system parameters to tune as well as recommended parameter…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Immanuel Trummer

Like any large software system, a full-fledged DBMS offers an overwhelming amount of configuration knobs. These range from static initialisation parameters like buffer sizes, degree of concurrency, or level of replication to complex runtime…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Ankur Sharma , Felix Martin Schuhknecht , Jens Dittrich

MLtuner automatically tunes settings for training tunables (such as the learning rate, the momentum, the mini-batch size, and the data staleness bound) that have a significant impact on large-scale machine learning (ML) performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Henggang Cui , Gregory R. Ganger , Phillip B. Gibbons

Bayesian optimization is proposed for automatic learning of optimal controller parameters from experimental data. A probabilistic description (a Gaussian process) is used to model the unknown function from controller parameters to a…

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The knob tuning aims to optimize database performance by searching for the most effective knob configuration under a certain workload. Existing works suffer two significant problems. On the one hand, there exist multiple similar even…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yu Yan , Junfang Huang , Hongzhi Wang , Jian Geng , Kaixin Zhang , Tao Yu

Many artificial intelligence models process input data of different lengths and resolutions, making the shape of the tensors dynamic. The performance of these models depends on the shape of the tensors, which makes it difficult to optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Pengyu Mu , Linquan Wei , Yi Liu , Rui Wang

Recently using machine learning (ML) based techniques to optimize modern database management systems has attracted intensive interest from both industry and academia. With an objective to tune a specific component of a DBMS (e.g., index…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Xinyi Zhang , Zhuo Chang , Hong Wu , Yang Li , Jia Chen , Jian Tan , Feifei Li , Bin Cui

Modern compilers typically provide hundreds of options to optimize program performance, but users often cannot fully leverage them due to the huge number of options. While standard optimization combinations (e.g., -O3) provide reasonable…

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Deep learning has recently become one of the most compute/data-intensive methods and is widely used in many research areas and businesses. One of the critical challenges of deep learning is that it has many parameters that can be adjusted,…

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In the financial industry, data is the lifeblood of operations, and DBAs shoulder significant responsibilities for SQL tuning, database deployment, diagnosis, and service repair. In recent years, both database vendors and customers have…

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The process of optimizing the latency of DNN operators with ML models and hardware-in-the-loop, called auto-tuning, has established itself as a pervasive method for the deployment of neural networks. From a search space of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Dennis Rieber , Moritz Reiber , Oliver Bringmann , Holger Fröning

Controller tuning and parameter optimization are crucial in system design to improve closed-loop system performance. Bayesian optimization has been established as an efficient model-free controller tuning and adaptation method. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Christopher König , Raamadaas Krishnadas , Efe C. Balta , Alisa Rupenyan

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

DBTuneSuite is a suite of experiments on four widely deployed free database systems to test their performance under various query/upsert loads and under various tuning options. The suite provides: (i) scripts to generate data and to install…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Amani Agrawal , Tianxin Wang , Dennis Shasha

Machine learning (ML) methods have recently emerged as an effective way to perform automated parameter tuning of databases. State-of-the-art approaches include Bayesian optimization (BO) and reinforcement learning (RL). In this work, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Thomas Schmied , Diego Didona , Andreas Döring , Thomas Parnell , Nikolas Ioannou

While hyper-parameters (HPs) are important for knowledge graph (KG) learning, existing methods fail to search them efficiently. To solve this problem, we first analyze the properties of different HPs and measure the transfer ability from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Yongqi Zhang , Zhanke Zhou , Quanming Yao , Yong Li

Databases are fundamental to contemporary information systems, yet traditional rule-based configuration methods struggle to manage the complexity of real-world applications with hundreds of tunable parameters. Deep reinforcement learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Jiahan Chen , Shuhan Qi , Yifan Li , Zeyu Dong , Mingfeng Ding , Yulin Wu , Xuan Wang

Automatic performance tuning (auto-tuning) is widely used to optimize performance-critical applications across many scientific domains by finding the best program variant among many choices. Efficient optimization algorithms are crucial for…

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