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Continuously update the autonomous database works based on our past tutorials.
Kindly let us know if we have missed any great papers. Thank you!
Conference deadlines: https://github.com/ccfddl/ccf-deadlines
The up-to-date list of LLM4DB papers is moved to https://github.com/code4DB/LLM4DB
(Note conference postponement may not be promptly synchronized, so just consider it as a reference.)
- 0. Survey and Tutorial (16)
- 1. Database Configuration
- 2. Query Optimization
- 3. Workload Scheduling (2)
- 4. Database Design
- 5. Database Monitoring (12)
- 6. Database Diagnosis
- 7. General Techniques
- 8. Database Frameworks (18)
- 9. Demonstrations (13)
- S1. LLM x DB (33)
- S2. AI Resources (5)
- S3. Data And SQLs (3)
Great talks you should not miss >>
Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep : Towards Self-Driving Operation. Andy Pavlo, Matthew Butrovich, Lin Ma, et al. [link]
Towards instance-optimized data systems. Tim Kraska. [link]
AI-Native Database. Guoliang Li. [link]
From BERT to GPT-3 Codex: Harnessing the Potential of Very Large Language Models for Data Management. Immanuel Trummer. [link]
Retrieval-based Language Models and Applications. Akari Asai, Sewon Min, Zexuan Zhong, Danqi Chen. [link]
Database meets deep learning: Challenges and opportunities.
Wei Wang, Meihui Zhang, Gang Chen, et al. SIGMOD Record, 2016. [paper]
Database Meets Artificial Intelligence: A Survey. 
Xuanhe Zhou, Chengliang Chai, Guoliang Li, et al. TKDE, 2020. [paper]
A Survey on Advancing the DBMS Query Optimizer: Cardinality Estimation, Cost Model, and Plan Enumeration.
Hai Lan, Zhifeng Bao, Yuwei Peng. Data Science and Engineering, 2021. [paper]
A Survey on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Data Processing and Analytics.
Qingpeng Cai, Can Cui, Yiyuan Xiong, et al. TKDE, 2022. [paper]
Self-Driving Database Papers (CMU Spring Course). 2022.
https://15799.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2022/schedule.html
Automatic Database Knob Tuning: A Survey.
Xinyang Zhao, Xuanhe Zhou, Guoliang Li. TKDE, 2023. [paper] [code]
From auto-tuning one size fits all to self-designed and learned data-intensive systems.
Stratos Idreos, Tim Kraska. SIGMOD, 2019. [paper]
Speedup Your Analytics: Automatic Parameter Tuning for Databases and Big Data Systems.
Jiaheng Lu, Yuxing Chen, Herodotos Herodotou, Shivnath Babu. VLDB, 2019. [paper] [slides]
Tutorial: Adaptive Replication and Partitioning in Data Systems.
Brad Glasbergen, Michael Abebe, Khuzaima Daudjee. Middleware, 2018. [paper]
A Tutorial on Learned Multi-dimensional Indexes.
Abdullah Al-Mamun, Hao Wu, Walid G. Aref. SIGSPATIAL, 2020. [paper]
AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI.
Guoliang Li, Xuanhe Zhou, Lei Cao. SIGMOD, 2021. [paper] [slides]
Machine Learning for Databases.
Guoliang Li, Xuanhe Zhou, Lei Cao. VLDB, 2021. [paper] [slides]
Machine Learning for Cloud Data Systems: the Promise, the Progress, and the Path Forward.
Alekh Jindal, Matteo Interlandi. VLDB, 2021. [paper]
Workload-Aware Performance Tuning for Autonomous DBMSs.
Zhengtong Yan, Jiaheng Lu, Naresh Chainani, et al. ICDE, 2021. [paper]
Learned Query Optimizer: At the Forefront of AI-Driven Databases.
Zhu, Rong, Ziniu Wu, Chengliang Chai, et al. EDBT, 2022. [paper]
From BERT to GPT-3 Codex: Harnessing the Potential of Very Large Language Models for Data Management.
Immanuel Trummer. VLDB, 2022. [paper]
PGTune: https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua.
OpenTuner: An Extensible Framework for Program Autotuning
Ansel J, Kamil S, Veeramachaneni K, et al. PACT, 2014. [paper]
BestConfig: Tapping the Performance Potential of Systems via Automatic Configuration Tuning
Zhu Y, Liu J, Guo M, et al. SoCC, 2017. [paper]
BestConfig: Tapping the Performance Potential of Systems via Automatic Configuration Tuning
Zhu Y, Liu J, Guo M, et al. SoCC, 2017. [paper]
An Efficient Transfer Learning Based Configuration Adviser for Database Tuning 
Xinyi Zhang, Hong Wu, Yang Li, et al. VLDB, 2024. [paper]
Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned
Duan, S., Thummala, V., & Babu, S. VLDB, 2009. [paper]
Automatic database management system tuning through large-scale machine learning
Van Aken D, Pavlo A, Gordon G J, et al. SIGMOD, 2017. [paper]
Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics 
Kunjir M, Babu S. SIGMOD, 2020. [paper]
ResTune: Resource Oriented Tuning Boosted by Meta-Learning for Cloud Databases
Zhang X, Wu H, Chang Z, et al. SIGMOD, 2021. [paper]
CGPTuner: a Contextual Gaussian Process Bandit Approach for the Automatic Tuning of IT Configurations Under Varying Workload Conditions
Cereda S, Valladares S, Cremonesi P, et al. VLDB, 2021. [paper]
Towards Dynamic and Safe Configuration Tuning for Cloud Databases
Zhang X, Wu H, Li Y, et al. SIGMOD, 2022. [paper]
LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning
Kanellis K, Ding C, Kroth B, et al. VLDB, 2022. [paper]
VDTuner: Automated Performance Tuning for Vector Data Management Systems
Tiannuo Yang, Wen Hu, Wangqi Peng, Yusen Li, Jianguo Li, Gang Wang, Xiaoguang Liu. ICDE, 2024. [paper]
iBTune: Individualized Buffer Tuning for Large-scale Cloud Databases
Jian Tan, Tieying Zhang, Feifei Li, et al. VLDB, 2019. [paper]
UDO: Universal Database Optimization using Reinforcement Learning
Junxiong Wang, Immanuel Trummer, Debabrota Basu. VLDB, 2021. [paper]
An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Ji Zhang, Yu Liu, Ke Zhou, Guoliang Li, et al. SIGMOD, 2019. [paper]
QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Li G, Zhou X, Li S, et al. VLDB, 2019. [paper]
Watuning: A workload-aware tuning system with attention-based deep reinforcement learning
Ge J K, Chai Y F, Chai Y P. JCST, 2021. [paper]
The Case for NLP-Enhanced Database Tuning: Towards Tuning Tools that "Read the Manual"
Trummer I. VLDB, 2021. [paper]
DB-BERT: a Database Tuning Tool that “Reads the Manual”
Trummer I. SIGMOD, 2022. [paper]
HUNTER- An Online Cloud Database Hybrid Tuning System for Personalized Requirements
Cai B, Liu Y, Zhang C, et al. SIGMOD, 2022. [paper]
SARD: A statistical approach for ranking database tuning parameters
Debnath B K, Lilja D J, Mokbel M F. ICDE Workshops 2008. [paper]
Too Many Knobs to Tune? Towards Faster Database Tuning by Pre-selecting Important Knobs
Kanellis K, Alagappan R, Venkataraman S. HotStorage 2020. [paper]
IWEK: An Interpretable What-If Estimator for Database Knobs 
Yu Yan, Hongzhi Wang, Jian Geng, et al. arXiv 2023. [paper]
An inquiry into machine learning-based automatic configuration tuning services on real-world database management systems
Van Aken D, Yang D, Brillard S, et al. VLDB, 2021. [paper]
Facilitating Database Tuning with Hyper-Parameter Optimization- A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation
Zhang X, Chang Z, Li Y, et al. VLDB, 2022. [paper]
Selecting subexpressions to materialize at datacenter scale
A. Jindal, K. Karanasos, S. Rao, and H. Patel. PVLDB, 11(7):800–812, 2018. [paper]
Automated generation of materialized views in Oracle
Ahmed, R., Bello, R., Witkowski, A., & Kumar, P. (2020). VLDB, 2020. [paper]
Computation reuse in analytics job service at microsoft
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Automatic View Generation for Equivalent Subqueries with Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning
Yuan, H., Sun, J., & Li, G. (2020). ICDE, 2020. [paper]
An Autonomous Materialized View Management System with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Han, Y., Li, G., Yuan, H., & Sun, J. ICDE, 2021. [paper]
AutoView: An Autonomous Materialized View Management System with Encoder-Reducer
Han, Y., Li, G., Yuan, H. and Sun, J., TKDE, 2022. [paper]
Dynamic Materialized View Management using Graph Neural Network
Yue Han, Chengliang Chai, Jiabin Liu, Guoliang Li, Chuangxian Wei, Chaoqun Zhan. ICDE 2023. [paper]
A novel coral reefs optimization algorithm for materialized view selection in data warehouse environments
Azgomi, H. and Sohrabi, M.K., Applied Intelligence, 2019, 49, pp.3965-3989. [paper]
DBSP: Automatic Incremental View Maintenance for Rich Query Languages
Mihai Budiu, Tej Chajed, Frank McSherry, et al. VLDB, 2023. [paper]
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Matteo Brucato, Tarique Siddiqui, Wentao Wu, Vivek Narasayya, Surajit Chaudhuri. SIGMOD, 2024 [paper]
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Wii: Dynamic Budget Reallocation In Index Tuning
Xiaoying Wang, Wentao Wu, Chi Wang, Vivek Narasayya, Surajit Chaudhuri. SIGMOD, 2024
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Self-Selecting, Self-Tuning, Incrementally Optimized Indexes
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Concurrency control for adaptive indexing
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Database Cracking
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Merging what's cracked, cracking what's merged: adaptive indexing in main-memory column-stores
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Stochastic Database Cracking: Towards Robust Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores
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Holistic Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores
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Predictive indexing
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Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning.
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Query centric partitioning and allocation for partially replicated database systems.
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Workload-driven horizontal partitioning and pruning for large HTAP systems. 
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Towards learning a partitioning advisor with deep reinforcement learning.
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Fast and effective distribution-key recommendation for amazon redshift.
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Adaptive partitioning and indexing for in situ query processing.
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Learning a Partitioning Advisor for Cloud Databases.
Benjamin Hilprecht, Carsten Binnig, Uwe Röhm. SIGMOD, 2020. [paper]
Grep: A Graph Learning Based Database Partitioning System.
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Universal Database Optimization using Reinforcement Learning
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A Unified and Efficient Coordinating Framework for Autonomous DBMS Tuning
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(note other interesting problems like text2SQL are not within the scope)
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[DB Tuning] Bohan Zhang, Dana Van Aken, Justin Wang, Tao Dai, Shuli Jiang, Jacky Lao, Siyuan Sheng, Andrew Pavlo, Geoffrey J. Gordon. A Demonstration of the ottertune automatic database management system tuning service. VLDB, 2018. [paper]
[O&M Platform] Xuanhe Zhou, Lianyuan Jin, Ji Sun, Xinyang Zhao, Xiang Yu, Shifu Li, Tianqing Wang, Kun Li, luyang liu. DBMind: A Self-Driving Platform in openGauss. VLDB, 2021. [paper] [website]
[DB Tuning] Junxiong Wang, Immanuel Trummer, Debabrota Basu. Demonstrating UDO: A Unified Approach for Optimizing Transaction Code, Physical Design, and System Parameters via Reinforcement Learning. SIGMOD, 2021. [paper]
[DB Tuning] Immanuel Trummer. Demonstrating DB-BERT: A Database Tuning Tool that "Reads" the Manual. SIGMOD, 2022. [paper]
[DB Tuning] Luming Sun, Tao Ji, Cuiping Li, Hong Chen. DeepO: A Learned Query Optimizer. SIGMOD, 2022. [paper]
[DB Tuning] Xuanhe Zhou, Guoliang Li, Jianming Wu, Jiesi Liu, Zhaoyan Sun, Xinning Zhang. A Learned Query Rewrite System. VLDB, 2023. [paper] [website]
[DB Tuning] Wei Zhou, Chen Lin, Xuanhe Zhou, Guoliang Li, Tianqing Wang. Demonstration of ViTA: Visualizing, Testing and Analyzing Index Advisors. CIKM, 2023. [paper] [video]
[DB Tuning] Qiushi Bai, Sadeem Alsudais, Chen Li. Demo of QueryBooster: Supporting Middleware-based SQL Query Rewriting as a Service. VLDB, 2023. [paper]
[DB Tuning] Christoph Anneser, Mario Petruccelli, Nesime Tatbul, David Cohen, Zhenggang Xu, Prithviraj Pandian, Nikolay Laptev, Ryan Marcus, and Alfons Kemper. QO-Insight: Inspecting Steered Query Optimizers. VLDB, 2023. [paper]
[DB Tuning] Zilong Wang, Qixiong Zeng, Ning Wang, Haowen Lu, Yue Zhang. CEDA: Learned Cardinality Estimation with Domain Adaptation. VLDB, 2023. [paper]
[DB Tuning] Junxiong Wang, Immanuel Trummer, Ahmet Kara, Dan Olteanu. ADOPT: Adaptively Optimizing Attribute Orders for Worst-Case Optimal Join Algorithms via Reinforcement Learning. VLDB, 2023. [paper]
[DB Tuning] Immanuel Trummer. Demonstrating GPT-DB: Generating Query-Specifc and Customizable Code for SQL Processing with GPT-4. VLDB, 2023. [paper]
[DB Diagnosis] Xiu Tang, Sai Wu, Dongxiang Zhang, Ziyue Wang, Gongsheng Yuan, and Gang Chen. A Demonstration of DLBD: Database Logic Bug Detection System. VLDB, 2023. [paper]
𝜆-Tune: Harnessing Large Language Models for Automated Database System Tuning.
Victor Giannakouris, Immanuel Trummer. SIGMOD 2025 [paper]
Annotating Columns with Pre-trained Language Models. 
Y Suhara, J Li, Y Li, D Zhang, Ç Demiralp, C Chen, WC Tan. SIGMOD 2022 [paper]
Can LLM Already Serve as A Database Interface? A BIg Bench for Large-Scale Database Grounded Text-to-SQLs.
Jinyang Li, Binyuan Hui, Ge Qu, et al. NeurIPS, 2023. [pdf].
Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?
Avanika Narayan, Ines Chami, Laurel Orr, and Christopher Ré. VLDB, 2023. [pdf].
OmniscientDB: A Large Language Model-Augmented DBMS That Knows What Other DBMSs Do Not Know.
M Urban, DD Nguyen, C Binnig. aiDM@SIGMOD 2023 [paper]
DB-GPT: Large Language Model Meets Database.
Xuanhe Zhou, Zhaoyan Sun, Guoliang Li. Data Science and Engineering 2023. [pdf].
CatSQL: Towards Real World Natural Language to SQL Applications.
H Fu, C Liu, B Wu, F Li, J Tan, J Sun. VLDB 2023 [paper]
DeepJoin: Joinable Table Discovery with Pre-trained Language Models.
Y Dong, C Xiao, T Nozawa, M Enomoto, M Oyamada. VLDB 2023 [paper]
How Large Language Models Will Disrupt Data Management.
RC Fernandez, AJ Elmore, MJ Franklin, S Krishnan, C Tan. VLDB 2023 [paper]
Demonstrating GPT-DB: Generating Query-Specific and Customizable Code for SQL Processing with GPT-4.
I Trummer. VLDB 2023 [paper]
Can Large Language Models Predict Data Correlations from Column Names?
I Trummer. VLDB 2023
From BERT to GPT-3 Codex: Harnessing the Potential of Very Large Language Models for Data Management.
I Trummer. VLDB 2022 [paper]
CodexDB: Synthesizing Code for Query Processing from Natural Language Instructions using GPT-3 Codex.
I Trummer. VLDB 2022 [paper]
Analyzing How BERT Performs Entity Matching.
M Paganelli, F Del Buono, A Baraldi, F Guerra. VLDB 2022 [paper]
Schema Matching using Pre-Trained Language Models.
Y Zhang, A Floratou, J Cahoon, S Krishnan, AC Müller, D Banda, F Psallidas, JM Patel. ICDE 2023 [paper]
DB-BERT: a Database Tuning Tool that "Reads the Manual".
I Trummer. SIGMOD 2022 [paper]
GPTuner: A Manual-Reading Database Tuning System via GPT-Guided Bayesian Optimization.
Jiale Lao, Yibo Wang, Yufei Li, et al. VLDB, 2024. [pdf] [code]
Querying Large Language Models with SQL [Vision].
Mohammed Saeed, Nicola De Cao, Paolo Papotti. arXiv 2023. [pdf].
CAESURA: Language Models as Multi-Modal Query Planners.
Matthias Urban, Carsten Binnig. arXiv 2023. [pdf].
Towards Multi-Modal DBMSs for Seamless Querying of Texts and Tables.
Matthias Urban, Carsten Binnig. arXiv 2023. [pdf].
Multimodal Neural Databases.
Giovanni Trappolini, Andrea Santilli, Emanuele Rodolà, Alon Halevy, Fabrizio Silvestri. arXiv 2023. [pdf].
ChatDB: Augmenting LLMs with Databases AS Their Symbolic Memory.
Chenxu Hu, Jie Fu, Chenzhuang Du, Simian Luo, Junbo Zhao, Hang Zhao. arXiv 2023. [pdf].
Chat2DB 
From Large Language Models to Databases and Back A discussion on research and education.
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Angela Bonifati, Lei Chen, Guoliang Li, Kyuseok Shim, Jianliang Xu, Xiaochun Yang. arXiv 2023. [pdf]
Table-GPT: Table-tuned GPT for Diverse Table Tasks.
Peng Li, Yeye He, Dror Yashar, et al. arXiv 2023. [pdf]
Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention.
Woosuk Kwon, Zhuohan Li, Siyuan Zhuang, et al. arXiv 2023. [pdf].
PDFTriage: Question Answering over Long, Structured Documents.
Jon Saad-Falcon, Joe Barrow, Alexa Siu, et al. arXiv, 2023. [pdf].
Automatic Root Cause Analysis via Large Language Models for Cloud Incidents.
Yinfang Chen, Huaibing Xie, Minghua Ma, et al. arXiv 2023. [pdf]
LLM As DBA [Vision]. 
D-Bot: Database Diagnosis System using Large Language Models.
Xuanhe Zhou, Guoliang Li, Zhaoyan Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Weize Chen, et al. arXiv 2023. [pdf] [code].
DBCopilot: Scaling Natural Language Querying to Massive Databases.
Tianshu Wang, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, et al. arXiv, 2023. [pdf]
LLM-SQL-Solver: Can LLMs Determine SQL Equivalence?
Fuheng Zhao, Lawrence Lim, Ishtiyaque Ahmad, et al. arXiv, 2023. [pdf]
OpsEval: A Comprehensive Task-Oriented AIOps Benchmark for Large Language Models
Yuhe Liu, Changhua Pei, Longlong Xu, et al. arXiv, 2023. [pdf]
LLMTune: Accelerate Database Knob Tuning with Large Language Models
Xinmei Huang , Haoyang Li , Jing Zhang , Xinxin Zhao, Zhiming Yao, Yiyan Li, Zhuohao Yu, Tieying Zhang, Hong Chen, Cuiping Li. arxiv, 2024. [pdf]
Partially Filtered NLP Papers
Prompt Engineering for LLMs
https://www.promptingguide.ai/papers
Deployed AI Algorithms
https://github.com/labmlai/annotated_deep_learning_paper_implementations
LLM Statistics
https://aistratagems.com/large-language-model-llm-statistics/
ML System Papers
https://github.com/byungsoo-oh/ml-systems-papers?tab=readme-ov-file
https://github.com/cmu-db/benchbase
https://github.com/cwida/public_bi_benchmark/tree/dev/master
