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Demo paper on Real-Time Multimodal Hybrid and Continuous Query Processing accepted at VLDB 2026
ARCADE: A Real-Time Data System for Hybrid and Continuous Query Processing across Diverse Data Modalities. Jingyi Yang, Songsong Mo, Jiachen Shi, Zihao Yu, Kunhao Shi, Xuchen Ding, Gao Cong.
Jun 3, 2026 1 min read
Demo paper on Real-Time Multimodal Hybrid and Continuous Query Processing accepted at VLDB 2026
Demo paper on Synthesizing Data Agent Trajectories at Scale accepted at VLDB 2026
Demonstrating TOFFEE: A Learned System for Synthesizing Data Agent Trajectories at Scale. Ziting Wang, Yin Li, Zuhao Yang, Xiuchang Li, Jiale Bai, Gao Cong.
Jun 3, 2026 1 min read
Demo paper on Synthesizing Data Agent Trajectories at Scale accepted at VLDB 2026
Paper on Benchmarking Data Agents over Heterogeneous Data accepted at KDD 2026
FDABench: A Benchmark for Data Agents on Analytical Queries over Heterogeneous Data. Ziting Wang, Shize Zhang, Haitao Yuan, Jinwei Zhu, Wei Dong, Gao Cong.
May 17, 2026 1 min read
Paper on Benchmarking Data Agents over Heterogeneous Data accepted at KDD 2026
Paper on Query Plan Representation accepted at PVLDB 2026
TATA: An Efficient Framework for Task Transfer in Query Plan Representation. Yue Zhao, Songsong Mo, Gao Cong.
Jan 30, 2026 1 min read
Paper on Query Plan Representation accepted at PVLDB 2026
Paper on Learned Index for Trajectory Data accepted at SIGMOD 2025
BT-Tree: A Reinforcement Learning Based Index for Big Trajectory Data. Tu Gu, Kaiyu Feng, Jingyi Yang, Gao Cong, Long Cheng, Rui Zhang.
Jun 1, 2025 1 min read
Paper on Learned Index for Trajectory Data accepted at SIGMOD 2025
Paper on LLM-enhanced Query Rewrite accepted at PVLDB 2025
LLM-R2: A Large Language Model Enhanced Rule-based Rewrite System for Boosting Query Efficiency. Zhaodonghui Li, Haitao Yuan, Huiming Wang, Gao Cong, Lidong Bing.
Jan 1, 2025 1 min read
Paper on LLM-enhanced Query Rewrite accepted at PVLDB 2025
Paper on Parametric Query Optimization accepted at PVLDB 2025
RankPQO: Learning-to-Rank for Parametric Query Optimization. Songsong Mo, Yue Zhao, Zhifeng Bao, Quanqing Xu, Chuanhui Yang, Gao Cong.
Jan 1, 2025 1 min read
Paper on Parametric Query Optimization accepted at PVLDB 2025
Tutorial on ML4DB accepted at SIGMOD 2024

Congratulations to Yang Jingyi and Zhao Yue for publishing the tutorial “Machine Learning for Databases: Foundations, Paradigms, and Open problems” at SIGMOD 2024.

May 2, 2024 1 min read
Tutorial on ML4DB accepted at SIGMOD 2024
Evaluation Paper on Query Plan Representation accepted at VLDB 2024

Congratulations to Zhao Yue and Li Zhaodonghui for publishing the paper “A Comparative Study and Component Analysis of Query Plan Representation Techniques in ML4DB Studies” at VLDB 2024.

May 1, 2024 2 min read
Evaluation Paper on Query Plan Representation accepted at VLDB 2024
Paper on learned R-tree packing accepted at SIGMOD 2024

Congratulations to Jingyi for publishing the paper “PLATON: Top-down R-tree Packing with Learned Partition Policy” at SIGMOD 2024.

Aug 26, 2023 1 min read
Paper on learned R-tree packing accepted at SIGMOD 2024