Demonstration of Santoku: Optimizing Machine Learning over Normalized Data

Summary: Demonstrates Santoku, toolkit optimizing ML on normalized data with factorized learning and auto-decisions to denormalize or push via joins. Leverages FDs to surface feature insights and ships as an R library for ML on normalized data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11068
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.9236989e-05
Overall Rank: 4,785 | 66.72%
DOI: -

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4,129	Are Key-Foreign Key Joins Safe to Avoid when Learning High-Capacity Classifiers?	2018	VLDB	6.428887e-05
4,159	F: Regression Models over Factorized Views	2016	VLDB	6.3993326e-05
7,179	Coresets over Multiple Tables for Feature-rich and Data-efficient Machine Learning	2023	VLDB	4.8078895e-05
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8,864	Cerebro: A Layered Data Platform for Scalable Deep Learning	2021	CIDR	4.4326439e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
761	Materialization Optimizations for Feature Selection Workloads	2014	SIGMOD	0.00017053783
1,167	Learning Generalized Linear Models Over Normalized Data	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013547713
2,915	Brainwash: A Data System for Feature Engineering	2013	CIDR	7.9078385e-05
7,273	Feature Selection in Enterprise Analytics: A Demonstration using an R-based Data Analytics System	2013	VLDB	4.7810804e-05

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