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: 11069
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.910645e-05
Overall Rank: 4,794 | 66.69%
DOI: -

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2,197	Enabling and Optimizing Non-linear Feature Interactions in Factorized Linear Algebra	2019	SIGMOD	9.3117431e-05
4,123	Are Key-Foreign Key Joins Safe to Avoid when Learning High-Capacity Classifiers?	2018	VLDB	6.4290005e-05
4,195	F: Regression Models over Factorized Views	2016	VLDB	6.3635322e-05
7,180	Coresets over Multiple Tables for Feature-rich and Data-efficient Machine Learning	2023	VLDB	4.8032775e-05
8,593	Towards A Polyglot Framework for Factorized ML	2021	VLDB	4.4846362e-05
8,864	Cerebro: A Layered Data Platform for Scalable Deep Learning	2021	CIDR	4.4283952e-05
9,225	Towards an Optimized GROUP BY Abstraction for Large-Scale Machine Learning	2021	VLDB	4.3656789e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
758	Materialization Optimizations for Feature Selection Workloads	2014	SIGMOD	0.00017053915
1,172	Learning Generalized Linear Models Over Normalized Data	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013504249
2,919	Brainwash: A Data System for Feature Engineering	2013	CIDR	7.9017482e-05
7,270	Feature Selection in Enterprise Analytics: A Demonstration using an R-based Data Analytics System	2013	VLDB	4.776491e-05

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