MLog: Towards Declarative In-Database Machine Learning

Summary: Declarative in-database ML with MLog automates data movement, persistence, and training optimizations via tensoral views (TViews). Express models via cascaded TViews, and compile them to native TensorFlow programs with performance comparable to hand-optimized. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11678
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 7.3667971e-05
Overall Rank: 3,490 | 76.06%
DOI: 10.14778/3137765.3137808

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Authors

1. Xupeng Li (Peking University)
2. Bin Cui (Peking University)
3. Yiru Chen (Peking University)
4. Wentao Wu (Microsoft)
5. Ce Zhang (ETH Zurich)

BibTeX Citation

@article{li_vldb17,
        title = {{MLog: Towards Declarative In-Database Machine Learning}},
        author = {Li, Xupeng and Cui, Bin and Chen, Yiru and Wu, Wentao and Zhang, Ce},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1933--1936},
        doi = {10.14778/3137765.3137808},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137765.3137808},
        year = {2017}
}

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6,585	JoinBoost: Grow Trees Over Normalized Data Using Only SQL	2023	VLDB	5.8350362e-05
6,614	Mitigating the Impedance Mismatch between Prediction Query Execution and Database Engine	2025	SIGMOD	5.8216658e-05
6,628	ConnectorX: Accelerating Data Loading From Databases to Dataframes	2022	VLDB	5.8197537e-05
8,450	Not Black-Box Anymore! Enabling Analytics-Aware Optimizations in Teradata Vantage	2021	VLDB	5.4231788e-05
9,672	DimBoost: Boosting Gradient Boosting Decision Tree to Higher Dimensions	2018	SIGMOD	5.2386185e-05
9,840	Distributed Numerical and Machine Learning Computations via Two-Phase Execution of Aggregated Join Trees	2021	VLDB	5.2103367e-05
10,418	MorphingDB: A Task-Centric AI-Native DBMS for Model Management and Inference	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,209	Database Native Model Selection: Harnessing Deep Neural Networks in Database Systems	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
106	The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL	2012	VLDB	0.00033539462
239	Overview of SciDB: Large Scale Array Storage, Processing and Analysis	2010	SIGMOD	0.00023674329
536	Learning Linear Regression Models over Factorized Joins	2016	SIGMOD	0.0001693369
715	Learning Generalized Linear Models Over Normalized Data	2015	SIGMOD	0.00014655327
2,162	Heterogeneity-aware Distributed Parameter Servers	2017	SIGMOD	9.0581831e-05
5,850	Parallelizing Datalog Programs by Generalized Pivoting	1991	PODS	6.0664613e-05

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