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HELIX: Holistic Optimization for Accelerating Iterative Machine Learning

Summary: Holistic optimization across iterative ML workflows: caching/reusing intermediates or recomputing them via a Scala DSL for data prep, model spec, and learning. Reuse is a MAX-FLOW problem; caching is NP-hard but mitigated by lightweight heuristics, delivering up to 19x speedups over DeepDive/KeystoneML on NLP, CV, and science tasks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11978
Venue
VLDB
Year
2019
Pagerank
0.0001096361
Overall Rank
1,666 | 88.42%
DOI
10.14778/3297753.3297763

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7,482 Provenance-Enabled Explainable AI 2024 SIGMOD 4.7180617e-05
7,656 Nautilus: An Optimized System for Deep Transfer Learning over Evolving Training Datasets 2022 SIGMOD 4.6871575e-05
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761 Materialization Optimizations for Feature Selection Workloads 2014 SIGMOD 0.00017053783
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1,873 An Architecture for Compiling UDF-centric Workflows 2015 VLDB 0.00010253002
1,922 Selecting Subexpressions to Materialize at Datacenter Scale 2018 VLDB 0.00010082599
2,152 MISTIQUE: A System to Store and Query Model Intermediates for Model Diagnosis 2018 SIGMOD 9.4239787e-05
2,205 ReStore: Reusing Results of MapReduce Jobs 2012 VLDB 9.2920002e-05
2,915 Brainwash: A Data System for Feature Engineering 2013 CIDR 7.9078385e-05
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4,159 F: Regression Models over Factorized Views 2016 VLDB 6.3993326e-05
4,857 The "Big Data" Ecosystem at LinkedIn 2013 SIGMOD 5.8736144e-05
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