BABOONS: Black-Box Optimization of Data Summaries in Natural Language

Summary: BABOONS optimizes natural-language data summaries as a black box under a user-defined utility, via RL with LLM scoring; utilities can be given in natural language or a domain model. Scalable evaluation via proactive query merging, sampling, and batching. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12781
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 11,386 | 20.87%
DOI: 10.14778/3551793.3551846

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Authors

1. Immanuel Trummer

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