SHiFT: An Efficient, Flexible Search Engine for Transfer Learning

Summary: SHiFT: first downstream task-aware, flexible search engine over transfer-learning model repositories, exposing SHiFT-QL to express hybrid, task-specific model-selection criteria. Combines a cost-based optimizer and special incremental execution to evaluate queries efficiently for iterative ML workflows. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13143
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.5659133e-05
Overall Rank: 8,182 | 43.08%
DOI: 10.14778/3565816.3565831

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,469	Alsatian: Optimizing Model Search for Deep Transfer Learning	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,658	LLMLog: Advanced Log Template Generation via LLM-driven Multi-Round Annotation	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
192	HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference	2017	VLDB	0.00035728858
254	Snorkel: Rapid Training Data Creation with Weak Supervision	2018	VLDB	0.00030540555
683	Cerebro: A Data System for Optimized Deep Learning Model Selection	2020	VLDB	0.00018195476
791	ActiveClean: Interactive Data Cleaning For Statistical Modeling	2016	VLDB	0.00016629664
1,350	Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System	2018	VLDB	0.00012431059
1,391	Ease.ml: Towards Multi-tenant Resource Sharing for Machine Learning Workloads	2018	VLDB	0.0001223506
1,532	Data Management in Machine Learning: Challenges, Techniques, and Systems	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011472681
2,753	Complaint-driven Training Data Debugging for Query 2.0	2020	SIGMOD	8.1724339e-05
2,863	Incremental and Approximate Inference for Faster Occlusion-based Deep CNN Explanations	2019	SIGMOD	7.9877991e-05
3,140	ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples	2020	SIGMOD	7.4841763e-05
4,734	MLINSPECT: A Data Distribution Debugger for Machine Learning Pipelines	2021	SIGMOD	5.9615384e-05
6,228	Managing ML Pipelines: Feature Stores and the Coming Wave of Embedding Ecosystems	2021	VLDB	5.1470042e-05
9,117	Ease.ml in Action: Towards Multi-tenant Declarative Learning Services	2018	VLDB	4.3928617e-05
9,222	Towards an Optimized GROUP BY Abstraction for Large-Scale Machine Learning	2021	VLDB	4.3698672e-05
9,223	Intermittent Human-in-the-Loop Model Selection using Cerebro: A Demonstration	2021	VLDB	4.3698672e-05
11,310	Screening Native ML Pipelines with “ArgusEyes”	2022	CIDR	4.1945683e-05

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