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Esc: An Early-Stopping Checker for Budget-aware Index Tuning

Summary: Identifies diminishing returns in budget-aware index tuning caused by expensive what-if optimizer calls and proposes early stopping via a user-specified tolerable-loss threshold that projects the impact of the remaining budget. Introduces Esc, a low-overhead checker that halts tuning when projected quality loss is below the threshold, drastically reducing what-if calls on benchmarks and real workloads with minimal or zero index-quality degradation. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
13797
Venue
VLDB
Year
2025
Pagerank
4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank
10,552 | 26.67%
DOI
10.14778/3718057.3718059

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