ELEET: Efficient Learned Query Execution over Text and Tables

Summary: ELEET makes text first-class via learned multi-modal operators (MMOps), enabling native joins/unions over tables and unstructured text. Replacing LLMs with a compact SLM and tailored pretraining, ELEET extracts structure with low overhead and achieves up to 575× speedups vs GPT‑4 baselines without accuracy loss. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13916
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.9698795e-05
Overall Rank: 6,118 | 58.03%
DOI: 10.14778/3704965.3704989

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Authors

1. Matthias Urban (Technical University of Darmstadt)
2. Carsten Binnig (German National Research Center for Information Technology; Technical University of Darmstadt)

BibTeX Citation

@article{urban_vldb24,
        title = {{ELEET: Efficient Learned Query Execution over Text and Tables}},
        author = {Urban, Matthias and Binnig, Carsten},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '24},
        volume = {17},
        number = {13},
        pages = {4867--4880},
        doi = {10.14778/3704965.3704989},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3704965.3704989},
        year = {2024}
}

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319	Declarative Information Extraction Using Datalog with Embedded Extraction Predicates	2007	VLDB	0.00021377065
420	Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?	2023	VLDB	0.00018789852
579	Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive	2015	VLDB	0.00016217563
713	Language Models Enable Simple Systems for Generating Structured Views of Heterogeneous Data Lakes	2024	VLDB	0.00014672521
950	CAESURA: Language Models as Multi-Modal Query Planners	2024	CIDR	0.0001302491
1,337	DB-BERT: A Database Tuning Tool that "Reads the Manual"	2022	SIGMOD	0.00011117488
1,550	Symphony: Towards Natural Language Query Answering over Multi-modal Data Lakes	2023	CIDR	0.00010385904
1,728	Structured Querying of Web Text: A Technical Challenge	2007	CIDR	9.9098087e-05
2,099	Table-GPT: Table Fine-tuned GPT for Diverse Table Tasks	2024	SIGMOD	9.1682353e-05
2,244	Join Queries with External Text Sources: Execution and Optimization Techniques	1995	SIGMOD	8.8737737e-05
2,724	A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data	2007	VLDB	8.2048095e-05
2,790	GitTables: A Large-Scale Corpus of Relational Tables	2023	SIGMOD	8.1200509e-05
7,092	FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents	2023	SIGMOD	5.705818e-05
7,697	Subjective Databases	2019	VLDB	5.5659533e-05
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