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Alphabets, Grammars, Calculators, and the End of Hand-Crafted Systems
Summary: Models system design as an alphabet of low-level primitives and grammars so architectures become sentences, enabling automated “systems calculators” to synthesize blueprints on demand. Demonstrates synthesized data structures, NoSQL stores, storage+NN co-designs and training algorithms that outperform hand-crafted systems by up to orders of magnitude.
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 14199
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2025
- Pagerank
- -
- Overall Rank
- 13,156 | 8.57%
- DOI
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10.14778/3750601.3760522
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