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Abacus: A Cost-Based Optimizer for Semantic Operator Systems

Summary: Abacus: cost-based optimizer for semantic-operator pipelines over unstructured docs, choosing physical implementations of LLM maps/filters/joins under quality–cost–latency objectives. Uses few validation examples / priors / LLM judge to estimate operator performance and globally optimize end-to-end systems. (summarized by gpt-5.4-mini on Apr 12 2026)

Paper ID
14259
Venue
VLDB
Year
2026
Pagerank
5.6464993e-05
Overall Rank
5,171 | 64.03%
DOI
10.14778/3796195.3796215

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1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040449103
307 Extensible Query Processing in Starburst 1989 SIGMOD 0.00028211308
316 NoScope: Optimizing Neural Network Queries over Video at Scale 2017 VLDB 0.00027988668
696 BlazeIt: Optimizing Declarative Aggregation and Limit Queries for Neural Network-Based Video Analytics 2020 VLDB 0.00018048935
1,082 CAESURA: Language Models as Multi-Modal Query Planners 2024 CIDR 0.00014214232
1,619 Adaptive Optimization of Very Large Join Queries 2018 SIGMOD 0.00011111678
1,963 DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting and Evaluation for Complex Document Processing 2025 VLDB 9.929429e-05
2,106 Palimpzest: Optimizing AI-Powered Analytics with Declarative Query Processing 2025 CIDR 9.5342543e-05
3,876 The Design of an LLM-powered Unstructured Analytics System 2025 CIDR 6.6741456e-05
4,712 Accelerating Approximate Aggregation Queries with Expensive Predicates 2021 VLDB 5.9787986e-05
5,840 Logical and Physical Optimizations for SQL Query Execution over Large Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 5.3042561e-05
6,877 Extract-Transform-Load for Video Streams 2023 VLDB 4.8974054e-05
7,119 VectraFlow: Integrating Vectors into Stream Processing 2025 CIDR 4.8262611e-05
7,928 Accelerating Aggregation Queries on Unstructured Streams of Data 2023 VLDB 4.613455e-05
8,469 Semantic Operators and Their Optimization: Enabling LLM-Based Data Processing with Accuracy Guarantees in LOTUS 2025 VLDB 4.5041113e-05
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