Libra: One-Shot Parameter Sensitivity Estimation for Transfer Learning in Database Performance Prediction

Summary: Libra is a transfer-learning framework for DBMS performance prediction that predicts a target context’s parameter-sensitivity profile in one shot, then retrieves the most similar source context. It avoids negative transfer by focusing sampling on high-impact parameters, yielding up to 32x less sampling and large error reductions across 161 contexts. (summarized by gpt-5.4-mini on Apr 12 2026)

Paper ID: 14385
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 10,340 | 28.14%
DOI: 10.14778/3796195.3796207

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Authors

1. Tatsuhiro Nakamori
2. Hideyuki Kawashima

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423	Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned	2009	VLDB	0.00023628474
510	An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	2019	SIGMOD	0.00021420477
876	Plan-Structured Deep Neural Network Models for Query Performance Prediction	2019	VLDB	0.00015660534
1,816	An Inquiry into Machine Learning-based Automatic Configuration Tuning Services on Real-World Database Management Systems	2021	VLDB	0.00010438512
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3,995	ResTune: Resource Oriented Tuning Boosted by Meta-Learning for Cloud Databases	2021	SIGMOD	6.5475871e-05
4,180	LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning	2022	VLDB	6.3725334e-05
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