Alphabets, Grammars, Calculators, and the End of Hand-Crafted Systems
Summary: Proposes “systems calculators” that synthesize architectures by composing low-level design primitives under grammars, replacing hand-crafted system templates. Demonstrations discover optimized data structures, NoSQL stores, storage/ML co-designs, and distributed training algorithms at dramatic speedups. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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- 1. Stratos Idreos (Harvard University)
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@article{idreos_vldb25,
title = {{Alphabets, Grammars, Calculators, and the End of Hand-Crafted Systems}},
author = {Idreos, Stratos},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '25},
volume = {18},
number = {12},
pages = {5537--5537},
doi = {10.14778/3750601.3760522},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3750601.3760522},
year = {2025}
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