Databases as Graphs: Predictive Queries for Declarative Machine Learning

Summary: Kumo provides a SQL-like Predictive Query language that compiles relational schemas into a heterogeneous hypergraph abstraction. Distributed GNNs trained on that graph auto-learn cross-table embeddings for in‑DB predictions, eliminating manual feature engineering and enabling scalable production ML. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1936
Venue: PODS
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.3817447e-05
Overall Rank: 8,702 | 40.30%
DOI: 10.1145/3584372.3589939

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Authors

1. Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{leskovec_pods23,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '23},
        title = {{Databases as Graphs: Predictive Queries for Declarative Machine Learning}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3584372.3589939},
        doi = {10.1145/3584372.3589939},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Leskovec, Jure},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,826	Fully Dynamic Algorithms for Graph Databases with Edge Differential Privacy	2025	PODS	5.7621757e-05

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