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One Model to Rule them All: Towards Zero-Shot Learning for Databases

Summary: Propose zero-shot DB components: one transfer-learned model usable on new databases out-of-the-box, avoiding per-database training and allowing few-shot refinement. Demonstrate feasibility for physical cost estimation with promising results and outline challenges and a roadmap to generalize zero-shot to other DB tasks/systems. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
443
Venue
CIDR
Year
2022
Pagerank
5.6007779e-05
Overall Rank
5,250 | 63.52%
DOI
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