VISTA: Optimized System for Declarative Feature Transfer from Deep CNNs at Scale

Summary: VISTA provides a declarative interface for feature transfer from CNNs on images, unifying scalable dataflow and deep learning systems. It auto-optimizes configuration and execution to reduce redundant computation and memory crashes, delivering 58-92% faster runtimes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5986
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 7.2977194e-05
Overall Rank: 3,573 | 75.49%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3389709

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Authors

1. Supun Nakandala (University of California San Diego)
2. Arun Kumar (University of California San Diego)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{nakandala_sigmod20,
        title = {{VISTA: Optimized System for Declarative Feature Transfer from Deep CNNs at Scale}},
        author = {Nakandala, Supun and Kumar, Arun},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3389709},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3389709},
        year = {2020}
}

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3,221	Camel: Managing Data for Efficient Stream Learning	2022	SIGMOD	7.6271601e-05
3,634	Orca: Scalable Temporal Graph Neural Network Training with Theoretical Guarantees	2023	SIGMOD	7.2358691e-05
4,067	Distributed Deep Learning on Data Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches	2021	VLDB	6.9293511e-05
4,658	OmniFair: A Declarative System for Model-Agnostic Group Fairness in Machine Learning	2021	SIGMOD	6.5817368e-05
5,827	Top-K Deep Video Analytics: A Probabilistic Approach	2021	SIGMOD	6.0744172e-05
7,656	Nautilus: An Optimized System for Deep Transfer Learning over Evolving Training Datasets	2022	SIGMOD	5.5740571e-05
8,979	Cerebro: A Layered Data Platform for Scalable Deep Learning	2021	CIDR	5.3399615e-05
9,217	GraphGem: Optimized Scalable System for Graph Convolutional Networks	2021	SIGMOD	5.3050378e-05
13,375	Reimagining Deep Learning Systems Through the Lens of Data Systems	2024	VLDB	-

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132	Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates	1993	SIGMOD	0.00030378624
135	An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems	1985	VLDB	0.00030209257
536	Learning Linear Regression Models over Factorized Joins	2016	SIGMOD	0.0001693369
640	Materialization Optimizations for Feature Selection Workloads	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015409494
715	Learning Generalized Linear Models Over Normalized Data	2015	SIGMOD	0.00014655327
923	Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics	2011	CIDR	0.00013189886
1,235	Towards Linear Algebra over Normalized Data	2017	VLDB	0.00011548457
7,403	Feature Selection in Enterprise Analytics: A Demonstration using an R-based Data Analytics System	2013	VLDB	5.6249895e-05

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