Rethinking Learned Cost Models: Why Start from Scratch?

Summary: Tuning the cost model by identifying key parameters and using a fast-learning adjuster per hardware/software config. Dynamic partitioning of the config space refines estimates from rough to fine, enabling transferable performance across DBMS instances. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6776
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.6585812e-05
Overall Rank: 7,742 | 46.20%
DOI: 10.1145/3626769

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