Alsatian: Optimizing Model Search for Deep Transfer Learning
Summary: Alsatian exploits shared model blocks, caching, and search-ordering to accelerate transfer-learning model search. This cache-aware, block-sharing approach reduces repeated inference across thousands of candidate models, yielding up to 14x speedups on CV/NLP benchmarks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Nils Strassenburg (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
- 2. Boris Glavic (University of Illinois Chicago)
- 3. Tilmann Rabl (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{strassenburg_sigmod25,
title = {{Alsatian: Optimizing Model Search for Deep Transfer Learning}},
author = {Strassenburg, Nils and Glavic, Boris and Rabl, Tilmann},
series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3725264},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3725264},
year = {2025}
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| 1,349 | Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00011069122 |
| 1,569 | HELIX: Holistic Optimization for Accelerating Iterative Machine Learning | 2019 | VLDB | 0.00010335423 |
| 4,240 | LIMA: Fine-grained Lineage Tracing and Reuse in Machine Learning Systems | 2021 | SIGMOD | 6.809685e-05 |
| 5,699 | Optimizing Machine Learning Workloads in Collaborative Environments | 2020 | SIGMOD | 6.1170243e-05 |
| 5,706 | SmartLite: A DBMS-based Serving System for DNN Inference in Resource-constrained Environments | 2024 | VLDB | 6.1144255e-05 |
| 7,656 | Nautilus: An Optimized System for Deep Transfer Learning over Evolving Training Datasets | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.5740571e-05 |
| 8,244 | SHiFT: An Efficient, Flexible Search Engine for Transfer Learning | 2023 | VLDB | 5.4587712e-05 |
| 8,737 | Sommelier: Curating DNN Models for the Masses | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.3766157e-05 |
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