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GPTuner: A Manual-Reading Database Tuning System via GPT-Guided Bayesian Optimization

Summary: GPTuner uses LLMs to ingest DBMS manuals/forums and extract structured domain knowledge to drive workload-aware knob selection and value-range pruning. A prompt-ensemble plus coarse-to-fine Bayesian optimization finds configs 16× faster and up to 30% better (TPC-C/TPC-H on Postgres/MySQL). (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h146dcc7a654d0651
Venue
VLDB
Year
2024
Pagerank
8.7924681e-05
Overall Rank
2,227 | 85.08%
DOI
10.14778/3659437.3659449
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BibTeX Citation

@article{lao_vldb24,
        title = {{GPTuner: A Manual-Reading Database Tuning System via GPT-Guided Bayesian Optimization}},
        author = {Lao, Jiale and Wang, Yibo and Li, Yufei and Wang, Jianping and Zhang, Yunjia and Cheng, Zhiyuan and Chen, Wanghu and Tang, Mingjie and Wang, Jianguo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '24},
        volume = {17},
        number = {8},
        pages = {1939--1952},
        doi = {10.14778/3659437.3659449},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3659437.3659449},
        year = {2024}
}

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