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Sema: A High-performance System for LLM-based Semantic Query Processing

Summary: SemaSQL makes LLM operators first-class in DuckDB, embedding natural-language expressions in SQL for end-to-end optimization. Constraint-aware rewriting and adaptive execution reorder/fuse operators and batch prompts, yielding 2–10× speedups under accuracy and token/latency objectives. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Aug 28 2026)

Paper ID
h2dae9c4c30d32c54
Venue
VLDB
Year
2026
Pagerank
4.9605343e-05
Overall Rank
10,928 | 26.75%
DOI
10.14778/3836663.3836685
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@article{qi_vldb26,
        title = {{Sema: A High-performance System for LLM-based Semantic Query Processing}},
        author = {Qi, Kangkang and Xie, Dongyang and Li, Wenbo and Zhang, Hao and Zhu, Yuanyuan and Yu, Jeffrey Xu and Zhao, Kangfei},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '26},
        volume = {19},
        number = {11},
        pages = {3231--3244},
        doi = {10.14778/3836663.3836685},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3836663.3836685},
        year = {2026}
}

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5,064 Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB 2025 VLDB 6.2791311e-05
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