Automating and Optimizing Data-Centric What-If Analyses on Native Machine Learning Pipelines
Summary: mlwhatif declaratively specifies data-centric what-if analyses over ML pipelines and auto-generates variants via patches. A 4-rule optimizer executes variants; instrumented dataflow plans enable linear speedups (up to 13x) and data-size independence. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Stefan Grafberger (University of Amsterdam)
- 2. Paul Groth (University of Amsterdam)
- 3. Sebastian Schelter (University of Amsterdam)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{grafberger_sigmod23,
title = {{Automating and Optimizing Data-Centric What-If Analyses on Native Machine Learning Pipelines}},
author = {Grafberger, Stefan and Groth, Paul and Schelter, Sebastian},
series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3589273},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589273},
year = {2023}
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| 6,747 | Mitigating the Impedance Mismatch between Prediction Query Execution and Database Engine | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.6883491e-05 |
| 7,635 | mlwhatif: What If You Could Stop Re-Implementing Your Machine Learning Pipeline Analyses Over and Over? | 2023 | VLDB | 5.4777741e-05 |
| 9,126 | Modyn: Data-Centric Machine Learning Pipeline Orchestration | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.2238659e-05 |
| 10,048 | The Image Calculator: 10x Faster Image-AI Inference by Replacing JPEG with Self-designing Storage Format | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.0896901e-05 |
| 10,526 | Understanding the Impact of Data Noise in Federated Learning: [Experiments & Analysis] | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,907 | stratum: A System Infrastructure for Massive Agent-Centric ML Workloads | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,954 | Morphing-based Compression for Data-centric ML Pipelines | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 11,413 | mlidea: Interactively Improving ML Data Preparation Code via “Shadow Pipelines” | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
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