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MCTuner: Spatial Decomposition-Enhanced Database Tuning via LLM-Guided Exploration

Summary: MCTuner uses a Mixture-of-Experts of LLMs to pinpoint performance‑critical knobs and avoid ineffective regions in high‑dimensional config spaces. Its recursive spatial decomposition runs Bayesian optimization on hierarchical subspaces, yielding up to 19.2% gains and 1.4× faster discovery versus SOTA. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 11 2026)

Paper ID
h7d7e1f2c79122917
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2026
Pagerank
4.9769913e-05
Overall Rank
10,591 | 28.82%
DOI
10.1145/3769807

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@inproceedings{yan_sigmod26,
        title = {{MCTuner: Spatial Decomposition-Enhanced Database Tuning via LLM-Guided Exploration}},
        author = {Yan, Zihan and Xi, Rui and Hou, Mengshu},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '26},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3769807},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3769807},
        year = {2026}
}

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