VISTA: Optimized System for Declarative Feature Transfer from Deep CNNs at Scale

Summary: VISTA provides a declarative interface for feature transfer from CNNs on images, unifying scalable dataflow and deep learning systems. It auto-optimizes configuration and execution to reduce redundant computation and memory crashes, delivering 58-92% faster runtimes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h932de1e9506841b9
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 7.146238e-05
Overall Rank: 3,632 | 75.59%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3389709

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Authors

1. Supun Nakandala (University of California San Diego)
2. Arun Kumar (University of California San Diego)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{nakandala_sigmod20,
        title = {{VISTA: Optimized System for Declarative Feature Transfer from Deep CNNs at Scale}},
        author = {Nakandala, Supun and Kumar, Arun},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3389709},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3389709},
        year = {2020}
}

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3,286	Camel: Managing Data for Efficient Stream Learning	2022	SIGMOD	7.4524975e-05
3,399	Orca: Scalable Temporal Graph Neural Network Training with Theoretical Guarantees	2023	SIGMOD	7.3314353e-05
4,097	Distributed Deep Learning on Data Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches	2021	VLDB	6.8064316e-05
4,721	OmniFair: A Declarative System for Model-Agnostic Group Fairness in Machine Learning	2021	SIGMOD	6.451752e-05
5,805	Top-K Deep Video Analytics: A Probabilistic Approach	2021	SIGMOD	5.9861675e-05
7,816	Nautilus: An Optimized System for Deep Transfer Learning over Evolving Training Datasets	2022	SIGMOD	5.446446e-05
9,153	Cerebro: A Layered Data Platform for Scalable Deep Learning	2021	CIDR	5.217676e-05
9,402	GraphGem: Optimized Scalable System for Graph Convolutional Networks	2021	SIGMOD	5.1836053e-05
13,694	Reimagining Deep Learning Systems Through the Lens of Data Systems	2024	VLDB	-

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125	Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates	1993	SIGMOD	0.00030462671
128	An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems	1985	VLDB	0.00030399615
521	Learning Linear Regression Models over Factorized Joins	2016	SIGMOD	0.00016923519
654	Materialization Optimizations for Feature Selection Workloads	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015096817
731	Learning Generalized Linear Models Over Normalized Data	2015	SIGMOD	0.00014400356
940	Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics	2011	CIDR	0.00012959992
1,257	Towards Linear Algebra over Normalized Data	2017	VLDB	0.0001130959
7,542	Feature Selection in Enterprise Analytics: A Demonstration using an R-based Data Analytics System	2013	VLDB	5.4976824e-05

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