Carnot: Interpretable, Interactive, and Optimized Execution of Deep Research Queries
Summary: Carnot compiles natural-language research requests into editable execution graphs, exposing plans and intermediate results for human verification and correction. Users interactively steer execution while optimizing API cost or latency. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Aug 28 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Matthew Russo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2. Yash Agarwal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 3. Tianyu Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 4. Zhuohan Gu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 5. Michael Cafarella (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 6. Omar Khattab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 7. Tim Kraska (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 8. Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@article{russo_vldb26,
title = {{Carnot: Interpretable, Interactive, and Optimized Execution of Deep Research Queries}},
author = {Russo, Matthew and Agarwal, Yash and Li, Tianyu and Gu, Zhuohan and Cafarella, Michael and Khattab, Omar and Kraska, Tim and Madden, Samuel},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '26},
volume = {19},
number = {12},
pages = {4642--4645},
doi = {10.14778/3827988.3828086},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3827988.3828086},
year = {2026}
}
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| 683 | DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting and Evaluation for Complex Document Processing | 2025 | VLDB | 0.00014817539 |
| 748 | Palimpzest: Optimizing AI-Powered Analytics with Declarative Query Processing | 2025 | CIDR | 0.00014281926 |
| 2,982 | Semantic Operators and Their Optimization: Enabling LLM-Based Data Processing with Accuracy Guarantees in LOTUS | 2025 | VLDB | 7.7845174e-05 |
| 3,126 | Abacus: A Cost-Based Optimizer for Semantic Operator Systems | 2026 | VLDB | 7.6185225e-05 |
| 6,886 | Multi-Objective Agentic Rewrites for Unstructured Data Processing | 2026 | VLDB | 5.6551172e-05 |
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