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CAESURA: Language Models as Multi-Modal Query Planners

Summary: Introduces Language-Model-Driven Query Planning: use LMs to translate natural-language queries into executable multi-modal query plans with operators over arbitrary modalities (images, text, video), unlike traditional SQL planners. Presents CAESURA, a GPT-4 prototype demonstrating feasibility on two datasets and proposing techniques to improve LM planning robustness for end-to-end multi-modal query execution. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hb5c73f7f2d7146cd
Venue
CIDR
Year
2024
Pagerank
0.0001495987
Overall Rank
669 | 95.51%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{urban_cidr24,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '24},
        title = {{CAESURA: Language Models as Multi-Modal Query Planners}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Urban, Matthias and Binnig, Carsten},
        year = {2024}
}

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