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Abacus: A Cost-Based Optimizer for Semantic Operator Systems

Summary: Abacus: cost-based optimizer for semantic-operator pipelines over unstructured docs, choosing physical implementations of LLM maps/filters/joins under quality–cost–latency objectives. Uses few validation examples / priors / LLM judge to estimate operator performance and globally optimize end-to-end systems. (summarized by gpt-5.4-mini on Apr 12 2026)

Paper ID
hc78b9f6a64da2b78
Venue
VLDB
Year
2026
Pagerank
7.6185225e-05
Overall Rank
3,126 | 78.99%
DOI
10.14778/3796195.3796215

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BibTeX Citation

@article{russo_vldb26,
        title = {{Abacus: A Cost-Based Optimizer for Semantic Operator Systems}},
        author = {Russo, Matthew and Liu, Chunwei and Sudhir, Sivaprasad and Vitagliano, Gerardo and Cafarella, Michael and Kraska, Tim and Madden, Samuel},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '26},
        volume = {19},
        number = {5},
        pages = {1060--1073},
        doi = {10.14778/3796195.3796215},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3796195.3796215},
        year = {2026}
}

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