RIB: Robust Learning-based Index Benefit Estimation

Summary: Robust learned index-benefit estimation for index tuning under noisy telemetry. RIB combines a context-aware bidirectional GNN encoder with fully parameterized quantile regression to curb epistemic/aleatoric label noise and improve recommendation quality. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Apr 11 2026)

Paper ID: hc9b052188816d6b2
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 4.9605343e-05
Overall Rank: 10,753 | 27.93%
DOI: 10.1145/3786691
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Authors

1. Sifan Chen (Fudan University)
2. Chenning Wu (Fudan University)
3. Yinan Jing (Fudan University)
4. Wentao Wu (Microsoft)
5. Zhenying He (Fudan University)
6. Kai Zhang (Fudan University)
7. X. Sean Wang (Fudan University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chen_sigmod26,
        title = {{RIB: Robust Learning-based Index Benefit Estimation}},
        author = {Chen, Sifan and Wu, Chenning and Jing, Yinan and Wu, Wentao and He, Zhenying and Zhang, Kai and Wang, X. Sean},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '26},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3786691},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786691},
        year = {2026}
}

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380	AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility	1998	SIGMOD	0.00019530546
568	Towards a Robust Query Optimizer: A Principled and Practical Approach	2005	SIGMOD	0.00016221103
1,282	AI Meets AI: Leveraging Query Executions to Improve Index Recommendations	2019	SIGMOD	0.00011197535
1,400	Magic mirror in my hand, which is the best in the land? An Experimental Evaluation of Index Selection Algorithms	2020	VLDB	0.00010759064
1,831	Least Expected Cost Query Optimization: What Can We Expect?	2002	PODS	9.5366955e-05
2,036	Efficient Use of the Query Optimizer for Automated Physical Design	2007	VLDB	9.1356845e-05
4,629	Index Interactions in Physical Design Tuning: Modeling, Analysis, and Applications	2009	VLDB	6.4794914e-05
4,726	Learned Index Benefits: Machine Learning Based Index Performance Estimation	2022	VLDB	6.4329878e-05
4,990	Budget-aware Index Tuning with Reinforcement Learning	2022	SIGMOD	6.3120056e-05
5,484	A Comparative Study and Component Analysis of Query Plan Representation Techniques in ML4DB Studies	2024	VLDB	6.0980944e-05
5,645	ISUM: Efficiently Compressing Large and Complex Workloads for Scalable Index Tuning	2022	SIGMOD	6.0354456e-05
5,670	Uncertainty Aware Query Execution Time Prediction	2014	VLDB	6.0266818e-05
6,121	Breaking It Down: An In-depth Study of Index Advisors	2024	VLDB	5.863893e-05
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7,989	Leveraging Dynamic and Heterogeneous Workload Knowledge to Boost the Performance of Index Advisors	2024	VLDB	5.3951416e-05
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