Deep Learning: Systems and Responsibility

Summary: Tutorial framing DL from a data-systems view, detailing storage, data movement, and compute tradeoffs. Positions DL as a design option for data-system components and discusses deployment, data-management impact, responsibility, and performance implications. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hd79bedb38ef2768c
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.333141e-05
Overall Rank: 8,480 | 42.99%
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3457541

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Abdul Wasay (Harvard University)
2. Subarna Chatterjee (Harvard University)
3. Stratos Idreos (Harvard University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{wasay_sigmod21,
        title = {{Deep Learning: Systems and Responsibility}},
        author = {Wasay, Abdul and Chatterjee, Subarna and Idreos, Stratos},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3448016.3457541},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457541},
        year = {2021}
}

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4,442	From BERT to GPT-3 Codex: Harnessing the Potential of Very Large Language Models for Data Management	2022	VLDB	6.5988336e-05
5,609	Responsible Data Integration: Next-generation Challenges	2022	SIGMOD	6.0689501e-05
11,915	Machine Programming: Turning Data into Programmer Productivity	2022	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
40	The Case for Learned Index Structures	2018	SIGMOD	0.00046284649
158	Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2018	SIGMOD	0.00028046388
211	AliGraph: A Comprehensive Graph Neural Network Platform	2019	VLDB	0.00024816965
314	An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	2019	SIGMOD	0.00021282642
437	QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning	2019	VLDB	0.00018315867
555	SageDB: A Learned Database System	2019	CIDR	0.00016506678
1,580	Deep Learning Models for Selectivity Estimation of Multi-Attribute Queries	2020	SIGMOD	0.00010180835
1,605	The Data Calculator*: Data Structure Design and Cost Synthesis from First Principles and Learned Cost Models	2018	SIGMOD	0.00010093796
1,691	MISTIQUE: A System to Store and Query Model Intermediates for Model Diagnosis	2018	SIGMOD	9.8570722e-05
1,889	Design Continuums and the Path Toward Self-Designing Key-Value Stores that Know and Learn	2019	CIDR	9.4273689e-05
2,048	Automatically Generating Data Exploration Sessions Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	2020	SIGMOD	9.1229916e-05
3,140	DeepSqueeze: Deep Semantic Compression for Tabular Data	2020	SIGMOD	7.6023603e-05
3,401	A Demonstration of Willump: A Statistically-Aware End-to-end Optimizer for Machine Learning Inference	2020	VLDB	7.332823e-05
3,654	DeepTRANS: A Deep Learning System for Public Bus Travel Time Estimation using Traffic Forecasting	2020	VLDB	7.1276757e-05
3,984	Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis	2017	SIGMOD	6.8741188e-05
4,879	Accelerating Generalized Linear Models with MLWeaving: A One-Size-Fits-All System for Any-Precision Learning	2019	VLDB	6.3715334e-05
6,181	High-Dimensional Vector Similarity Search: From Time Series to Deep Network Embeddings	2020	SIGMOD	5.8595125e-05
6,246	ColumnML: Column-Store Machine Learning with On-The-Fly Data Transformation	2019	VLDB	5.8370793e-05
6,559	DeepBase: Deep Inspection of Neural Networks	2019	SIGMOD	5.7489089e-05
6,656	Natural Language Querying of Complex Business Intelligence Queries	2019	SIGMOD	5.7188709e-05
9,333	Deep Query Optimization	2019	SIGMOD	5.1922392e-05
9,395	MemFlow: Memory-Aware Distributed Deep Learning	2020	SIGMOD	5.1857503e-05
9,986	Learning to Generate Questions with Adaptive Copying Neural Networks	2019	SIGMOD	5.1005562e-05

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