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Rethinking Learned Cost Models: Why Start from Scratch?

Summary: Tuning the cost model by identifying key parameters and using a fast-learning adjuster per hardware/software config. Dynamic partitioning of the config space refines estimates from rough to fine, enabling transferable performance across DBMS instances. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
he7a08ed1423c2cd1
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2023
Pagerank
5.6168499e-05
Overall Rank
7,033 | 52.72%
DOI
10.1145/3626769

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{yang_sigmod23,
        title = {{Rethinking Learned Cost Models: Why Start from Scratch?}},
        author = {Yang, Jiani and Wu, Sai and Zhang, Dongxiang and Dai, Jian and Li, Feifei and Chen, Gang},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3626769},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626769},
        year = {2023}
}

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10,336 An Elephant Under The Microscope: Analyzing The Interaction Of Optimizer Components In PostgreSQL 2025 SIGMOD 5.0200193e-05
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10,741 OBELISK: Efficient Offline Query Planning with Bayesian Optimization-Informed Language Model Reasoning 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,425 Learned Cost Models for Query Optimization: From Batch to Streaming Systems 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,430 AXE: A Task Decomposition Approach to Learned LSM Tuning 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0023947656
78 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00036684414
85 Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning 2019 CIDR 0.00035864347
145 Neo: A Learned Query Optimizer 2019 VLDB 0.0002908188
318 DeepDB: Learn from Data, not from Queries! 2020 VLDB 0.00021167555
322 Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned 2009 VLDB 0.00021041865
362 Bao: Making Learned Query Optimization Practical 2021 SIGMOD 0.00019989474
461 An End-to-End Learning-based Cost Estimator 2020 VLDB 0.00017829982
560 Plan-Structured Deep Neural Network Models for Query Performance Prediction 2019 VLDB 0.00016403151
682 Robust Estimation of Resource Consumption for SQL Queries using Statistical Techniques 2012 VLDB 0.0001481781
1,199 Balsa: Learning a Query Optimizer Without Expert Demonstrations 2022 SIGMOD 0.00011563985
2,210 Lero: A Learning-to-Rank Query Optimizer 2023 VLDB 8.8257742e-05
2,250 QueryFormer: A Tree Transformer Model for Query Plan Representation 2022 VLDB 8.7533306e-05
2,395 A Learned Query Rewrite System using Monte Carlo Tree Search 2022 VLDB 8.5281914e-05
2,583 Fauce: Fast and Accurate Deep Ensembles with Uncertainty for Cardinality Estimation 2021 VLDB 8.2589758e-05
2,834 Cost Models for Big Data Query Processing: Learning, Retrofitting, and Our Findings 2020 SIGMOD 7.9560627e-05
2,842 Query Performance Prediction for Concurrent Queries using Graph Embedding 2020 VLDB 7.949193e-05
2,885 Zero-Shot Cost Models for Out-of-the-box Learned Cost Prediction 2022 VLDB 7.9094988e-05
3,051 LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning 2022 VLDB 7.7055931e-05
3,486 HUNTER: An Online Cloud Database Hybrid Tuning System for Personalized Requirements 2022 SIGMOD 7.2636102e-05
3,978 Efficient Deep Learning Pipelines for Accurate Cost Estimations Over Large Scale Query Workload 2021 SIGMOD 6.8807882e-05
4,707 PreQR: Pre-training Representation for SQL Understanding 2022 SIGMOD 6.4587914e-05
5,194 Database Workload Characterization with Query Plan Encoders 2022 VLDB 6.2353557e-05
6,141 Expand your Training Limits! Generating Training Data for ML-based Data Management 2021 SIGMOD 5.8733296e-05
6,147 Sia: Optimizing Queries using Learned Predicates 2021 SIGMOD 5.8710365e-05
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