Towards Zero-Shot Learning for Databases

Paper: http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2022/papers/p16-hilprecht.pdf
Authors: Benjamin Hilprecht (TU Darmstadt)*; Carsten Binnig (TU Darmstadt)

Abstract

In this paper, we present our vision of so called zero-shot learning for databases which is a new learning approach for database components. Zero-shot learning for databases is inspired by recent advances in transfer learning of models such as GPT-3 and can support a new database out-of-the box without the need to train a new model. Furthermore, it can easily be extended to few-shot learning by further retraining the model on the unseen database.

As a first concrete contribution in this paper, we show the feasibility of zero-shot learning for the task of physical cost estimation and present very promising initial results. Moreover, as a second contribution we discuss the core challenges related to zero-shot learning for databases and present a roadmap to extend zero-shot learning towards many other tasks beyond cost estimation or even beyond classical database systems and workloads.

Learned databased github: https://github.com/topics/learned-database

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