Publication
One Model to Rule them All: Towards Zero-Shot Learning for Databases
Benjamin Hilprecht; Carsten Binnig
In: 12th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, CIDR 2022. Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR-2022), January 9-12, Chaminade, CA, USA, www.cidrdb.org, 2022.
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.