VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Haritha Ananthakrishnan
dblp:245/4256 · also Haritha A
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Query processing and optimization · 50% Information retrieval · 50% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Language models and text generation · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval › query formulation
query generation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | QueryGym: Step-by-Step Interaction with Relational Databases · AAAI 2026 |
Query processing and optimization
query planning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | QueryGym: Step-by-Step Interaction with Relational Databases · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
reinforcement learning · 2.0large language model · 2.0gymnasium interface · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | QueryGym: Step-by-Step Interaction with Relational DatabasesabstractWe introduce QueryGym, an interactive environment for building, testing, and evaluating LLM-based query planning agents. Existing frameworks often tie agents to specific query language dialects or obscure their reasoning; QueryGym instead requires agents to construct explicit sequences of relational algebra operations, ensuring engine-agnostic evaluation and transparent step-by-step planning. The environment is implemented as a Gymnasium interface that supplies observations---including schema details, intermediate results, and execution feedback---and receives actions that represent database exploration (e.g., previewing tables, sampling column values, retrieving unique values) as well as relational algebra operations (e.g., filter, project, join).We detail the motivation and the design of the environment. In the demo, we showcase the utility of the environment by contrasting it with contemporary LLMs that query databases. QueryGym serves as a practical testbed for research in error remediation, transparency, and reinforcement learning for query generation. Haritha Ananthakrishnan, Harsha Kokel, Kelsey Sikes, Debarun Bhattacharjya, Michael Katz 0001, Shirin Sohrabi, Kavitha Srinivas |
AAAI | 1 |