VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Shashank Giridhara
dblp:407/6936
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 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 · 100% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Query processing and optimization › query optimization
learned query optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Conformal Prediction for Verifiable Learned Query Optimization · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
conformal prediction · 0.9adaptive conformal prediction · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Conformal Prediction for Verifiable Learned Query OptimizationabstractQuery optimization is critical in relational databases. Recently, numerous Learned Query Optimizers (LQOs) have been proposed, demonstrating superior performance over traditional hand-crafted query optimizers after short training periods. However, the opacity and instability of machine learning models have limited their practical applications. To address this issue, we are the first to formulate the LQO verification as a Conformal Prediction (CP) problem. We first construct a CP model and obtain user-controlled bounded ranges for the actual latency of LQO plans before execution. Then, we introduce CP-based runtime verification along with violation handling to ensure performance prior to execution. For both scenarios, we further extend our framework to handle distribution shifts in the dynamic environment using adaptive CP approaches. Finally, we present CP-guided plan search, which uses actual latency upper bounds from CP to heuristically guide query plan construction. We integrated our verification framework into three LQOs (Balsa, Lero, and RTOS) and conducted evaluations on several workloads. Experimental results demonstrate that our method is both accurate and efficient. Our CP-based approaches achieve tight upper bounds, reliably detect and handle violations. Adaptive CP maintains accurate confidence levels even in the presence of distribution shifts, and the CP-guided plan search improves both query plan quality (up to 9.84x) and planning time, with a reduction of up to 74.4% for a single query and 9.96% across all test queries from trained LQOs. Shashank Giridhara, Ibrahim Sabek |
Proc. VLDB Endow. | 2 |