Nicolas Kim

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper
Query processing and optimization · 36% Database theory · 28% Machine learning and data management · 28%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Database theory › integrity constraints
semantic integrity constraints
0.912025
Semantic Integrity Constraints: Declarative Guardrails for AI-Augmented Data Processing Systems · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025
Query processing and optimization
semantic query processing
0.912025
Semantic Integrity Constraints: Declarative Guardrails for AI-Augmented Data Processing Systems · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025
Transaction processing and concurrency control › data integrity
integrity constraint enforcement
0.312025
Semantic Integrity Constraints: Declarative Guardrails for AI-Augmented Data Processing Systems · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025
Query processing and optimization
query planning
0.312025
Semantic Integrity Constraints: Declarative Guardrails for AI-Augmented Data Processing Systems · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

large language model · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Semantic Integrity Constraints: Declarative Guardrails for AI-Augmented Data Processing Systems
abstract
AI-augmented data processing systems (DPSs) integrate large language models (LLMs) into query pipelines, allowing powerful semantic operations on structured and unstructured data. However, the reliability (a.k.a. trust) of these systems is fundamentally challenged by the potential for LLMs to produce errors, limiting their adoption in critical domains. To help address this reliability bottleneck, we introduce semantic integrity constraints (SICs) —a declarative abstraction for specifying and enforcing correctness conditions over LLM outputs in semantic queries. SICs generalize traditional database integrity constraints to semantic settings, supporting common types of constraints, such as grounding, soundness, and exclusion, with both reactive and proactive enforcement strategies. We argue that SICs provide a foundation for building reliable and auditable AI-augmented data systems. Specifically, we present a system design for integrating SICs into query planning and runtime execution and discuss its realization in AI-augmented DPSs. To guide and evaluate our vision, we outline several design goals—covering criteria around expressiveness, runtime semantics, integration, performance, and enterprise-scale applicability—and discuss how our framework addresses each, along with open research challenges.
Alexander W. Lee, Justin Chan, Nicolas Kim, Akshay Mehta, Deepti Raghavan, Ugur Çetintemel
Proc. VLDB Endow.4