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Zequn Li 0007
dblp:408/0650
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0005-9827-576XORCID · conflict
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 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 · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Knowledge representation and reasoning · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Query processing and optimization
query optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | DocDB: A Database for Unstructured Document Analysis · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning › knowledge acquisition › knowledge extraction
attribute extraction |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | DocDB: A Database for Unstructured Document Analysis · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
two-level index · 1.7large language model · 1.7adaptive execution · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | DocDB: A Database for Unstructured Document AnalysisabstractRecent studies have developed LLM-powered data systems that enable database-like analysis of unstructured text documents. While LLMs excel at attribute extraction from documents, their high computational costs and latency make extraction operations the primary performance bottleneck. Existing systems typically adopt traditional relational database query optimization strategies, which prove ineffective in minimizing LLM-related expenses. To fill this gap, we propose DocDB, a prototype system that features a bunch of novel optimization strategies designated to unstructured document analysis. First, we employ a two-level index to reduce LLM extraction costs by selectively retrieving and processing only text segments relevant to target attributes. Second, DocDB employs adaptive execution, generating document-specific plans to minimize LLM extraction frequency based on varying per-document attribute extraction costs. With a real-life scenario, we demonstrate that DocDB allows users to analyze unstructured documents accurately and affordably using SQL-like queries. The corresponding video is available at https://youtu.be/8yDIKOBHIOg. Zequn Li 0007, Yuanhao Zhong, Chengliang Chai, Zhaoze Sun, Ye Yuan 0001, Guoren Wang, Lei Cao 0004 |
Proc. VLDB Endow. | 1 |