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ScaleDoc: Scaling LLM-based Predicates over Large Document Collections

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Predicates are foundational components in data analysis systems. However, modern workloads increasingly involve unstructured documents, which demands semantic understanding, beyond traditional value-based predicates. Given enormous documents and ad-hoc queries, while Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate powerful zero-shot capabilities, their high inference cost leads to unacceptable overhead. Therefore, we introduce \textsc{ScaleDoc}, a novel system that addresses this by decoupling predicate execution into an offline representation phase and an optimized online filtering phase. In the offline phase, \textsc{ScaleDoc} leverages a LLM to generate semantic representations for each document. Online, for each query, it trains a lightweight proxy model on these representations to filter the majority of documents, forwarding only the ambiguous cases to the LLM for final decision. Furthermore, \textsc{ScaleDoc} proposes two core innovations to achieve significant efficiency: (1) a contrastive-learning-based framework that trains the proxy model to generate reliable predicating decision scores; (2) an adaptive cascade mechanism that determines the effective filtering policy while meeting specific accuracy targets. Our evaluations across three datasets demonstrate that \textsc{ScaleDoc} achieves over a 2$\times$ end-to-end speedup and reduces expensive LLM invocations by up to 85\%, making large-scale semantic analysis practical and efficient.

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PLOP: Cost-Based Placement of Semantic Operators in Hybrid Query Plans

cs.DB · 2026-04-10 · conditional · novelty 7.0

PLOP is a cost-based optimizer that finds optimal placements for semantic LLM operators in hybrid query plans via dynamic programming, delivering up to 1.5x speedup and 4.29x cost reduction on 44 benchmark queries while preserving accuracy.

Larch: Learned Query Optimization for Semantic Predicates

cs.DB · 2026-06-06 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Larch uses a GNN-MDP formulation and a selectivity predictor plus dynamic programming to reorder semantic filter evaluation, cutting token usage 3x-19x versus prior systems on real and synthetic workloads.

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