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CAESURA: Language Models as Multi-Modal Query Planners

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arxiv 2308.03424 v1 pith:LD4AL6GL submitted 2023-08-07 cs.DB

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keywords querydatalanguageplannersmodelsplanningplansmodalities
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Traditional query planners translate SQL queries into query plans to be executed over relational data. However, it is impossible to query other data modalities, such as images, text, or video stored in modern data systems such as data lakes using these query planners. In this paper, we propose Language-Model-Driven Query Planning, a new paradigm of query planning that uses Language Models to translate natural language queries into executable query plans. Different from relational query planners, the resulting query plans can contain complex operators that are able to process arbitrary modalities. As part of this paper, we present a first GPT-4 based prototype called CEASURA and show the general feasibility of this idea on two datasets. Finally, we discuss several ideas to improve the query planning capabilities of today's Language Models.

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