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Jiale Lao, Yibo Wang, Yufei Li, Jianping Wang, Yunjia Zhang, Zhiyuan Cheng, Wanghu Chen, Mingjie Tang and 1 more

GPTuner introduces a system that employs large language models (LLMs) to extract and integrate human-curated domain knowledge into a Coarse-to-Fine Bayesian Optimization framework for database configuration tuning. The system achieves up to 30% performance improvement while requiring 16 times less tuning time compared to existing automatic tuners.

Key insights

  • Integrating human-curated domain knowledge, extracted and refined by LLMs, can drastically reduce the search space and accelerate the convergence of automated database tuning.
  • Large Language Models can serve as effective "manual readers" and "expert simulators," not just for NLP tasks but for guiding complex system optimization.
  • A multi-stage knowledge handling pipeline with robust error correction is crucial for reliably transforming noisy natural language into structured, actionable tuning hints.

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