Matthias Boehm
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Prof at TU Berlin and BIFOLD; research on ML systems and data management. mboehm7.github.io
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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data
3 months ago
Congratulations to Sebastian Baunsgaard successfully defending his PhD thesis, "Workload-aware Compressed Linear Algebra for Data-centric Machine Learning Pipelines" Sebastian is part of the DAMS group (lead:
@matthiasboehm7.bsky.social
) BIFOLD /
@tuberlin.bsky.social
#phd
#defended
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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data
5 months ago
Meet the BIFOLD researchers at
#SIGMOD2025
in Berlin! From June 22–27, we’re excited to welcome the global data community and contribute with papers, demos & workshops—plus help shape the event as part of the organizing team. See you there! 🚀
#datamanagement
News
www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...
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SIGMOD 2025 Conference Contributions
BIFOLD researchers will present multiple contributions at the SIGMOD/PODS 2025 conference, scheduled for June 22–27, 2025, in Berlin.
https://www.bifold.berlin/news-events/news/view/news-detail/sigmod-2025-conference-contributions
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Nils Feldhus @ EMNLP
7 months ago
Successfully defended my PhD yesterday! 🎓 🎉 Special thanks to my mentor Sebastian Möller and professors Sina Zarrieß
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, Christin Seifert, and
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for being part of my committee. Will continue working on XAI & NLP as a post-doc at TU Berlin & BIFOLD
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Here is an additional impression from BTW'25 in Bamberg. I'm terrible at such interviews, but not hiding anything. 😉 Thanks to the organizers for a great conference.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSx4...
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BTW 2025: Interview mit Matthias Böhm von der TU Berlin
YouTube video by Universität Bamberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSx4jj92iew&list=PLIszigRXrw5MdiaJ8CzqSnfVX4AcyW0bc&index=4
8 months ago
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Andreas Kipf
8 months ago
A huge thank you to our speakers and everyone who contributed to the great discussions at today’s workshop! A big shout-out to Manisha Luthra and
@matthiasboehm7.bsky.social
for co-organizing—always a pleasure working together! 😊
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A postcard from Lausanne - I just returned from the Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD) at EPFL. Thanks to Thaleia Dimitra Doudali and Pamela Delgado for organizing the "AI in Data and Computer Systems" session - it was a pleasure.
9 months ago
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Stefania Dumbrava
9 months ago
Together with Riccardo Tommasini, we are excited to announce Yuanyuan Tian & Juan Reutter as the keynotes for the Transforming Graph Data Workshop@EDBT/ICDT 2025! 🌟 Join us March 25 in Barcelona 🇪🇸 👉
transforming-graphs-workshop.org
👉
edbticdt2025.upc.edu?contents=reg...
cc:
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Stefan Grafberger
9 months ago
Please help spread the word by reposting! We've just created the official DEEM Workshop account:
@deem-workshop.bsky.social
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Pınar Tözün
9 months ago
📢📢VLDB26 (
@vldb.bsky.social
) will have a ShadowPC! Apply at
forms.office.com/e/XYihKj4UKq
by March 1! Great opportunity for folk who are new to the data management community & want to gain paper reviewing experience. More info at application form. Chairs:
@zistvan.bsky.social
, Tianzheng Wang, & I.
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Microsoft Forms
https://forms.office.com/e/XYihKj4UKq
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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data
9 months ago
🎥 Review key insights from The Age of AI: Panel Discussion with Sam Altman
#OpenAI
, Nicole Büttner
#MerantixMomentum
, Fatma Deniz
@tuberlin.bsky.social
, and Volker Markl
@bifold.berlin
discussed AI's opportunities, challenges, and societal impact.
www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...
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Thanks to Sam, Nicole, Volker, and Fatma for the great panel discussion at TU Berlin &
@bifold.berlin
today.
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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data
10 months ago
BIFOLD RSG Lead Matthias Boehm will be a speaker at the "AI in Data and Computer Systems" track of the AMLD - Applied Machine Learning Days at EPFL.
@appliedmldays.bsky.social
@tuberlin.bsky.social
@matthiasboehm7.bsky.social
#AMLDEPFL2025
#DataSystems
#ComputerSystems
#Innovation
t1p.de/iqhx8
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I'm very proud of my team - we just completed three great BTW'25 papers (camera-ready versions and reproducibility packages for two of them) as well as the final EU project review meeting of DAPHNE today:
btw2025.gi.de
github.com/damslab/repr...
github.com/daphne-eu/da...
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Startseite - btw 2025
https://btw2025.gi.de
10 months ago
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Our graduate school has an open call for 10 PhD positions in data management and machine learning (until Feb 03). This is a great opportunity to join one of our groups, sometimes even with co-supervision among multiple groups.
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10 months ago
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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data
10 months ago
Many thanks to our guest Gerardo Vitagliano for his great talk on “Making Data Accessible using LLMs.” 👏 Thanks for the great talk!
@csail.mit.edu
@tuberlin.bsky.social
@ziamurai.bsky.social
@mersault.bsky.social
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The
@sigmod2025.bsky.social
Programming Contest goes into another round. We (Bo Tang, Tilmann Rabl, and myself) just published the timeline and task overview:
sigmod-contest-2025.github.io/index.html
Thanks to Carlo Curino and
@microsoft.com
for the continued support.
10 months ago
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Proud advisor moment: Today, my first PhD student
@arnabphani.bsky.social
successfully defended his PhD thesis in front of a great committee of Ana Klimovic, Tilmann Rabl, me, and
@mersault.bsky.social
(w/ summa cum laude - very good with distinction). Arnab is on the job market, so don't miss out.
11 months ago
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Natacha Crooks
11 months ago
There is a special place in hell for schools that require you to rate applicants across 10 axes for recommendation letters and don't just let you upload the standard PDF.
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I'm happy to promote the K.I.E.Z. (Künstliche Intelligenz Entrepreneurship Zentrum,
linkedin.com/company/kiez...
), where I'm also part of the expert network. Startups can get support for Apr-Sep 2025. Bridge-to-Market:
lnkd.in/dSzDTY-n
Accelerator:
lnkd.in/dE_WWTct
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Byron Galbraith
11 months ago
Happy NeurIPS Poster Session is Full day to all who celebrate
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ewuuu
11 months ago
We are excited to be starting a new lab that rethinks the systems, ML, and HCI stack to support agent-based automation! Columbia's PhD deadline is 12/15 -- please share with potential applicants!
columbia-dap-lab.github.io
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We now extended the deadline of the ML4Sys/Sys4ML@BTW workshop to Dec 15
luthramanisha.github.io/ML4Sys-and-S...
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Second Workshop on ML4Sys and Sys4ML
https://luthramanisha.github.io/ML4Sys-and-Sys4ML/
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Happy to share this paper, which was in the making for a while (
@arnabphani.bsky.social
showed great perseverance and continuously improved the prototype, experiments, and paper presentation).
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12 months ago
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Frank McSherry
12 months ago
We've shipped a very neat performance improvement at Materialize, which I'll try and unpack but you can get a tl;dr by just looking at the memory decrease in the changelog announcement:
materialize.com/changelog/20...
Big memory reductions for "temporal filters". What are those? Let me explain.
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Improved performance for temporal filters
Optimization time! We've significantly reduced the cost of using temporal filters in Materialize.
https://materialize.com/changelog/2024-11-27-temporal-filters/
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12 months ago
We've been developing a serverless runtime for Transactional Cloud Apps. Here is why we adopted (streaming) stateful dataflow graphs. "Transactional Cloud Applications Go with the (Data)Flow" K. Psarakis, G. Christodoulou, M. Fragkoulis, A. Katsifodimos. CIDR'25:
kpsarakis.com/assets/pdf/s...
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Stefania Dumbrava
12 months ago
We're excited to announce that the VLDB Summer School will take place from Monday, 28th of July, to Thursday, 31st of July, 2025 at the University of Wroclaw, in Poland! 🇵🇱 More details to follow soon ☀️
www.linkedin.com/company/vldb...
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SIGMOD/PODS 2025
12 months ago
The deadline for industrial papers is on the same day. Submit your most innovative industrial data systems work there:
2025.sigmod.org/calls_indust...
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PVLDB
12 months ago
Vol:17 No:12 → MLOS in Action: Bridging the Gap Between Experimentation and Auto-Tuning in the Cloud 👥 Authors: Brian Kroth, Sergiy Matusevych, Rana Alotaibi, Yiwen Zhu, Anja Gruenheid, Yuanyuan Tian 📄 PDF: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol17/p4269-kroth.pdf
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Paolo Papotti
12 months ago
🚀 Up to 93x input compression for LLMs! By compressing the data in the KV cache, we squeeze more info in the context. Presented at
@emnlpmeeting.bsky.social
, now on MIT Press: FINCH: Prompt-guided Key-Value Cache Compression for LLMs (TACL 2024)
direct.mit.edu/tacl/article...
More details 👇
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FINCH: Prompt-guided Key-Value Cache Compression for Large Language Models
Abstract. Recent large language model applications, such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation and chatbots, have led to an increased need to process longer input contexts. However, this requirement is ha...
https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00716/125280
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Peter Boncz
12 months ago
At
cwi.nl/en/events/dijkstra-awards/cwi-lectures-dijkstra-fellowship
we awarded the Dijkstra Fellowship to Marcin Zukowski for his contributions to DB architecture in a full room & great speakers: Allison Lee, Viktor Leis,
@andypavlo.bsky.social
@hannes.muehleisen.org
@madelonhulsebos.bsky.social
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There are less than two weeks until the deadline of our ML4Sys & Sys4ML workshop @ BTW2025 in Bamberg.
luthramanisha.github.io/ML4Sys-and-S...
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Second Workshop on ML4Sys and Sys4ML
https://luthramanisha.github.io/ML4Sys-and-Sys4ML/
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SIGMOD/PODS 2025
12 months ago
📯📯📯 Round 3 accepted papers for SIGMOD 2025 are now posted on the website. Congratulations to all the authors and see you at the conference in Berlin!
2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_paper...
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Meredith Whittaker
12 months ago
Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered... 1. Small AI models often perform better in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture. Me +
@gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social
@sashamtl.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
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Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI
With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
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Andy Pavlo
12 months ago
My PVLDB paper announcement bot now supports Bluesky:
@pvldb.bsky.social
I am letting it post papers from last issue (August 2024). It will then hit the new volume when it pops later this year. You can also get RSS/Atom feeds:
db.cs.cmu.edu/files/rss/pv...
db.cs.cmu.edu/files/rss/pv...
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btw, last week I also completed my first "mental health first aid" 2-day course and hope to be able to help students when needed in the future.
12 months ago
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something to get your fired up ("inspired") for the next week:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwPS...
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Alicia Keys feat. Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind Live
YouTube video by ImTheNewSinatra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwPStbxD51E
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Emily M. Bender
12 months ago
Welcome new followers and check out the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 starter pack!
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Andrew Meredith
12 months ago
Why I love DuckDB in one anecdote: I needed to copy all tables from one database to another, and I was sure it was going to take a while to figure it out. I googled "copy from one duckdb database to another," and this was the first result:
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Sebastian
12 months ago
Pls repost: We, the DEEM Lab at TU Berlin, are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in data engineering for machine learning. Details available at:
deem.berlin#jobs-57624
This fully-funded position is part of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD).
#databs
#datasky
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Thomas Kipf
12 months ago
The world doesn’t live on a pixel grid and neither should vision models! Excited to share Moving off-the-Grid (MooG): a video model w/o grid-based representations. MooG learns detached “off-the-grid tokens” that bind to (and track) scene elements as camera & content move. 🧵
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Last Wednesday, we had a great Queens Lecture by Aldo Faisal at TU Berlin (I'm at the bottom right), followed by a lovely dinner at the residence of the British Ambassador.
12 months ago
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DuckDB
12 months ago
𝗔 𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗗𝗕 If you want to know what makes DuckDB so fast, check out the new blog post by Tim Ebergen on how the "optimizers play a silent, but vital role when using a database":
duckdb.org/2024/11/14/o...
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Optimizers: The Low-Key MVP
The query optimizer is an important part of any analytical database system as it provides considerable performance improvements compared to hand-optimized queries, even as the state of your data chang...
https://duckdb.org/2024/11/14/optimizers
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