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Relational Programming

Talkat 9th Annual Simons Institute Industry Day · on Thursday, 2023-11-02· [databases]
name:Remy Wang
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One-line relational joins and semiring rewrites turn into concrete systems: a datalog engine (birelational AI) automatically parallelizes and distributes joins, handles fault tolerance, and maps semiring +/× to matrix multiply over sparse tensors. Replacing semiring yields transitive closure or shortest paths and the optimizer rewrites code to recover Bellman-Ford for sparse shortest paths. Algebraic rewrite rules exploit associativity and commutativity and sparsity to produce a ten-line specification that rewrites into Brandes’s algorithm and runs thousands of times faster than naive.

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