Publications — DIAL, ETH Zurich

arXiv

VADER: Filtered Vector Search with Declarative Recall

Manos Chatzakis, Duo Lu, Helena Caminal, Yannis Chronis, Fatma Özcan, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Timofey Asyrkin, Sebastian Infante Murguia, Itai Rosenblatt, Themis Palpanas

arXiv Scholar

BibTeX

@article
  {chatzakis2026vader,
  title={VADER: Filtered Vector Search with Declarative Recall},
  author={Chatzakis, Manos and Lu, Duo and Caminal, Helena and Chronis, Yannis and {\"O}zcan, Fatma and Papakonstantinou, Yannis and Asyrkin, Timofey and Murguia, Sebastian Infante and Rosenblatt, Itai and Palpanas, Themis},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.38053},
  year={2026}
}

arXiv

Over the Memory Wall, Into the Instruction Wall: The New Bottleneck in GPU Data Processing

Sven Hepkema, Bowen Wu, Christos Kozyrakis, Yannis Chronis, Gustavo Alonso

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BibTeX

@article{hepkema2026overmemory,
  title   = {Over the Memory Wall, Into the Instruction Wall: The New Bottleneck in GPU Data Processing},
  author  = {Sven Hepkema and Bowen Wu and Christos Kozyrakis and Yannis Chronis and Gustavo Alonso},
  journal = {arXiv},
  year    = {2026}
}

SIGMOD 2026

An in-depth study of filter-agnostic vector search on a PostgreSQL database system

Duo Lu, Helena Caminal, Manos Chatzakis, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Yannis Chronis, Vaibhav Jain, Fatma Ozcan

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BibTeX

@inproceedings{lu2026filteragnostic,
  title     = {An in-depth study of filter-agnostic vector search on a PostgreSQL database system},
  author    = {Duo Lu and Helena Caminal and Manos Chatzakis and Yannis Papakonstantinou and Yannis Chronis and Vaibhav Jain and Fatma Ozcan},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGMOD},
  year      = {2026}
}

arXiv

To GPU or Not to GPU: Vector Search in Relational Engines

Vasilis Mageirakos, Joel André, Marko Kabic, Bowen Wu, Yannis Chronis, Gustavo Alonso

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BibTeX

@article{mageirakos2026gpuor,
  title   = {To {GPU} or Not to {GPU:} Vector Search in Relational Engines},
  author  = {Vasilis Mageirakos and Joel Andr{\'{e}} and Marko Kabic and Bowen Wu and Yannis Chronis and Gustavo Alonso},
  journal = {CoRR},
  year    = {2026}
}

VLDB 2025
tutorial

Filtered vector search: state of the art and research challenges

Yannis Chronis, Helena Caminal, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Fatma Özcan, Anastasia Ailamaki

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BibTeX

@inproceedings{chronis2025fvstutorial,
  title     = {Filtered vector search: state of the art and research challenges},
  author    = {Yannis Chronis and Helena Caminal and Yannis Papakonstantinou and Fatma {\"O}zcan and Anastasia Ailamaki},
  booktitle = {VLDB},
  year      = {2025}
}

IEEE Data Eng. Bull.

LLMs and Databases: A Synergistic Approach to Data Utilization

Fatma Ozcan, Yeounoh Chung, Yannis Chronis, Yu Gan, Yawen Wang, Carsten Binnig, Johannes Wehrstein, Gaurav Tarlok Kakkar, Sami Abu-el-haija

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BibTeX

@article{ozcan2025llmsdatabases,
  title   = {LLMs and Databases: {A} Synergistic Approach to Data Utilization},
  author  = {Fatma Ozcan and Yeounoh Chung and Yannis Chronis and Yu Gan and Yawen Wang and Carsten Binnig and Johannes Wehrstein and Gaurav Tarlok Kakkar and Sami Abu{-}el{-}haija},
  journal = {{IEEE} Data Eng. Bull.},
  year    = {2025},
  url     = {http://sites.computer.org/debull/A25mar/p32.pdf}
}

CIDR 2025

Databases in the era of memory-centric computing

Yannis Chronis, Anastasia Ailamaki, Lawrence Benson, Helena Caminal, Jana Giceva, Dave Patterson, Eric Sedlar, Lisa Wu Wills

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BibTeX

@inproceedings{chronis2025memorycentric,
  title     = {Databases in the era of memory-centric computing},
  author    = {Yannis Chronis and Anastasia Ailamaki and Lawrence Benson and Helena Caminal and Jana Giceva and Dave Patterson and Eric Sedlar and Lisa Wu Wills},
  booktitle = {CIDR},
  year      = {2025}
}