The realization of multiqubit entangling gates is essential for efficient, scalable, and fault-tolerant quantum information processing, reducing algorithmic complexity and circuit depth. We demonstrate a native three-qubit entangling gate implemented by simultaneously driving all qubits at a common frequency, exploiting engineered interactions to realize multicontrol operations in a single coherent step. By optimizing the conditional dynamics originating from drive-induced nonlocal contamination, desired interaction channels are selectively enhanced while spurious terms are suppressed, ensuring robust performance within the computational subspace. This gate enables key applications, including deterministic GHZ-state generation, Toffoli-class logic with a shortest gate duration of 90 ns and a highest fidelity of 99.72%, and a controlled-ZZ gate tailored for fast surface-code quantum error correction. Simulations based on realistic IBM device parameters indicate that the gate maintains high fidelity and resilience under increasing excitation numbers and larger Hilbert-space dimensions. Our results establish a foundation for co-designing circuit architectures and control strategies that harness native multiqubit interactions as fundamental building blocks for next-generation superconducting quantum processors, thereby enabling improved gate performance with more flexible tuning of circuit parameters.

Large language models (LLMs) have become central to many applications, but their deployment often requires high-performance hardware, specialized libraries, and complex engineering, limiting accessibility for smaller organizations. Meanwhile, relational database systems (RDBMS) are widely used for portability, efficiency, and native support for managing large-scale data operations. This paper presents TranSQL1, a toolkit that enables transformerbased LLM inference within RDBMS. By translating neural operations into SQL queries and representing model weights as relational tables, TranSQL leverages database features like dynamic disk-to-memory data management and caching to reduce hardware and engineering demands for serving LLMs. Using the LLaMA3 8B model, we demonstrate TranSQL's ability to implement attention layers, KV-cache, and end-to-end text generation through SQL queries. TranSQL offers a cost-effective, portable, and scalable approach to making advanced AI technologies more accessible.

One of the key enablers of 6G is the Native support of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) at all the system levels, components and mechanisms, from the orchestration and management levels to the low-level optimisation of the infrastructure resources including Cloud, Edge, RAN, Core Network, as well as a transport network. However, this integration presents significant challenges, primarily the need for relevant datasets to train AI models. The availability of high-quality 6G data is still limited, and even when new models are developed, testing and validation remain complex without adequate evaluation platforms. To address these challenges, the 6G-DALI project proposes a framework that harmonizes Data Management with AI development. Its approach is defined by two “key” pillars: (i) AI experimentation as a service via MLOps and; (ii) Data and analytics collection and storage via DataOps. The 6G-DALI DataOps pillar provides the mechanisms for preparing clean and processed data that are stored within a 6G Dataspace and are made available for training and validating machine learning models as a service, a part of the MLOps Pillar. The end-to-end framework also delivers continuous monitoring, drift detection and retraining of models. 6G-DALI revolutionises next-generation 6G networks by addressing the critical challenges of data availability, artificial intelligence integration and energy efficiency.

Deploying large language models (LLMs) often requires specialized hardware and complex frameworks, creating barriers for CPU-based environments with resource constraints. These systems, common in air-gapped or edge scenarios, lack support for maintenance due to security, budget, or technical limits. To address this, we introduce TranSQL⁺, a compiler that translates LLM inference into SQL queries, enabling deployment on relational databases. By converting transformer operations into relational algebra, TranSQL⁺ generates vector-oriented SQL queries that leverage native database features (buffer management, indexing) to manage computations without hardware accelerators or deep learning frameworks. Demonstrated with the LLaMA3.1 8B model on DuckDB, results show relational databases can effectively serve LLMs, reducing deployment barriers and expanding access to advanced AI.

Quantum computing has emerged as a transformative force in the evolution of computing technology. Recent efforts have applied quantum techniques to classical database challenges, such as query optimization, data integration, index selection, and transaction management. In this paper, we shift focus to a critical yet underexplored area: data management for quantum computing. We are currently in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, where qubits, while promising, are fragile and still limited in scale. After differentiating quantum data from classical data, we outline current and future data management paradigms in the NISQ era and beyond. We address the data management challenges arising from the emerging demands of near-term quantum computing. Our goal is to chart a clear course for future quantum-oriented data management research, establishing it as a cornerstone for the advancement of quantum computing in the NISQ era.

Quantum circuit simulation is crucial for quantum computing such as validating quantum algorithms. We present Qymera, a system that repurposes relational database management systems (RDBMSs) for simulation by translating circuits into SQL queries, allowing quantum operations to run natively within an RDBMS. Qymera supports a wide range of quantum circuits, offering a graphical circuit builder and code-based interfaces to input circuits. With a benchmarking framework, Qymera facilitates comparison of RDBMS-based simulation against state-of-the-art simulation methods. Our demonstration showcases Qymera's end-to-end SQL-based execution, seamless integration with classical workflows, and its utility for development, benchmarking, and education in quantum computing and data management. A video demonstrating Qymera's key features can be found at https://youtu.be/j-fTKnVIV6c.

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) provides an opportunity to change the way queries are processed, moving beyond the constraints of conventional SQL-based database systems. However, using an LLM to answer a prediction query is still challenging, since an external ML model has to be employed and inference has to be performed in order to provide an answer. This paper introduces LLM-PQA, a novel tool that addresses prediction queries formulated in natural language. LLM-PQA is the first to combine the capabilities of LLMs and retrieval-augmented mechanism for the needs of prediction queries by integrating data lakes and model zoos. This integration provides users with access to a vast spectrum of heterogeneous data and diverse ML models, facilitating dynamic prediction query answering. In addition, LLM-PQA can dynamically train models on demand, based on specific query requirements, ensuring reliable and relevant results even when no pre-trained model in a model zoo, available for the task.

Machine learning (ML) training data is often scattered across disparate collections of datasets, called <italic>data silos</italic>. This fragmentation poses a major challenge for data-intensive ML applications: integrating and transforming data residing in different sources demand a lot of manual work and computational resources. With data privacy constraints, data often cannot leave the premises of data silos; hence model training should proceed in a decentralized manner. In this work, we present a vision of bridging traditional data integration (DI) techniques with the requirements of modern machine learning systems. We explore the possibilities of utilizing metadata obtained from data integration processes for improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and privacy of ML models. Towards this direction, we analyze ML training and inference over data silos. Bringing data integration and machine learning together, we highlight new research opportunities from the aspects of systems, representations, factorized learning, and federated learning.

Pre-trained deep learning (DL) models are increasingly accessible in public repositories, i.e., model zoos. Given a new prediction task, finding the best model to fine-tune can be computationally intensive and costly, especially when the number of pre-trained models is large. Selecting the right pre-trained models is crucial, yet complicated by the diversity of models from various model families (like ResNet, Vit, Swin) and the hidden relationships between models and datasets. Existing methods, which utilize basic information from models and datasets to compute scores indicating model performance on target datasets, overlook the intrinsic relationships, limiting their effectiveness in model selection. In this study, we introduce TransferGraph, a novel framework that reformulates model selection as a graph learning problem. TransferGraph constructs a graph using extensive metadata extracted from models and datasets, while capturing their inherent relationships. Through comprehensive experiments across 16 real datasets, both images and texts, we demonstrate TransferGraph's effectiveness in capturing essential model-dataset relationships, yielding up to a 32% improvement in correlation between predicted performance and the actual fine-tuning results compared to the state-of-the-art methods.

Quantum computing has emerged as a transformative tool for future data management. Classical problems in database domains, including query optimization, data integration, and transaction management, have recently been addressed using quantum computing techniques. This tutorial aims to establish the theoretical foundation essential for enhancing methodologies and practical implementations in this line of research. Moreover, this tutorial takes a forward-looking approach by delving into recent strides in quantum internet technologies and the nonlocality theory. We aim to shed light on the uncharted territory of future data systems tailored for the quantum internet.

Synthetic tabular data is crucial for sharing and augmenting data across silos, especially for enterprises with proprietary data. However, existing synthesizers are designed for centrally stored data. Hence, they struggle with real-world scenarios where features are distributed across multiple silos, necessitating on-premise data storage. We introduce SiloFuse, a novel generative framework for high-quality synthesis from cross-silo tabular data. To ensure privacy, SiloFuse utilizes a distributed latent tabular diffusion architecture. Through autoencoders, latent representations are learned for each client's features, masking their actual values. We employ stacked dis-tributed training to improve communication efficiency, reducing the number of rounds to a single step. Under SiloFuse, we prove the impossibility of data reconstruction for vertically partitioned synthesis and quantify privacy risks through three attacks using our benchmark framework. Experimental results on nine datasets showcase SiloFuse's competence against centralized diffusion-based synthesizers. Notably, SiloFuse achieves 43.8 and 29.8 higher percentage points over GANs in resemblance and utility. Experiments on communication show stacked training's fixed cost compared to the growing costs of end-to-end training as the number of training iterations increases. Additionally, SiloFuse proves robust to feature permutations and varying numbers of clients.

Machine learning (ML) practitioners and organizations are building model repositories of pre-trained models, referred to as model zoos. These model zoos contain metadata describing the properties of the ML models and datasets. The metadata serves crucial roles for reporting, auditing, ensuring reproducibility, and enhancing interpretability. Despite the growing adoption of descriptive formats like datasheets and model cards, the metadata available in existing model zoos remains notably limited. Moreover, existing formats have limited expressiveness, thus constraining the potential use of model repositories, extending their purpose beyond mere storage for pre-trained models. This paper proposes a unified metadata representation format for model zoos. We illustrate that comprehensive metadata enables a diverse range of applications, encompassing model search, reuse, comparison, and composition of ML models. We also detail the design and highlight the implementation of an advanced model zoo system built on top of our proposed metadata representation.

Machine learning (ML) training data is often scattered across disparate collections of datasets, called data silos. This fragmentation poses a major challenge for data-intensive ML applications: integrating and transforming data residing in different sources demand a lot of manual work and computational resources. With data privacy and security constraints, data often cannot leave the premises of data silos, hence model training should proceed in a decentralized manner. In this work, we present a vision of how to bridge the traditional data integration (DI) techniques with the requirements of modern machine learning. We explore the possibilities of utilizing metadata obtained from data integration processes for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of ML models. Towards this direction, we analyze two common use cases over data silos, feature augmentation and federated learning. Bringing data integration and machine learning together, we highlight new research opportunities from the aspects of systems, representations, factorized learning and federated learning.

The rapid growth of large-scale machine learning (ML) models has led numerous commercial companies to utilize ML models for generating predictive results to help business decision-making. As two primary components in traditional predictive pipelines, data processing, and model predictions often operate in separate execution environments, leading to redundant engineering and computations. Additionally, the diverging mathematical foundations of data processing and machine learning hinder cross-optimizations by combining these two components, thereby overlooking potential opportunities to expedite predictive pipelines. In this paper, we propose an operator fusing method based on GPU-accelerated linear algebraic evaluation of relational queries. Our method leverages linear algebra computation properties to merge operators in machine learning predictions and data processing, significantly accelerating predictive pipelines by up to 317x. We perform a complexity analysis to deliver quantitative insights into the advantages of operator fusion, considering various data and model dimensions. Furthermore, we extensively evaluate matrix multiplication query processing utilizing the widely-used Star Schema Benchmark. Through comprehensive evaluations, we demonstrate the effectiveness and potential of our approach in improving the efficiency of data processing and machine learning workloads on modern hardware.

Data lakes are becoming increasingly prevalent for Big Data management and data analytics. In contrast to traditional 'schema-on-write' approaches such as data warehouses, data lakes are repositories storing raw data in its original formats and providing a common access interface. Despite the strong interest raised from both academia and industry, there is a large body of ambiguity regarding the definition, functions and available technologies for data lakes. A complete, coherent picture of data lake challenges and solutions is still missing. This survey reviews the development, architectures, and systems of data lakes. We provide a comprehensive overview of research questions for designing and building data lakes. We classify the existing approaches and systems based on their provided functions for data lakes, which makes this survey a useful technical reference for designing, implementing and deploying data lakes. We hope that the thorough comparison of existing solutions and the discussion of open research challenges in this survey will motivate the future development of data lake research and practice.