Abstract:SQL query rewriting is a well-established technique for improving database performance without schema or index changes, yet finding effective rewrites for modern analytical workloads remains difficult: rule-based methods are limited to predefined transformations, while LLM-based approaches often produce rewrites that are semantically valid but compile to equivalent physical plans or degrade runtime performance. We present SPA, a SQL-Plan-Aware reinforcement learning framework that trains LLMs to rewrite queries using physical execution feedback. SPA formulates rewriting as a policy optimization problem and extends GRPO with rewards spanning semantic equivalence, textual rewrite distance, physical-plan divergence, and runtime speedup. To handle reward sparsity across query difficulty, SPA introduces Probability-Gated Adaptive Reward Shaping, a query-level curriculum that unlocks higher-level rewards only once a rollout group achieves sufficient mastery of lower-level objectives, and further improves sample efficiency through on-policy self-improvement by recycling slowdown rewrites from the current policy as targeted training signals. On both IID and OOD workloads, SPA outperforms rule-based and strong LLM baselines in end-to-end runtime, substantially reduces harmful slowdown rewrites, and yields strong tail-latency gains.
From: Xinyi Huang [view email]
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