Centiman: elastic, high performance optimistic concurrency control by watermarking. - Bailu Ding; Lucja Kot; Alan J. Demers; Johannes Gehrke (SoCC, 2015)

The Homeostasis Protocol: Avoiding Transaction Coordination Through Program Analysis. - Sudip Roy 002; Lucja Kot; Gabriel Bender; Bailu Ding; Hossein Hojjat; Christoph Koch 001; Nate Foster; Johannes Gehrke (SIGMOD Conference, 2015)

Optimizing Optimistic Concurrency Control for Tree-Structured, Log-Structured Databases. - Philip A. Bernstein; Sudipto Das; Bailu Ding; Markus Pilman (SIGMOD Conference, 2015)

Plan Stitch: Harnessing the Best of Many Plans. - Bailu Ding; Sudipto Das; Wentao Wu 001; Surajit Chaudhuri; Vivek R. Narasayya (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2018)

Improving Optimistic Concurrency Control Through Transaction Batching and Operation Reordering. - Bailu Ding; Lucja Kot; Johannes Gehrke (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2018)

Fast Approximation of Empirical Entropy via Subsampling. - Chi Wang 001; Bailu Ding (KDD, 2019)

AI Meets AI: Leveraging Query Executions to Improve Index Recommendations. - Bailu Ding; Sudipto Das; Ryan Marcus; Wentao Wu 001; Surajit Chaudhuri; Vivek R. Narasayya (SIGMOD Conference, 2019)

Bitvector-aware Query Optimization for Decision Support Queries. - Bailu Ding; Surajit Chaudhuri; Vivek R. Narasayya (SIGMOD Conference, 2020)

Active Learning for ML Enhanced Database Systems. - Lin Ma 006; Bailu Ding; Sudipto Das; Adith Swaminathan (SIGMOD Conference, 2020)

Bitvector-aware Query Optimization for Decision Support Queries (extended version). - Bailu Ding; Surajit Chaudhuri; Vivek R. Narasayya (CoRR, 2020)

DSB: A Decision Support Benchmark for Workload-Driven and Traditional Database Systems. - Bailu Ding; Surajit Chaudhuri; Johannes Gehrke; Vivek R. Narasayya (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2021)

Efficient Retrieval with Learned Similarities. - Bailu Ding; Jiaqi Zhai (CoRR, 2024)

RetrievalAttention: Accelerating Long-Context LLM Inference via Vector Retrieval. - Di Liu; Meng Chen; Baotong Lu; Huiqiang Jiang; Zhenhua Han; Qianxi Zhang; Qi Chen 009; Chengruidong Zhang; Bailu Ding; Kai Zhang; Chen Chen 067; Fan Yang 024; et al. (CoRR, 2024)

Extensible Query Optimizers in Practice. - Bailu Ding; Vivek R. Narasayya; Surajit Chaudhuri (Found. Trends Databases, 2024)

Retrieval with Learned Similarities. - Bailu Ding; Jiaqi Zhai (WWW, 2025)

MINT: Multi-Vector Search Index Tuning. - Jiongli Zhu; Yue Wang 070; Bailu Ding; Philip A. Bernstein; Vivek R. Narasayya; Surajit Chaudhuri (CoRR, 2025)

RetroInfer: A Vector-Storage Approach for Scalable Long-Context LLM Inference. - Yaoqi Chen; Jinkai Zhang; Baotong Lu; Qianxi Zhang; Chengruidong Zhang; Jingjia Luo; Di Liu; Huiqiang Jiang; Qi Chen; Jing Liu; Bailu Ding; Xiao Yan; et al. (CoRR, 2025)