(MSc Research Project / MSc Thesis) The goal of this project is to research how AI and large language models generate datasets. Research questions include: Where does the generated data come from? Are sources available on the internet or can they be found? What biases exist in the generated data? And how much of the data is simply wrong? Generated datasets are used in many fields in practice, …
Supervisors: Martin Hentschel
Semester: Fall 2025
Tags: training data, machine learning, LLMs

Query optimization is crucial for any data management system to achieve good performance. Recent advancements in AI have led academia and industry to investigate learning-based techniques in query optimization. In particular, many works propose replacing the cost model used during plan enumeration with a machine learning model that estimates the runtime of a plan. However, to build such a model …
Supervisors: Zoi Kaoudi
Semester: Fall 2025
Tags: machine learning, training data, query optimizer