用声明式约束保障AI处理数据的正确性,提升可信度。
Semantic Integrity Constraints: Declarative Guardrails for AI-Augmented Data Processing Systems
- 定义语义完整性约束,规范LLM输出的正确性条件
- 支持校验与预防双重策略,确保查询结果可靠
- 适合需要高可信度的数据系统,如金融医疗领域
AI增强型数据处理系统将大语言模型(LLMs)融入查询流程,实现对结构化与非结构化数据的强大语义操作。然而,LLM可能产生错误,严重威胁系统可靠性,限制其在关键领域的应用。为此,本文提出语义完整性约束(SICs)——一种用于规范和强制执行语义查询中LLM输出正确性的声明式抽象。SICs将传统数据库完整性约束拓展至语义场景,支持接地性、合理性、排除性等常见约束类型,并具备反应式与主动式两种执行策略。我们论证了SICs是构建可靠且可审计的AI增强数据系统的基石。具体地,提出了将SICs集成到查询规划与运行时执行中的系统设计,并讨论了在实际系统中的实现路径。为指导与评估该框架,我们确立了表达能力、运行语义、集成性、性能及企业级可扩展性等设计目标,分析了本方案如何满足这些要求,并指出尚未解决的研究挑战。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
AI-augmented data processing systems (DPSs) integrate large language models (LLMs) into query pipelines, allowing powerful semantic operations on structured and unstructured data. However, the reliability (a.k.a. trust) of these systems is fundamentally challenged by the potential for LLMs to produce errors, limiting their adoption in critical domains. To help address this reliability bottleneck, we introduce semantic integrity constraints (SICs) -- a declarative abstraction for specifying and enforcing correctness conditions over LLM outputs in semantic queries. SICs generalize traditional database integrity constraints to semantic settings, supporting common types of constraints, such as grounding, soundness, and exclusion, with both reactive and proactive enforcement strategies. We argue that SICs provide a foundation for building reliable and auditable AI-augmented data systems. Specifically, we present a system design for integrating SICs into query planning and runtime execution and discuss its realization in AI-augmented DPSs. To guide and evaluate our vision, we outline several design goals -- covering criteria around expressiveness, runtime semantics, integration, performance, and enterprise-scale applicability -- and discuss how our framework addresses each, along with open research challenges.
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