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Cardinality estimation has long been grounded in statistical tools for density estimation. To capture the rich multivariate distributions of relational tables, we propose the use of a new type of high-capacity statistical model: deep…

Many techniques have been developed for the cardinality estimation problem in data management systems. In this document, we introduce a framework for cardinality estimation of query patterns over property graph databases, which makes it…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Wilco van Leeuwen , George Fletcher , Nikolay Yakovets

Cardinality estimation and conjunctive query evaluation are two of the most fundamental problems in database query processing. Recent work proposed, studied, and implemented a robust and practical information-theoretic cardinality…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Sungjin Im , Benjamin Moseley , Hung Q. Ngo , Kirk Pruhs

Cardinality estimation is the problem of estimating the size of the output of a query, without actually evaluating the query. The cardinality estimator is a critical piece of a query optimizer, and is often the main culprit when the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Haozhe Zhang , Christoph Mayer , Mahmoud Abo Khamis , Dan Olteanu , Dan Suciu

Due to the outstanding capability of capturing underlying data distributions, deep learning techniques have been recently utilized for a series of traditional database problems. In this paper, we investigate the possibilities of utilizing…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yaoshu Wang , Chuan Xiao , Jianbin Qin , Xin Cao , Yifang Sun , Wei Wang , Makoto Onizuka

Cardinality estimation is a cornerstone of cost-based optimizers (CBOs), yet real-world workloads often violate the assumptions behind static statistics, degrading decision stability and increasing plan flip rates. We empirically…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ilsun Chang

We study two classes of summary-based cardinality estimators that use statistics about input relations and small-size joins in the context of graph database management systems: (i) optimistic estimators that make uniformity and conditional…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Jeremy Chen , Yuqing Huang , Mushi Wang , Semih Salihoglu , Ken Salem

Modern data-driven applications require that databases support fast cross-model analytical queries. Achieving fast analytical queries in a database system is challenging since they are usually scan-intensive (i.e., they need to intensively…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Jianfeng Huang , Dongjing Miao , Xin Liu

The cardinality estimation is a key aspect of query optimization research, and its performance has significantly improved with the integration of machine learning. To overcome the "cold start" problem or the lack of model transferability in…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Boyang Fang

Cost-based query optimizers remain one of the most important components of database management systems for analytic workloads. Though modern optimizers select plans close to optimal performance in the common case, a small number of queries…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Matthew Perron , Zeyuan Shang , Tim Kraska , Michael Stonebraker

In query optimisation accurate cardinality estimation is essential for finding optimal query plans. It is especially challenging for RDF due to the lack of explicit schema and the excessive occurrence of joins in RDF queries. Existing…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Xin Wang , Eugene Siow , Aastha Madaan , Thanassis Tiropanis

Machine learning models have demonstrated substantial performance enhancements over non-learned alternatives in various fundamental data management operations, including indexing (locating items in an array), cardinality estimation…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Sepanta Zeighami , Cyrus Shahabi

Cardinality estimation algorithms receive a stream of elements whose order might be arbitrary, with possible repetitions, and return the number of distinct elements. Such algorithms usually seek to minimize the required storage and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Reuven Cohen , Liran Katzir , Aviv Yehezkel

In recent years, machine learning-based cardinality estimation methods are replacing traditional methods. This change is expected to contribute to one of the most important applications of cardinality estimation, the query optimizer, to…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Ryuichi Ito , Yuya Sasaki , Chuan Xiao , Makoto Onizuka

Recent advances in quantum computing have led to progress in exploring quantum applications across diverse fields, including databases and data management. This work presents a quantum machine learning model that tackles the challenge of…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Valter Uotila

As machine learning models grow increasingly competent, their predictions can supplement scarce or expensive data in various important domains. In support of this paradigm, algorithms have emerged to combine a small amount of high-fidelity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhun Deng , Thomas P Zollo , Benjamin Eyre , Amogh Inamdar , David Madras , Richard Zemel

Many benchmarks for automated causal inference evaluate a system's performance based on a single numerical output, such as an Average Treatment Effect (ATE). This approach conflates two distinct steps in causal analysis: identification -…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ayush Sawarni , Jiyuan Tan , Vasilis Syrgkanis

Model-Based Diagnosis deals with the identification of the real cause of a system's malfunction based on a formal system model and observations of the system behavior. When a malfunction is detected, there is usually not enough information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Patrick Rodler , Wolfgang Schmid , Konstantin Schekotihin

SQL queries, with the AND, OR, and NOT operators, constitute a broad class of highly used queries. Thus, their cardinality estimation is important for query optimization. In addition, a query planner requires the set-theoretic cardinality…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Rojeh Hayek , Oded Shmueli

Estimating cardinality, i.e., the number of distinct elements, of a data stream is a fundamental problem in areas like databases, computer networks, and information retrieval. This study delves into a broader scenario where each element…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yiyan Qi , Rundong Li , Pinghui Wang , Yufang Sun , Rui Xing