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Cardinality estimation is a fundamental task in database query processing and optimization. As shown in recent papers, machine learning (ML)-based approaches can deliver more accurate cardinality estimations than traditional approaches.…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Lucas Woltmann , Claudio Hartmann , Dirk Habich , Wolfgang Lehner

Accurate cardinality estimation of substring queries, which are commonly expressed using the SQL LIKE predicate, is crucial for query optimization in database systems. While both rule-based methods and machine learning-based methods have…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yirui Zhan , Wen Nie , Jun Gao

Cardinality estimation is one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in query optimization. Neither classical nor learning-based methods yield satisfactory performance when estimating the cardinality of the join queries. They…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Ziniu Wu , Parimarjan Negi , Mohammad Alizadeh , Tim Kraska , Samuel Madden

Cardinality estimation remains a fundamental challenge in query optimization, often resulting in sub-optimal execution plans and degraded performance. While errors in cardinality estimation are inevitable, existing methods for identifying…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Asoke Datta , Yesdaulet Izenov , Brian Tsan , Abylay Amanbayev , Florin Rusu

We propose an advancement in cardinality estimation by augmenting autoregressive models with a traditional grid structure. The novel hybrid estimator addresses the limitations of autoregressive models by creating a smaller representation of…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Damjan Gjurovski , Angjela Davitkova , Sebastian Michel

Previous approaches to learned cardinality estimation have focused on improving average estimation error, but not all estimates matter equally. Since learned models inevitably make mistakes, the goal should be to improve the estimates that…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Parimarjan Negi , Ryan Marcus , Andreas Kipf , Hongzi Mao , Nesime Tatbul , Tim Kraska , Mohammad Alizadeh

Despite of decades of work, query optimizers still make mistakes on "difficult" queries because of bad cardinality estimates, often due to the interaction of multiple predicates and correlations in the data. In this paper, we propose a…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Wentao Wu , Jeffrey F. Naughton , Harneet Singh

Cardinality estimation is a key component of database query optimization. Recent studies have demonstrated that learned cardinality estimation techniques can surpass traditional methods in accuracy. However, a significant barrier to their…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Lyu Yi , Weiqi Feng , Yuanbiao Wang , Yuhong Kan

Being cautious is crucial for enhancing the trustworthiness of machine learning systems integrated into decision-making pipelines. Although calibrated probabilities help in optimal decision-making, perfect calibration remains unattainable,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Mari-Liis Allikivi , Joonas Järve , Meelis Kull

Cardinality estimation is a fundamental component in database systems, crucial for generating efficient execution plans. Despite advancements in learning-based cardinality estimation, existing methods may struggle to simultaneously optimize…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jiawei Liu , Ju Fan , Tongyu Liu , Kai Zeng , Jiannan Wang , Quehuan Liu , Tao Ye , Nan Tang

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

Cardinality estimation (CardEst) is a critical aspect of query optimization. Traditionally, it leverages statistics built directly over the data. However, organizational policies (e.g., regulatory compliance) may restrict global data…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Peizhi Wu , Rong Kang , Tieying Zhang , Jianjun Chen , Ryan Marcus , Zachary G. Ives

Cardinality estimation is an important part of query optimization in DBMS. We develop a Quantum Cardinality Estimation (QCardEst) approach using Quantum Machine Learning with a Hybrid Quantum-Classical Network. We define a compact encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Tobias Winker , Jinghua Groppe , Sven Groppe

Cost and cardinality estimation is vital to query optimizer, which can guide the plan selection. However traditional empirical cost and cardinality estimation techniques cannot provide high-quality estimation, because they cannot capture…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Ji Sun , Guoliang Li

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…

Confidence bounds are an essential tool for rigorously quantifying the uncertainty of predictions. They are a core component in many sequential learning and decision-making algorithms, with tighter confidence bounds giving rise to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-12 Hamish Flynn , David Reeb

The containment rate of query Q1 in query Q2 over database D is the percentage of Q1's result tuples over D that are also in Q2's result over D. We directly estimate containment rates between pairs of queries over a specific database. For…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Rojeh Hayek , Oded Shmueli

Transfer learning seeks to accelerate sequential decision-making by leveraging offline data from related agents. However, data from heterogeneous sources that differ in observed features, distributions, or unobserved confounders often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Xueping Gong , Wei You , Jiheng Zhang

Finding feasible points for which the proof succeeds is a critical issue in safe Branch and Bound algorithms which handle continuous problems. In this paper, we introduce a new strategy to compute very accurate approximations of feasible…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2008-07-16 Alexandre Goldsztejn , Yahia Lebbah , Claude Michel , Michel Rueher

Query optimizers rely on accurate cardinality estimation (CardEst) to produce good execution plans. The core problem of CardEst is how to model the rich joint distribution of attributes in an accurate and compact manner. Despite decades of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Rong Zhu , Ziniu Wu , Yuxing Han , Kai Zeng , Andreas Pfadler , Zhengping Qian , Jingren Zhou , Bin Cui