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Multiple classifier system (MCS) has become a successful alternative for improving classification performance. However, studies have shown inconsistent results for different MCSs, and it is often difficult to predict which MCS algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Zhen Gao , Maryam Zand , Jianhua Ruan

Database Management Systems (DBMSs) process a given query by creating a query plan, which is subsequently executed, to compute the query's result. Deriving an efficient query plan is challenging, and both academia and industry have invested…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Jinsheng Ba , Manuel Rigger

Cardinality Estimation is to estimate the size of the output of a query without computing it, by using only statistics on the input relations. Existing estimators try to return an unbiased estimate of the cardinality: this is notoriously…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Mahmoud Abo Khamis , Kyle Deeds , Dan Olteanu , Dan Suciu

Query optimizers rely on accurate cardinality estimates to produce good execution plans. Despite decades of research, existing cardinality estimators are inaccurate for complex queries, due to making lossy modeling assumptions and not…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Zongheng Yang , Amog Kamsetty , Sifei Luan , Eric Liang , Yan Duan , Xi Chen , Ion Stoica

In recent years, \emph{learned cardinality estimation} has emerged as an alternative to traditional query optimization methods: by training machine learning models over observed query performance, learned cardinality estimation techniques…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Peizhi Wu , Ryan Marcus , Zachary G. Ives

Cardinality estimation is a fundamental problem in database systems. To capture the rich joint data distributions of a relational table, most of the existing work either uses data as unsupervised information or uses query workload as…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Peizhi Wu , Gao Cong

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

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

Loss functions play a crucial role in deep metric learning thus a variety of them have been proposed. Some supervise the learning process by pairwise or tripletwise similarity constraints while others take advantage of structured similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Xinshao Wang , Elyor Kodirov , Yang Hua , Neil Robertson

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 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 fundamental task in database systems and plays a critical role in query optimization. Despite significant advances in learning-based cardinality estimation methods, most existing approaches remain difficult to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Xianghong Xu , Rong Kang , Xiao He , Lei Zhang , Jianjun Chen , Tieying Zhang

Imbalance in classification tasks is commonly quantified by the cardinalities of examples across classes. This, however, disregards the presence of redundant examples and inherent differences in the learning difficulties of classes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Çağrı Eser , Zeynep Sonat Baltacı , Emre Akbaş , Sinan Kalkan

Cardinality estimation (CardEst) is an essential component in query optimizers and a fundamental problem in DBMS. A desired CardEst method should attain good algorithm performance, be stable to varied data settings, and be friendly to…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Ziniu Wu , Amir Shaikhha , Rong Zhu , Kai Zeng , Yuxing Han , Jingren Zhou

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

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

Recent work has reemphasized the importance of cardinality estimates for query optimization. While new techniques have continuously improved in accuracy over time, they still generally allow for under-estimates which often lead optimizers…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Kyle Deeds , Dan Suciu , Magda Balazinska

Cardinality estimation is a key bottleneck for cost-based query optimization, yet deployable improvements remain difficult: classical estimators miss correlations, while learned estimators often require workload-specific training pipelines…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Qizhi Wang

Comparative analysis of event sequence data is essential in many application domains, such as website design and medical care. However, analysts often face two challenges: they may not always know which sets of event sequences in the data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Siwei Fu , Jian Zhao , Linping Yuan , Zhicheng Liu , Kwan-Liu Ma , Huamin Qu

Research on learned cardinality estimation has made significant progress in recent years. However, existing methods still face distinct challenges that hinder their practical deployment in production environments. We define these challenges…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Kaixin Zhang , Hongzhi Wang , Ziqi Li , Yabin Lu , Yingze Li , Yu Yan , Yiming Guan