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Hybrid data combining both tabular and textual content (e.g., financial reports) are quite pervasive in the real world. However, Question Answering (QA) over such hybrid data is largely neglected in existing research. In this work, we…

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Uniform sampling and approximate counting are fundamental primitives for modern database applications, ranging from query optimization to approximate query processing. While recent breakthroughs have established optimal sampling and…

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Operational consistent query answering (CQA) is a recent framework for CQA based on revised definitions of repairs, which are built by applying a sequence of operations (e.g., fact deletions) starting from an inconsistent database until we…

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We study online statistical inference for the solutions of stochastic optimization problems with equality and inequality constraints. Such problems are prevalent in statistics and machine learning, encompassing constrained $M$-estimation,…

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Operational consistent query answering (CQA) is a recent framework for CQA based on revised definitions of repairs, which are built by applying a sequence of operations (e.g., fact deletions) starting from an inconsistent database until we…

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We present a modular error mitigation protocol for running $\mathsf{BQP}$ computations on a quantum computer with time-dependent noise. Utilising existing tools from quantum verification and measurement-based quantum computation, our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Joseph Harris , Elham Kashefi

Nowadays, sampling-based Approximate Query Processing (AQP) is widely regarded as a promising way to achieve interactivity in big data analytics. To build such an AQP system, finding the minimal sample size for a query regarding given error…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Xuebin Su , Hongzhi Wang , Jianzhong Li , Hong Gao

The probabilistic threshold query is one of the most common queries in uncertain databases, where a result satisfying the query must be also with probability meeting the threshold requirement. In this paper, we investigate probabilistic…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Jianxin Li , Chengfei Liu , Rui Zhou , Jeffrey Xu Yu

KBQA is a task that requires to answer questions by using semantic structured information in knowledge base. Previous work in this area has been restricted due to the lack of large semantic parsing dataset and the exponential growth of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Meihao Fan , Lei Zhang , Siyao Xiao , Yuru Liang

Consistent query answering over a database that violates primary key constraints is a classical hard problem in database research that has been traditionally dealt with logic programming. However, the applicability of existing logic-based…

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A data integration system provides transparent access to different data sources by suitably combining their data, and providing the user with a unified view of them, called global schema. However, source data are generally not under the…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-10-10 Marco Manna , Francesco Ricca , Giorgio Terracina

Table question answering (TQA) focuses on answering questions based on tabular data. Developing TQA systems targets effective interaction with tabular data for tasks such as cell retrieval and data analysis. While recent work has leveraged…

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We assess the prospects for algorithms within the general framework of quantum annealing (QA) to achieve a quantum speedup relative to classical state of the art methods in combinatorial optimization and related sampling tasks. We argue for…

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Path queries are crucial for property graphs, and there is growing interest in queries that combine regular expressions over labels with constraints on property values of vertices and edges. Efficient evaluation of such general path queries…

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Due to the sparse connectivity of superconducting quantum computers, qubit communication via SWAP gates accounts for the vast majority of overhead in quantum programs. We introduce a method for improving the speed and reliability of SWAPs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Pranav Gokhale , Teague Tomesh , Martin Suchara , Frederic T. Chong

Users across enterprises increasingly rely on AI agents to query their data through natural language. However, building reliable data agents remains difficult because real-world data is often fragmented across multiple heterogeneous…

The performance of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices is strongly limited by sparse qubit connectivity. When interactions required by QAOA Hamiltonians are not aligned to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Thiago Assis , Pedro Baptista , Laila Lopes , Diego Ferreira , Gabriel Coutinho

Evaluating query predicates on data samples is the only way to estimate their selectivity in certain scenarios. Finding a guaranteed optimal query plan is not a reasonable optimization goal in those cases as it might require an infinite…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Immanuel Trummer , Christoph Koch

Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) is a rich mathematical framework that embraces a large class of complex sequential decision-making problems under uncertainty with limited observations. However, the complexity of…

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Quantum programs must be reliable to ensure trustworthy results, yet debugging them is notoriously challenging due to quantum-specific faults like gate misimplementations and hardware noise, as well as their inherently probabilistic nature.…

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