Learning to Sample: Counting with Complex Queries

Summary: Two-phase learning-to-sample: sample to train a classifier, then guide stratified counting for complex queries. Theory derives optimal stratification; empirically compares against quantification and weighted/stratified sampling across real and synthetic data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12243
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 4.7890519e-05
Overall Rank: 7,251 | 49.56%
DOI: 10.14778/3368289.3368302

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4,712	Accelerating Approximate Aggregation Queries with Expensive Predicates	2021	VLDB	5.9787986e-05
6,565	Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality	2022	VLDB	5.0081626e-05
6,740	Combining Aggregation and Sampling (Nearly) Optimally for Approximate Query Processing	2021	SIGMOD	4.944395e-05
8,384	Consistent and Flexible Selectivity Estimation for High-Dimensional Data	2021	SIGMOD	4.5304673e-05
9,485	Spatial Query Optimization With Learning	2024	VLDB	4.3341665e-05
10,481	FAAQP: Fast and Accurate Approximate Query Processing based on Bitmap-augmented Sum-Product Network	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

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14	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.0010801504
18	On Random Sampling over Joins	1999	SIGMOD	0.00092385438
46	Simple Random Sampling from Relational Databases	1986	VLDB	0.00070894702
204	Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning	2019	CIDR	0.00034784455
217	Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation	1999	SIGMOD	0.00033536712
329	Accelerating Machine Learning Inference with Probabilistic Predicates	2018	SIGMOD	0.00027249545
367	Sequential Sampling Procedures For Query Size Estimation	1992	SIGMOD	0.00025509745
801	SageDB: A Learned Database System	2019	CIDR	0.00016505496
943	Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks	2016	SIGMOD	0.00015145883
1,204	VerdictDB: Universalizing Approximate Query Processing	2018	SIGMOD	0.00013319541
1,260	Dynamic Sample Selection for Approximate Query Processing	2003	SIGMOD	0.00012993347
1,369	Random Sampling over Joins Revisited	2018	SIGMOD	0.00012339777
2,184	A Sample-and-Clean Framework for Fast and Accurate Query Processing on Dirty Data	2014	SIGMOD	9.3429789e-05
4,014	Exploiting Correlations for Expensive Predicate Evaluation	2015	SIGMOD	6.5273084e-05

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