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Fauce: Fast and Accurate Deep Ensembles with Uncertainty for Cardinality Estimation

Summary: Fauce is a join cardinality estimator learning correlations across columns and tables with deep ensembles. It yields 10x faster inference and 1.3x–6.7x lower error on complex queries, and it is the first DL-based estimator to embed uncertainty. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
12565
Venue
VLDB
Year
2021
Pagerank
8.3363963e-05
Overall Rank
2,620 | 82.03%
DOI
10.14778/3476249.3476254

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BibTeX Citation

@article{liu_vldb21,
        title = {{Fauce: Fast and Accurate Deep Ensembles with Uncertainty for Cardinality Estimation}},
        author = {Liu, Jie and Dong, Wenqian and Zhou, Qingqing and Li, Dong},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1950--1963},
        doi = {10.14778/3476249.3476254},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3476249.3476254},
        year = {2021}
}

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2,420 Lero: A Learning-to-Rank Query Optimizer 2023 VLDB 8.605257e-05
2,543 Learned Cardinality Estimation: An In-depth Study 2022 SIGMOD 8.4445934e-05
2,762 Cost-based or Learning-based? A Hybrid Query Optimizer for Query Plan Selection 2022 VLDB 8.1539867e-05
2,991 FactorJoin: A New Cardinality Estimation Framework for Join Queries 2023 SIGMOD 7.8880723e-05
3,338 Robust Query Driven Cardinality Estimation under Changing Workloads 2023 VLDB 7.5068221e-05
4,349 ALECE: An Attention-based Learned Cardinality Estimator for SPJ Queries on Dynamic Workloads 2024 VLDB 6.7504619e-05
4,368 Lightweight and Accurate Cardinality Estimation by Neural Network Gaussian Process 2022 SIGMOD 6.7393882e-05
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6,704 ASM: Harmonizing Autoregressive Model, Sampling, and Multi-dimensional Statistics Merging for Cardinality Estimation 2024 SIGMOD 5.797374e-05
6,921 Rethinking Learned Cost Models: Why Start from Scratch? 2023 SIGMOD 5.7388557e-05
8,615 A Spark Optimizer for Adaptive, Fine-Grained Parameter Tuning 2024 VLDB 5.4005602e-05
8,849 ByteCard: Enhancing ByteDance’s Data Warehouse with Learned Cardinality Estimation 2024 SIGMOD 5.3577504e-05
8,861 Optimizing the cloud? Don't train models. Build oracles! 2024 CIDR 5.355716e-05
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9,392 A Step Toward Deep Online Aggregation 2023 SIGMOD 5.2755515e-05
9,520 Experimental Analysis of Large-scale Learnable Vector Storage Compression 2024 VLDB 5.2561283e-05
9,556 CAFE: Towards Compact, Adaptive, and Fast Embedding for Large-scale Recommendation Models 2024 SIGMOD 5.2528121e-05
9,724 Approximate Sketches 2024 SIGMOD 5.2308295e-05
9,971 Athena: An Effective Learning-based Framework for Query Optimizer Performance Improvement 2025 SIGMOD 5.1845938e-05
10,028 PRICE: A Pretrained Model for Cross-Database Cardinality Estimation 2025 VLDB 5.1745962e-05
10,108 An Elephant Under The Microscope: Analyzing The Interaction Of Optimizer Components In PostgreSQL 2025 SIGMOD 5.1347137e-05
10,151 Coresets for Robust Query Optimization 2026 PODS 5.093636e-05
10,316 GenJoin: Conditional Generative Plan-to-Plan Query Optimizer that Learns from Subplan Hints 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,492 Reqo: A Comprehensive Learning-Based Cost Model for Robust and Explainable Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,851 ACE: A Cardinality Estimator for Set-Valued Queries 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,083 Graph Transformers for Query Plan Representation: Potentials and Challenges 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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18 How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? 2016 VLDB 0.00059284255
43 The Case for Learned Index Structures 2018 SIGMOD 0.00046060254
84 Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning 2019 CIDR 0.00035838391
86 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00035316107
100 LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer 2001 VLDB 0.00034385207
323 DeepDB: Learn from Data, not from Queries! 2020 VLDB 0.00021264788
365 STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram 2001 SIGMOD 0.00020041735
401 Deep Unsupervised Cardinality Estimation 2020 VLDB 0.00019092557
513 NeuroCard: One Cardinality Estimator for All Tables 2021 VLDB 0.00017190574
694 Cardinality Estimation Done Right: Index-Based Join Sampling 2017 CIDR 0.00014911698
697 Selectivity Estimation for Range Predicates using Lightweight Models 2019 VLDB 0.00014888851
873 Learning Multi-dimensional Indexes 2020 SIGMOD 0.00013481915
1,061 Are We Ready For Learned Cardinality Estimation? 2021 VLDB 0.00012369764
1,071 Lightweight Graphical Models for Selectivity Estimation Without Independence Assumptions 2011 VLDB 0.00012322342
1,464 An Efficient Bitmap Encoding Scheme for Selection Queries 1999 SIGMOD 0.00010689981
1,499 Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation: Tighter Upper Bounds for Intermediate Join Cardinalities 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010564536
1,500 Efficient Discovery of Approximate Dependencies 2018 VLDB 0.00010561098
1,503 Self-Tuning, GPU-Accelerated Kernel Density Models for Multidimensional Selectivity Estimation 2015 SIGMOD 0.000105564
1,573 Deep Learning Models for Selectivity Estimation of Multi-Attribute Queries 2020 SIGMOD 0.00010328171
1,876 Flow-Loss: Learning Cardinality Estimates That Matter 2021 VLDB 9.5717543e-05
1,988 FLAT: Fast, Lightweight and Accurate Method for Cardinality Estimation 2021 VLDB 9.3501502e-05
1,995 Database Learning: Toward a Database that Becomes Smarter Every Time 2017 SIGMOD 9.3403665e-05
2,203 Estimating Join Selectivities using Bandwidth-Optimized Kernel Density Models 2017 VLDB 8.9610447e-05
3,162 Efficiently Approximating Selectivity Functions using Low Overhead Regression Models 2020 VLDB 7.6785856e-05
3,213 Estimating Cardinalities with Deep Sketches 2019 SIGMOD 7.6328677e-05
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