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A Practical Theory of Generalization in Selectivity Learning

Summary: Proves learnability of signed-measure selectivity predictors and provides out-of-distribution generalization bounds beyond the PAC framework. Derives two practical strategies that empirically boost OOD selectivity accuracy and query latency while retaining in-distribution performance. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
13840
Venue
VLDB
Year
2025
Pagerank
4.2742278e-05
Overall Rank
9,811 | 31.82%
DOI
10.14778/3725688.3725708

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71 How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? 2016 VLDB 0.00059446482
100 On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results 1991 SIGMOD 0.00050033475
181 LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer 2001 VLDB 0.00036970794
203 Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning 2019 CIDR 0.00034868567
250 Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback 1994 SIGMOD 0.00030640525
512 STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram 2001 SIGMOD 0.00021385343
527 Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data 1999 SIGMOD 0.00020862475
606 DeepDB: Learn from Data, not from Queries! 2020 VLDB 0.00019251186
627 Preventing Bad Plans by Bounding the Impact of Cardinality Estimation Errors 2009 VLDB 0.00018959896
786 Exploiting Statistics on Query Expressions for Optimization 2002 SIGMOD 0.00016624743
804 An End-to-End Learning-based Cost Estimator 2020 VLDB 0.0001643674
896 Selectivity Estimation and Query Optimization in Large Databases with Highly Skewed Distributions of Column Values 1988 VLDB 0.00015486851
905 NeuroCard: One Cardinality Estimator for All Tables 2021 VLDB 0.00015423174
1,239 Selectivity Estimation for Range Predicates using Lightweight Models 2019 VLDB 0.00013091459
1,638 Cardinality Estimation in DBMS: A Comprehensive Benchmark Evaluation 2022 VLDB 0.00011050093
1,727 QuickSel: Quick Selectivity Learning with Mixture Models 2020 SIGMOD 0.00010731889
2,080 Towards a Learning Optimizer for Shared Clouds 2019 VLDB 9.5954034e-05
2,136 SASH: A Self-Adaptive Histogram Set for Dynamically Changing Workloads 2003 VLDB 9.4668797e-05
2,781 Flow-Loss: Learning Cardinality Estimates That Matter 2021 VLDB 8.1282042e-05
2,937 DSB: A Decision Support Benchmark for Workload-Driven and Traditional Database Systems 2021 VLDB 7.8552033e-05
3,236 TPC-DS, Taking Decision Support Benchmarking to the Next Level 2002 SIGMOD 7.3294564e-05
3,269 Learned Cardinality Estimation: An In-depth Study 2022 SIGMOD 7.3026051e-05
3,924 A Unified Deep Model of Learning from both Data and Queries for Cardinality Estimation 2021 SIGMOD 6.6227223e-05
3,955 Efficiently Approximating Selectivity Functions using Low Overhead Regression Models 2020 VLDB 6.5895015e-05
3,992 FactorJoin: A New Cardinality Estimation Framework for Join Queries 2023 SIGMOD 6.5519369e-05
4,413 Robust Query Driven Cardinality Estimation under Changing Workloads 2023 VLDB 6.1989918e-05
5,405 ALECE: An Attention-based Learned Cardinality Estimator for SPJ Queries on Dynamic Workloads 2024 VLDB 5.5243727e-05
5,978 SafeBound: A Practical System for Generating Cardinality Bounds 2023 SIGMOD 5.2424396e-05
6,382 Sample-Efficient Cardinality Estimation Using Geometric Deep Learning 2024 VLDB 5.0835686e-05
7,118 ASM: Harmonizing Autoregressive Model, Sampling, and Multi-dimensional Statistics Merging for Cardinality Estimation 2024 SIGMOD 4.8204951e-05
7,220 Speeding Up End-to-end Query Execution via Learning-based Progressive Cardinality Estimation 2023 SIGMOD 4.7926382e-05
7,442 Selectivity Functions of Range Queries are Learnable* 2022 SIGMOD 4.7248554e-05
7,564 Modeling Shifting Workloads for Learned Database Systems 2024 SIGMOD 4.7049893e-05
8,440 PARQO: Penalty-Aware Robust Plan Selection in Query Optimization 2024 VLDB 4.505741e-05
8,695 Convolution and Cross-Correlation of Count Sketches Enables Fast Cardinality Estimation of Multi-Join Queries 2024 SIGMOD 4.461508e-05
9,690 Selectivity Estimation for Queries Containing Predicates over Set-Valued Attributes 2023 SIGMOD 4.2994116e-05
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