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Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models

Summary: Probabilistic Relational Models (PRMs) model attribute distributions across tables and joins to estimate selectivity. Efficient DB-driven construction enables a unified select-join framework, delivering accurate, compact estimates for broad query families. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3292
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2001
Pagerank
0.00022678252
Overall Rank
274 | 98.10%
DOI
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5,717 Pre-training Summarization Models of Structured Datasets for Cardinality Estimation 2022 VLDB 6.1775295e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
75 Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling 1990 SIGMOD 0.00037396456
100 Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption 1997 VLDB 0.00034549997
120 Equi-Depth Histograms For Estimating Selectivity Factors For Multi-Dimensional Queries 1988 SIGMOD 0.00032260989
140 Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00029955359
167 Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation 1998 SIGMOD 0.000277743
212 Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets 1999 SIGMOD 0.00025045482
300 Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets 2000 VLDB 0.00022034489
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