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Minimal Probing: Supporting Expensive Predicates for Top-k Queries

Summary: Necessary-probe principle for top-k queries with expensive predicates (external UDFs, fuzzy similarity) that defy zero-time indexing. MPro is provably optimal, parallelizable, and dramatically reduces probes versus full probing; demonstrated on real-estate and synthetic data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3424
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2002
Pagerank
0.00013769938
Overall Rank
827 | 94.33%
DOI
10.1145/564691.564731

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chang_sigmod02,
        title = {{Minimal Probing: Supporting Expensive Predicates for Top-k Queries}},
        author = {Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan and Hwang, Seung-won},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '02},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/564691.564731},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/564691.564731},
        year = {2002}
}

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